London: John Murray, 1859. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 403, [3] ads; 14 engraved plates and 1 folding facsimile, 2 folding maps and folding map by John Arrowsmith in rear cover pocket); occasional spotting, hinges cracked, joints and extremities rubbed, else good in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on..... More
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Cambridge: published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 393, [1]; frontispiece portrait, large folding map in rear cover pocket, 5 full-page maps, 5 full-page illustrations; previous owner's bookplate on rear endpaper, first leaf with bottom margin cropped, else near fine in..... More
Philadelphia: published by B. B. Hopkins and Co. and sold by W. P. Farrand, no. 170, Market-Street. Printed by T. & G. Palmer, Market-Street, 1807. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 275, [1], 40 (explanation of the tables), 16, 15*-16*, 17-220 (tables), [4] advertisement and directions to the binder; 7 engraved plates;..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Christmas, 1931. The Lakeside Classics edition (29th in the series), 12mo, pp. xl, 384; frontispiece portrait, facsimile of the original title-page (Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America... London... 1801), and 1 folding map;..... More
London: Colburn & Co., 1852. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. x, x*-xi*, 288, 16 (ads); ix, [1], 292, 24, [2] ads; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine; spines very slightly faded, else near fine. British naval captain's observations on America (he traveled extensively along the east coast..... More
London: Whittaker & Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1892. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 304; errata slip tipped in; folding frontispiece, 14 folding plans and plates, 65 wood-engravings in the text, a number full-page; slightest cracking of front hinge, one folding plate with fore-margin just a little ragged, else a fine..... More
Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1897. First collected edition, 8vo, pp. x, 314; original blue cloth; vignette of a battleship stamped in gilt on the upper cover; gilt lettering on spine; 2 folding maps; spine extremities slightly scuffed; otherwise very good. A collection of articles published from 1890-1897 regarding American..... More
Newport, (R.I.): printed by Wm. & J.H. Barber, for the Society, 1819. 8vo, pp. 24; engraved frontispiece by Fairman of Providence (marred by ink stains); full contemporary calf, worn; small blank piece lacking from title leaf; stain on early blank leaves. Contains a list of the members from 1752 to..... More
[Philadelphia]: published by "the Religious Tract Society of Philadelphia," and sold at their depository, no. 8, South Front-Street. Wm. Bradford, agent, 1819. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 12; removed from binding; wrappers perished; light foxing; very good. Early ownership inscription at the top of the first leaf, "Miss Hunkle." A...... More
Seattle: Shorey Book Store, [1974]. Facsimile edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. 304, [8]; illustrated throughout; fine in original yellow pictorial wrappers. An extract from the Annual Report of the U.S. National Museum, first published in 1900. Ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxiv, [1], 26-360; full-page map and 3 diagrams in the text (identified as plates I-IV), full page table, and 9 folding maps and tables at the back depicting a vertical section of the Atlantic, depth chart, paths of hurricanes, sea drifts and..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. 8vo, pp. [8], 415; pictorial endpapers and title-p., fine copy in the dust-jacket. More
Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes [et al.], 1825. First edition, thin 12mo, pp. 78; very good copy in later calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; nice copy. One of one of the most famous of all sea disasters. The text is signed "Servatus," generally identified as Sir Duncan McGregor, a major of..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Third edition, 4to, pp. 28 (ads), [3] 312, [2]; near fine in original blue cloth. More
Washington DC & London: Smithsonian Institution Press, [2002]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 200; illustrations throughout, much in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. This is Mead's personal copy but without signature or bookplate. He is the Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. More
Portland: The Portland Transcript, May 25, 1850. Folio, complete issue, removed from binding, else very good. Nearly a column and a half of text from Chapter 92, "The Last of the Jacket." The novel was published in New York by Harpers on March 21, 1850. More
Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Bogota: Editorial Bruguera, [1960]. Third edition thus (first printing of this edition was 1956), small 8vo, pp. 255, [1]; illustrated title page, 62 full-page composite illustrations telling the story in comic strips separate from the text; pressure stamp of Barbara Johnson at base of title page; all..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1847. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], [17]-389, [1], [xv]-xxiii (ads), [1], 16 (ads); integral frontispiece map; covers spotted, text lightly foxed as usual, top of spine a little chipped; a good, firm copy in orig. slate blindstamped cloth, gilt ship stamped central on..... More
New York: Wiley & Putnam; London: John Murray, 1847. First edition, fourth printing of the revised edition of the author's first book, 2 vols. in 1, as issued, 8vo, pp. xiv, 149, [5], [151]-307, [1], plus 9 pages of ads paged [15]-xxiii; integral frontispiece map; recent quarter calf-backed marbled boards..... More
London, Bombay, Sydney: Constable and Co., Ltd, 1922-24. Edition limited to 750 copies (this, no. 460), signed by the publisher with initials, 16 volumes, 8vo, title pages printed in blue and black, original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines; several spines unevenly sunned, bookseller's description tipped to front free endpaper of volume..... More
Providence: Ferrin & Hammond, printers, n.d., [ca. 1875]. 32mo, pp. 71, [1]; numerous wood engravings in the text, several full-page; original pink pictorial front wrapper a little worn, spine a little chipped; rear wrapper wanting; mostly very good and sound. Merrill has a full-page ad in Edwards' 1866 Chicago directory..... More
Philadelphia: March 25, 1862. An unrecorded Civil-War era broadside, approx. 12" x 9¼", generally fine condition. With two ornamental woodcuts of sailing ships, and printed in wood and metal types. According to the Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, the USS Gemsbock was a 622-ton bark armed with four 8-inch guns..... More
Bruxelles: Office de Publicité, 1878. First edition, 8vo, pp. 36; 4 engraved double-page plates at thje back (loose, but present; original printed gray wrappers; the gutta-percha binding notwithstanding, a near fine copy. OCLC locates only one copy in The Netherlands. More
n.p., n.d. [London, ca. 1914. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [8]; [6]; original printed wrappers; the second a little spotted, else fine. Offprints from articles that appeared in the Mariner's Mirror. More
Pangbourne: reprinted from the Log of the Nautical College, (ca. 1923). Author's own copy with his signature and address written inside the front wrapper; 8vo, 24pp., 44 illus. in text; fine in original blue printed wrappers. WITH: 4-page autograph letter, signed and dated 3/IX/32 by Geoffrey Callender of the Society..... More
