Pangbourne: reprinted from the Log of the Nautical College, (ca. 1923). 8vo, 24pp., 44 illustrations in the text; fine in original blue printed wrappers. More

Washington City: printed and published by William Duane, and sold by him at his book-stores, at Washington City and Philadelphia, 1805. First edition of the first separately printed marine dictionary published in the United States; 12mo, pp. iv, [2], 256; 8 composite engraved plates showing 120 illustrations; recent calf-backed marbled..... More

Cambridge: Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 347, [1]; frontispiece portrait, facsimile title page from the first edition of 1609, 1 plate and 2 folding maps; fine copy in original blue cloth, in a very good dust jacket that shows one tear at..... More

Bristol, R.I., [et al.]: 1841 - 1850. Folio, 198 pages; mild dampstaining to the first 15 leaves, pages 2-5 in light blue ink, the balance in sepia; completely legible except at the tops of pages [3-5] where the damp obscures; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, the covers loose, but present. Several..... More

New York: International Yacht Publishing Co., [1894]. 2 volumes, large 4to, pp. [8], 366; [367]-692; 87 photogravure plates of yachts by Frederiksen, Bruce, Bolles, Stebbins, and Johnson, (numbered I - LXVIII, without plate LXI which was not published); plus 13 more photogravure plates of yacht clubs, 42 half-tone portrait plates..... More

Boston: published by F. Gleason, 1 1-2 Tremont Row, 1845. 8vo, pp. [5], 10-100; 4 full-page woodcuts, decorative initials; text in double column; removed from binding and disbound, tears on gutters and fore-edge repaired with tape on most leaves, large chip in one woodcut crudely repaired, (the image not affected)..... More

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., [ca. 1860]. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, [2], xiv, [15]-414, [4] ads; engraved frontis, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and gilt..... More

London: George Newnes, 1898. 2 volumes, 8vo; 1 color plate, frontispieces and about 120 full page and text illustrations, large folding map of the Arctic regions, slight rubbing at extremities, light foxing to folding map, generally a fine, very bright copy in what must be one of the most celebrated..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1909. First edition, 2 volumes, large 4to, original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g.; ex-MHS, with their bookplates and stickers on spines, slightly worn. More

[Washington, D.C. 1868]. 8vo, pp. 8; self-wrappers; previous folds in thirds, else very good. Consists of reports to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, by the commanding officer, Capt. J. W. A. Nicholson, and the Board of Engineers. Cornell, Rochester, LC, Navy Dept., Western Reserve, and Huntington in OCLC. A...... More

London: Richard Bentley, 1847. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 469, [3]; viii, 534; vignette title pages printed in red and black, 2 frontispieces; tops of spines cracked, else a fine, largely unopened copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spines. Volume I...... More

Tokyo: Society of Naval Architects, 1929. First edition, large, slim 8vo, pp. [6], [61]- 114, [1]; vignette title page, 4 plates (1 in color) and 9 illustrations in the text; generally fine in original printed beige paper-covered boards. Issued as Part IV, Section 2 of Vol. V in the publisher's..... More

New York: Redfield, 1854. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxii, [11]-484; half brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g.; joints and extremities rubbed and worn; a good, sound copy. The author spent much time in Mexico and New Orleans, met Audubon and Henry Clay, reports on the New Madrid earthquake..... More