Search Results: Titles starting with B from Ten Pound Island Book Co.

Princeton Junction, NJ: ((Valuable Book Group), 2005. 4to. 107 pp. Duotone and b/w ills. "A brief history, bibliography and collector's guide." Bound in printed wrappers. Very good condition

London: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1889. "The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance. Handbook for Travellers." A VG HC copy. . 16 x 11 cm. 386 pp. b/w, color maps and diagrams.

New York: Bonanza, (1930). With lines, plans, and illustrations of specific vessels, tracing development of this type. Reprint of the 1930 original. About fine in dj. . 27.5 cm. 192 pp. b/w plates.

Worcester,: Isaac Sturtevant, for Remark Dunnell, 1814. Contains many first hand accounts, impressments, treatments of prisoners, etc. A useful piece of American propaganda especially as related to Indian attacks and episodes afloat. Smith II, 494. Howes B-112. There was a prior edition, published in Troy in 1813. Bound in original calf over boards, with paper covering on boards tidily removed. Spine label lacking.. 12mo. 192 pp.

Philadelphia: Boies Penrose, 1929. Transcription of Carterets narrative with notes and introduction by noted historian Boies Penrose. #105 in a limited edition of 150 copies. With complimentary card of Penrose tipped in. Very good condition in publisher's green cloth over boards with gold cover lettering.. 16 x 22 cm. 41, (1 colophon) pp. b/w plates, facsimiles.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1964. Best work on the subject. Richly illustrated. VG in publisher's cloth, lightly soiled.. 28 cm. 242 pp. b/w photos, ills.

(Brookline, MA): Privately Printed, 1913. 52 pp. b/w plates. With twenty photos of vessels and captains not included in the pagination. The text includes a list of sailings from New England to San Francisco, 1849-1856. Haskell Mass. Bib. 2029. A scarce and interesting book. A couple of worn spots at the bottom of the front board. A good copy.

(Brookline, MA): Privately Printed, 1913. 52 pp. b/w plates. With twenty photos of vessels and captains not included in the pagination. The text includes a list of sailings from New England to San Francisco, 1849-1856. Haskell Mass. Bib. 2029. A scarce and interesting book. A very good copy, inscribed by author.

(New York): Basic Books, (2003). First ed. "the Allies' Submarine Fight Against Hitler's Gray Wolves of the Sea." Fine in dj.. 23.5 cm. 304 pp. b/w plates.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1941). Brief history of earlier struggles against pirates, freebooters, and hostile navies, but mostly about British merchantmen in WW II. VG in tattered dj.. 19cm., 160 pp. b/w plates.

Conway Maritime Press.. 'The creation of the steam battlefleet 1815-1860". V G. in D J.. 24 cm. 161 pp. B/W ills.

Boston: The Excursionists, 1871. A trip aboard the steamer "New Brunswick" for a summer vacation by hundreds of Massachusetts residents. "For four successive years a party of two or three hundred of the business people of Worcester have enjoyed aweek or two... making a steamboat trip to different places of interest..." With lists of the officers of the "New Brunswick (their steamer that year) officers of the club and excursionists themselves and where they lived. In 1871, they cruised Down East, and all the way up to St. John, and there is a 50-page narrative of their adventures, which included visiting Penobscot Indians. Inscribed on the front blank by Asa Bullard, president of the excursionists. Very good condition. 18.5 cm. vi-69 pp.

Washington DC: GPO, 1889. "With notes on beam-trawling in other European countries." Collins was an important man in the US Fishery Commission, contributing dozens of articles - including a short biography of the Gloucester hero Howard Blackburn - over a period of three decades of his employment. He was also an experienced seaman, and captained the Fishery research vessel "Grampus" during tests on the practicability of beam-trawling in the American commercial fisheries. An early study of this environmentally unfriendly form of fishing that, for a while, dominated the industry. This is an offprint from the 1887 "Bulletin of Commercial Fisheries" in its own dedicated binding - brown cloth with gold lettering, showing some surface wear. Scarce in this original format, with only reprints available.. 29.5 cm. pp. 289-407. b/w plates and ills. in text.

Dorset Press., (1981). V G. in D J.. 31.5 cm. 271 pp. B/W plates

New York: Barnes & Noble, (1981). Life aboard the last great ships. With many of those vessels pictured, inside and out. Very good in dust jacket.. 32 cm. 271 pp. b/w plates.

New York: Beautiful Bermuda Publishing Company, 1946. xl, 632 pp. plus illustrated ads, folding b/w and color maps. 9th edition of a book first published in 1902. With a folding b/w railway maps and a color folding map of Bermuda. Hallett p. 23. Very good condition in original cloth binding. (Another copy with spine sunned, and a 1947 10th edition in a chipped dust jacket.)

conway Maritime Press., (1990). "Development of ship design ,propulsion and armament in the Royal navy, 1815-1860". V G. in D J.. 28.5 cm. 217 pp. B/W ills.

NY : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1940. Illustrated by Ruths husband Richard, and INSCRIBED BY BOTH RUTH AND RICHARD HOLBERG. First ed. VG, dj.. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. 88 pp. Color and b/w ills.

London: Hutchinson, (1981). History of this line through the eyes of travelers, written by a former employee. VG, dj.. 23.5 cm., 147, (1) pp. b/w plates.

Ten 8 x 10 and 30 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 black and white photographs of naval officers and enlisted men in Bermuda. About half of these contain some scenery of local interest. All are identified on back.