London: Macmillan, 1983. First edition, 8vo, 233pp., 50 illus. on 12 plates; fine in the dust-jacket. The story of the 1983 challengers, and Australia's ultimate success. More

Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate printer, 1854. Slim 8vo, pp. 147; original blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; a good, sound copy with an inscription on the title-page, "E. J. Cooke from Hon. F. Gillette, U. S. Senate, Jan. 1855." Francis Gillette (1807-79) was a Senator from Connecticut..... More

[London]: Royal Yachting Association and the Royal Ocean Racing Club, 1979. Small folio, pp. 76; text printed in double column; tables, charts, illustrations in the text; some soiling and wear; good and sound in original pictorial wrappers. The results of the official inquiry into the deadliest ocean race on record..... More

New York: September 5, 1821. Folio, on recto and verso of a single sheet, in ink. Charles Francis was the owner of the Middletown, Rhode Island brig Francis, which had been seized by H.M.S. Antelope near Antigua in the West Indies, "and carried forcibly into the port of St. Johns..... More

Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, for G Steidel, 1762. 4to, pp. [6], 91, [1]; 4 engraved copperplates (2 folding); bound with, as often: the French version of the same: Relation de la Expedition... Birmingham, 1762, pp. [6], 91, [1]; together in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco labels..... More

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992. 4to, pp. 192; illustrated throughout; black cloth, fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. More

New York: J. P. Wright, printer, 146 Fulton Street, 1853. 12mo, pp. [3]-14; original printed salmon wrappers; vertical crease, else fine. Urges Congress to "pass a law authorizing and directing ship-owners to employ apprentices [who] will perform the same duties as the men, and in the course of a few..... More

London: Winchester Publications Limited, [1949]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 271, [1]; original teal cloth boards, spine sunned, edges rubbed, prelims slightly foxed; good copy. With a lengthy inscription from the author to members of the Royal Naval Club on front free endpaper, with Granville's corrections to the text in..... More

[but actually London: William Strahan: 1780?]. Folio broadsheet (17½" x 11"); 3 horizontal folds, the paper a bit dusty, else very good. With its original separately printed title leaf, folded into a wrap-around sleeve. In January 1776, Captain Bromedge wrote to Vice Admiral Schuldham regarding his boarding of the ship..... More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. 8vo, pp. 300; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, light wear along jacket edges, else fine. Publisher's advertisements on back jacket flap and cover. More

Brest: chez Ve J.-B. Lefournier, 1839. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [12], 531, [1]; [4], 564, [2]; engraved folding plate (with an early rebacking and a bit wormed); contemporary and likely original brown roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed and worn, but sound. Ex- St. Paul Seminary, with their 19th century rubberstamps, old..... More

New York: John C. Rankin Co., 1909. 12mo, pp. 20; printed on blue paper; self-wrappers; contemporary rubber stamp for the St. Paul, Minnesota travel agent J.D. Zook at head of upper cover, else very good and sound. Special emphasis on cruises aboard the "Magnificent Twin-Screw Steamer 'Oceana,' a vessel of..... More

[San Francisco: published by American-Japanese Publishing Assn. printed by Kudo Printing Co., Tokyo, n.d., [ca. 1950]. Reprint of the first edition in English, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. [4], iii, [3], 346, [6]; [6], 254, [6], v, [1]; 7 plates (actually 6, as 1 is not a plate), 6 pp. of..... More