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

New Bedford: Dartmouth Historical Society, 1974. Catalog of a show at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, 23 May--21 July 1974. With an essay by Elton Hall. Fine condition in illustrated stiff wrappers. . 4to. 113 pp. b/w plates.

Boston, MA : David R. Godine, (2006). Story of the great fishermens races - Gloucesters finest versus the Bluenose, 1920 - 1938. Exciting text illustrated with 51 vintage photos of the races. A typically beautiful production by publisher Godine. As new in dust jacket.. 26 cm. 250 pp. Sepia-tinted photo plates.

New York: Henry Holt, 1960. xiv, (2), 240 pp. b/w plates, endpaper maps. Cook vs. Peary, 1908-9. First edition, with preface by Vilhjalmar Stefansson. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket.

New York: Derrydale Press, (1933). Unpaginated, about 150 preprinted log book pages. Preface by Herbert Stone, editor of "Yachting Magazine." What appears to be a standard yachting log book with partially printed pages is actually quite a scarce and collectible Derrydale Press yachting item. This particular copy is unused and, aside from a lightly sunned backstrip, in pristine condition.

New York: George Grady Press, 1943. Second edition, published same year as the first. Intended for downed fliers and seamen in WW II this book utilizes navigation methods used for centuries by the Polynesians. (I never understood how "downed fliers" could make use of such a cumbersome package.) Gatty won fame as Wiley Post's navigator on his around-the-world flight in 1931. With folding map, tables, and ruler intact. Very good - fine condition in lightly worn illustrated slipcase, and scarce thus.. 19.5 cm. (4), 152 pp. b/w plates, folding map with spot color and star chart on verso, folding tables.

New York: Paine & Burgess, 1845. First edition. "Including a Canoe Voyage up the River Panuco and Researches Among the Ruins of Tamaulipas &c." With extra lithographed title page. Sabin 30570. Ex-library Harvard College. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gold cover and backstrip decoration. Spine ends chipped. Foxed throughout.. 11 x 19 cm. xvii-216 pp. b/w wood engravings and sepia-toned lithographs

New York: J. & H. Langley, 1843. "Eighth edition with nearly fifty illustrations in lithotint. The extraordinary popularity which has attended publication of the above work, has induced the Publishers to issue the present cheap edition, with the view of rendering it accessible to all classes of readers..." Well, that was then. Now, hard copies of this popular work abound. This "cheap" set is in wrappers, and is the only copy thus bound currently on offer. Marginal staining in volume I. Volume II lacks back wrapper and most of backstrip.. Two volumes, 14 x 23 cm. 160-304 pp. b/w plates and illustrations.

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.. Very good condition with D.J.. 15cm. X 23.5cm. XVI. 540 pp. B/W Ills.

London.: Stevens Son and Stiles, n.d. (1927). Treasure chest of rarities offered by this legendary American expat bookseller. Some of the topics covered include American Revolution, French and Indian War, Iceland and Greenland, Indians, Jesuit Relations, New England, Newfoundland, New York, Pirates, and War of 1812. With over 2000 items offered, this catalog is also an excellent bibliography of books we can no longer afford. The 10 pages of Stevens Sons other publications are equally interesting. Solidly rebound in black buckram. Covers bound in. Very good condition. . 25 cm. vii, 578, (10 publisher's ads) pp. b/w facsimiles, folding plate.

A history of classical furniture created by Isaac Vose. VG copy in fine DJ.. 26 x 32 cm. 293 pp. color, b/w photographs and illustrations.

A fascinating lot. Where else will you find articles such as "Victuals and Vermin: Life on board the Sea Venture in 1609." Unbound but retained in clip binder. Very good condition.. 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. Newsletters stapled, magazines bound. About 200 pp. b/w plates, maps and ills.

Bermuda: Pompano Publications, (1992). First edition. Sound historical text and vintage images. Very Good condition in publisher's illustrated wrappers.. 4to, 28 cm. viii, 93 pp. b/w plates.

(Toronto): McClelland and Stewart, (1974). The line of sail and steamships that dominated Canadian shipping for nearly a century. First ed. VG, dj. . 23 cm. 222 pp. b/w plates.

New York: A.S. Barnes, (1959). "Sailing adventures down east." This was David Cheever's copy. Tipped onto the front pastedown is a typed letter, signed, from author Robert "Peabo" Peabody. It begins, "Whatever your reasons I am flattered that you should address me by my nickname." Light cover wear. Good condition.. 21.5 cm. 268 pp. Color frontispiece, b/w plates, endpaper maps.

Mystic, CT.: Flat Hammock Press., (2007).. Very good condition. Inscribed " The rumrunner turned national hero whose liquor and fair dealing perpetuated the phrase ' Its the real McCoy'. ". 15 X 23 cm. 224 pp. B/W plates and Ills.

London: Leadenhall Press, 1891. Folio. 97 pp. with 12 song sheets inserted. b/w ills. Traditional sea ballads illustrated with line drawing reminiscent of old wood engravings, with handsomely printed song sheets inserted throughout the book, the whole production printed by fine printers Leadenhall Press. Contents in excellent condition. Original binding of half vellum over printed boards is worn.

D. Appleton and Company., 1916.. "whaling past and present". V G.. 20.5 cm. 250 pp. B/W plates, plans, maps and ills.

Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, (1985). Essays on the Boston School, with more than 160 color plates. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.. 4to. viii, 216 pp. Color and b/w plates.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1948. "Being an Account of Raphael Semmes's Cruise in the C.S.S. Sumter" Gosnell's selection of Semmes's "Memoirs." First edition, very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket.. 23 cm. (10), 218 pp. b/w plates.

London: Ray Society, 1866. An important text in the history of marine biology. Contains the first English translations from the Swedish and Norwegian of the articles On the Greenland Right Whale, On the Species of Orca Inhabiting the Northern Seas, On Pseudorca Crassidens, and Synopsis of the Cetaceous Mammalia of Scandinavia. See Jenkins p. 98. Bound in original boards with paper cover label. Laid in is a 2-page ALs by editor W.H. Flower to Canon Tristram, an early supporter of Darwin's theories. Some water staining to plates, but a very good copy, with most text pages unopened. Bound as issued in stiff wraps with paper cover label. . 37 cm. viii, 312 pp. 6 full-page b/w litho plates.