Washington, D.C. Sept. 6, 1858. Folio broadside (approx. 17" x 11"), text in double column beneath the running head; several small diagrams representing the hulls of ships, highlighted with blue and red directionals; previous folds in sixths, 3 short breaks at the margins; in all, very good. This broadside reprints..... More

New York: Quadrangle Books, [1975]. First edition, 4to, xiv & 177pp., extrensively illustrated throughout, map endpapers; a very fine copy in the dust-jacket. Day to day account of the 1974 series in which the American entry, Courageous (skipped by Ted Hood), defeated the Australian entry, Southern Cross, in four straight..... More

Shanghai: Temperance Union, 1895. First book edition, small 4to, pp. 180; text in double column, black & white photographic illustrations; tan boards with black lettering & illustration of a boat on front cover, brown pebbled cloth spine. Some darkening to boards, wear to extremities, but a very good copy overall..... More

Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, [2019]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, 337, [7]; text in Japanese; charts, graphs and a few illustrations in the text; original blue publisher's cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian..... More

Newport News, Virginia: Published for The Mariners Museum by the University Press of Virginia, [1974]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 175; black & white photographic illustrations; fine in original charcoal cloth gilt, pictorial dust jacket. More

Seoul: Seoul Taehakkyo Ch'ulp'anbu, 1994. First edition, small 4to, pp. xxii, 374; illustrated throughout with drafting plans, sketches, photographs, facsimiles, etc., much in color; text in Korean with an English precis at the back; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More

Thessaloniki: Columbia University Press, 1988. 8vo, pp. xvi, 410; printed paper wrapper; slightly musty, text clean and sound. No. 42 on Atlantic Studies on Society in Change. Papers from the XVIIth Conference on War and Society in East Central Europe, 6-8 June 1985. More

Tokyo: Poplar Co., 2004. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; text in Japanese; color illustrations throughout; illustrated boards; fine in fine dust jacket and bellyband. A photographic depiction of the whaling boats in the Indonesian village of Lamalera, aimed at a juvenile audience. More

n.p. Minnetonka Yacht Club, [1982]. 8vo, pp. 191; profusely illus. throughout; jacket; near fine. A mostly pictorial review of the Minnetonka Yacht Club. More

Erfurt und Leipzig: Friedrich Kirchner, 1906. Large 8vo, pp. 604, [2]; chromolithograph frontispiece, chromolithograph plate of flags and signals, 3 double-page color plates of ships' hulls and cross-sections, double-page color map, 3 other black & white plates, double-page plate printed on 2 sides showing the ships of the German navy..... More

New York: October 9, 1809. 4to, blank integral leaf attached; previous folds, very good. Leonard (?-1832) writes a favorable recommendation for a former shipmate. "This is to certify that I am personally acquainted with Dr. George C. Quackenbos of this city & that he has borne a commission as Surgeon..... More

New York: Edwin Levick, n.d., [ca. 1910]. Each print measures 7¾" x 10", each mounted on card and bound into an album. The album has cracked hinges and joints and the binding is fair at best, but the photographs are generally fine. Levick was one of the great marine photographers..... More

NY: Doubleday, [1972]. First edition, lg. 8vo, pp. 288; illus. throughout; about fine in the jacket. The famed Challenger Expedition making the beginnings of modern oceanography. More