Fishermen's Ballads and Songs of the Sea by Procter Brothers - 1874

Macmillan and Company, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Macmillian, 1882. 756 pp. Green cloth. Hardcover. Harvard University Peabody Museum book plate inside cover. Scuff on cover. 10 fold outs, 2 in color. Front hinge weakened. Ships daily.

Osaka: Osaka Shosen Kaisha, 1931. Quarto. 724 pages. Many b/w illustrations and full-colour maps. Many interesting advertisements with spot colour. Thumb index. Original pictorial embossed and decorated blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Coloured titling on upper board. Top and bottom edges gilt. Blue art paper endpapers. Very minor insect hole on front free endpaper. A beautiful copy. OVERSEAS BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This is a very heavy book (about 3.7kgs) so please ask us for an exact price for shipping to your country.. 18th Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Devonport: Swiss & Co., 1927. "With the commencement of the War the Corps took up at once the traditional role, which it has performed in every war for the last three hundred years, and for which indeed it had been originally raised in 1664, that is to say the reinforcement of the personnel of the Royal Navy." A highly detailed account and a 'mine' of information. 492pp with halftone plates and plans in black and white line. Seven folding maps in colour enclosed in a pocket to lower paste down. Covers slightly soiled and corners lightly rubbed otherwise very good throughout. . Single Volume Edition. Buckram Spine Cloth Boards. Very Good. 280x220mm.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. SCARCE in the First Edition and in a fine contemporary binding. Handsomely bound in half calf over marbled boards, the back with five raised bands and richly gilt, page edges marbled to match boards, the binding unsigned. Armorial bookplate and 1892 Christmas gift bookplate of Henley front paste down. Near Fine, tiny rubs at top corners, end pages only are lightly foxed, interior quite clean and fresh. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

John W. Amerman. New York. 1864. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 5.8 inches). 80pp. Large fold out map of the main steam ship lines of the world with the proposed American lines, at the rear. Tan paper wraps, printed in black. Circular blind stamp of Bibliotheque de Deep sea salvage on the title page. Front cover has 'Editor of the Herald' written in ink across the top. Edges rubbed and bumped with some loss to the bottom of the spine. Corners creased and chipped a little but overall a very good example of this scarce Civil War time publication. Only one copy located on Worldcat, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Collins, Capt. Greenville: Netherlands, Untitled chart of Holland, Flanders and Eastern England. Ca 1753. Copper engraved chart. Size approx 600mm x 480mm. Good margins, hand coloured, good impression on heavy paper. Coast line of Flanders at Calles [Calais] to Der Scheling [Terschelling]of the West Frisian Islands and then Eastern England Margate in Kent to Burnham Flats in Norfolk. Much detail is given of the Thames estuary and Rotterdam soundings. Depth soundings and rhumb lines indicated. A compass rose is set at the centre of the Chart. Title cartouche "To the Honourable Sir john Ashby Kt. Admiral of the Blew/ This is most humbly dedicated and presented by Capt G Collins". Some age soiling to edges, one small tear, without loss and repaired to centre fold area. A scarce, attractive sea chart in good, bright condition suitable for display.

London : John Stockdale, 1798 Vol II only of this scarce 2 volume work - one of two english translations of La Perouse's voyage produced in 1798. With frontispiece by Stothard and 24 further plates/charts. (The plate list is presumably in Vol I so I can not confirm that the plates are present as listed. The work had 51 plates/maps over the 2 volumes). Detailed account of the voyage with Tables showing the course of La Boussole and L'Astrolabe. Separate section at the rear 'Substance of the Travels over the Continent, with the dispatches of La Perouse, in the Years 1787 and 1788 by M de Lesseps'. Page listing of Stockdale's poetry works at the rear. In contemporary full leather binding which is badly damaged. The boards with gilt edging and cross hatched blind tooling are complete and rescuable but the spine is missing. Page edges marbled. With bookplate of F E Baines (a local historian) and Laura Baines of Hampstead July 1890, on the front pastedown. The fep is detached and the… Read More

New York State: New York State. Very Good+. 1920. Hardcover. Clean olive green paper covered boards with cloth spine and corners. 13" oblong folio. Signed by Frank M. Williams, State Engineer. J. B. Lyon Company State Printer, Albany, N. Y. Department of State Engineer and Surveyor. Illustrated with & two maps: #1 N. Y State Barge Canal and Connected Waterways, #2 Special Canal Location, High Lift Locks and Short Levels Waterford to Crescent. New York State Barge Canal. Total of 156 full-page plates . New York State Canals. ; Drawings; Oblong Folio 13" x 19"; Unpaginated pages .

James Cahill Publishing, 2002. Hardcover in slipcase. Used - Fine / As New condition. Specially bound first edition, #451 of 600. Book is signed by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler, as well as by NUMA Co-Founder, Wayne Gronquist, and NUMA Advisory Board of Trustees members, Ralph Wilbanks (inscription) and William Shea. Book is clean and tight with virtually no shelf wear. No markings inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Washington, D.C.: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1920. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 304 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in original blue cloth with a front cover design of a three masted ship embossed in gilt. The binding is worn and shows heavy white spotting to the cloth. The inner hinges are secure, but the frontis piece is detached and chipped about the edges. Text is toned. INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf, "Mrs. Elizabeth A. Weeks / Presented by / Mr. James Sprunt / Wilmington, N.C. / Jan. 1922." There are some notations on the front pastedown. Quite scarce.