Tokyo: Hakubunsha, 1893. First edition (an earlier account - only 68 pages - was published in 1863); 8vo, pp. [2], 236; 3 lithograph plates (the Japanese castaways in a longboat with the American ship in the distance; a chart of Yokohama harbor; and the American fleet at Shimonoseki); original pictorial..... More

N.p. 1880. 32mo (approx. 5¼" x 3¼"), pp. 14, [2]; original printed green wrappers; fine. It's unclear if this is a Navy Dept. publication or a Herreshoff one. An early Herreshoff item, nonetheless. The company wasn't founded until 1878. Not in OCLC. More

Coconut Grove, Fla. M[ar]ch. 21, 1930. 8vo, approx. 30 lines and 140 words, to a Mr. Rigg regarding the building of a yacht. "[Y]ou are considering having the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. build you a duplicate of Haswell. For a fast cruiser, I have always considered Flying Cloud (and Haswell which..... More

London: printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 4, 4-I - 4-IV, 5-25, [1]; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; front joint cracked, cords holding; all else very good. One line is crossed out at the bottom of page 4, which reappears at the bottom of..... More

Breda: Gebroeders Nys voor Koninklijke Akademie voor de Zee- en Landmagt, 1856. Second edition, revised; 12mo, pp. 352; v-viii, [336]; recent cloth backed marbled boards; marks of readership (underlines, interlineal translation) in pencil, page 281-82 in the second (Arabic) part torn with loss of text at the lower corner, old..... More

[Newport? n.d., ca. 1750.]. Autograph manuscript approx. 9" x 7" accomplished in ink on both sides of the sheet. At the bottom of the verso in another (contemporary) hand: "This is all in the handwriting of Esek Hopkins the first Admiral of the American Navy--in the Rev. War." Light foxing..... More

New York: A.S. Barnes, [1969]. First edition, tall 8vo, 107pp., illus. throughout; fine in a slightly soiled jacket; scarce. Good history of the defending yachts, exclusively American. More

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1979. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 194; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine a bit sunned, else very good and sound. Standard bibliography and resource on shipwrecks and maritime disasters. Without a dust-jacket, as issued. More

Boston: David Clapp, 1848. First edition, 8vo, pp. 28, original printed paper wrappers; spine partially perished, upper cover starting, text clean. Ingalls was professor of anatomy, surgery and physiology at Brown University from 1811 to 1823. Cordasco 40-0702. More

Oslo: J. W. Cappelens, [1927]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 113, [3], 18 pages of photo-reproductive plates, text illustrations, publisher's green cloth gilt; spine sunned, one gathering extended, signed on title page by Frithjof Wiese who sponsored a Norwegian rescue ship of the same name in 1935; signature of marine scientist..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. First edition, 8vo, pp. 62; 1 large folding table, 1 large folding plate of the boiler, several other illustrations in the text; original printed gray wrappers; a couple of inoffensive library marks on title page recto and verso, otherwise fine. Includes data on dimensions, weight..... More

Bloomington, IN: The Raintree Press, 1980. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies (this, no. 198), 12mo, pp. [2], 95, [3]; cartographic title page printed in blue and black, vignette illustrations printed in blue; quarter Dacron® over blue paper-covered boards (the Dacron® taken from the mainsail of the Carla Mia)..... More

Edinburgh: engraved and printed by W. & A. K. Johnston, 1861. Large chart of the North Atlantic Ocean approx. 19¼" x 24¼", lightly hand-colored in outline. Central fold; all else very good. Extracted from The royal atlas of modern geography, exhibiting, in a series of entirely original and authentic maps..... More