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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.
THE OCEAN AND ITS MEANING IN NATURE [caption- title] by [Desor, Pierre Édouard] - 1849
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THE OCEAN AND ITS MEANING IN NATURE [caption- title]
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Netherlands. Greenville Collins. 1753: Original 18th Century, Hand Coloured Sea Chart. 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 es
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The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
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London: John Murray, 1839 3rd edition, (1st published 8 years earlier in 1831), in contemporary full leather binding with 6 black and white plates. Classed as poor because the boards are adrift, there are loose preliminaries (at one point one was attached with sellotape) and there is browning, particularly where the plates have offset to tissue guards and text. There is a signature for John ?Slater Harrison, dated 1839 to a preliminary.Remaining contents nice and clean. There is light brown toning to paper.
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MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR, ACCOMPANIED WITH A REPORT OF THE CANAL COMMISSIONERS AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS, READ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 27, 1838
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Harrisburg, PA: Printer, Boas & Coplan. Very Good+. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes in one. Message from the Governor and Report of the Canal Commissioners 1839. 146pp. Annual Report of the Canal Commissioners . 1840. 249pp. Canal Commissioners Transmitted to the Governor.1841 149pp. James Wallace, Printer. Report of the Canal Commissioners.1842. 87pp. Rebound in clean brown buckram cloth with gilt title on spine. Twenty-five fold-out reports, tables and charts. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact . Statements, Estimates, Tonnage Reports, Name of Routes and Canal Tolls. Railroads. An amazing amount of facts and details Re: canals and railroads , Philadelphia Railway, Franklin Lines, Allegheny Railroad, Gettysburg Railway and Columbia Railroad. Pennsylvania; Fold out Reports; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 631 pages .
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The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models
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Naval Institute Press, 2013-02-15. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x0. Name on inside cover/ title page. Additional pages appear to be clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Dust jacket is clean and bright, shows some crease on back cover, some edge and shelf wear from normal use/storage. No rips, tears or stains. Seaforth Publishing, 2012. Thank you for shopping with us!
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Waterway Guide Atlantic ICW 2019: Intracoastal Waterway: Norfolk, Va to St. Johns River, Fl
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Waterway Guide, 2018-11-01. Paperback. Good. 10x9x1. Interior pages and maps are clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Cover in good condition, some edge and shelf wear from normal use. Binding is solid. Ships in box quickly and with care. Currently OOP (out of print). Waterway Guide Atlantic ICW 2019: Intracoastal Waterway: Norfolk, Va to St. Johns River, Fl. Thank you for shopping with us!
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THE SALVAGE OF THE CENTURY
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Florida: Best Publishing Co.. Near Fine. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0941332799 . Clean glossy pictorial paper covered boards. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Color & B/W photograph illustrations. Contents: First salvage operation; Arctic Conveys of WWII; Search for the Edinburgh; Striking gold; History of the Conception; Atmospheres of pressure; Helium; Salvage documents. Edited by Andy Nordhoff and Jim Joiner. Text and layout by Dawna Argenbright. Nautical; Color & B/W ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 198 pages .
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The Bligh Notebook: Rough Account, Lieutenant Wm. Bligh's Voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the Ship to Tofua & from Thence to Timor, 28 April to 14 June 1789 with a Draft List of the Bounty Mutineers Facsimile Edition in Two Volumes
by Bligh, William;Bach, John
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Canberra, ACT, Australia: National Library of Australia, 1986. Two volumes plus 3 facsimile sheets in custom made cloth case. Volume I = The Facsimile:- small full leather with gilt decoration and marbled endpapers. Volume II = The Transcription:- Quarter leather with gilt title to spine. 223 pages with b/w illustrations. Also includes 3 facsimile sheets of the names and descriptions of the mutineers. . Limited Edition (Number 387 of 500) . Near Fine.
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STATE OF NEW YORK, REPORT ON THE BARGE CANAL FROM THE HUDSON RIVER TO THE GREAT LAKES FEBRUARY 12, 1901 (PART 1 ONLY)
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Albany, N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes, part 1 . Text and tables; part 2. Maps and profiles. PART ONE ONLY. Clean black cloth with gilt decorated spine. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. (i-x) 1020pp. Illustrated with 5 fold-out plans, 2 of which are mended with Document repair tape at folds. Plus numerous tables and index.. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Prior owner ink stamp first & last pages. New York Canals ; Tables, fold out plates; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1020 pages .
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Fishermen's Ballads and Songs of the Sea
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Gloucester: Procter Brothers, 1874. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Very good, despite stained covers and damaged spine. Internally very good, and completely intact. Sewn, light card covers. Illustrations throughout. 184 pages plus 20 pages of publisher's ads. Scarce..
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La Marine: Arsenaux, Navires, Equipages, Navigation, Atterages, Combats
by Eugene Pacini
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Profusely illustrated review of the French Navy in the 19th century with engraved title page, 8 finely handcolored plates of men in uniform and 1 of flags of the Nautical Powers, 22 full-page steel engravings of ships and maritime scenes, and over 100 engravings and vignettes in the text by Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio. 240 pp, 31 plates, text in French.The costume plates are handcolored lithographs by the famous Pauquet Brothers after illustrations by Andre Castan, A. Gusman, P. Goyer, Louis, etc., and show ranks from Admiral to Matelot. The steel plates by de Tournemine, E. Isabey, Morel-Fatio, etc., show famous French ships of the line, nautical scenes, historical events.The vignettes by Morel-Fatio show many different types of vessels as well as life on board sailing ships, in the rigging, on deck and below decks. Condition: Covers a little frayed, binding tight, ex-library stamp Marinens Bibliotek on frontis and barcode on front endpaper, some slight browning and foxing throughout. Antoine Leon…
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Adventures on Land and Sea with CD
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Solid binding, clean interiors free of any markings. Light shelwear to bottom corner. tiny crease on the edge of page 115. Includes a CD rom of photos. 169 pages. Nonfiction. Sailing. Mountaineering. 0.25" X 7" X 10" 0.7cm X 18cm X 25.5cm Author describes three different adventures he went on: trekking in Nepal on a path along Annapurna in 1981, sailing a small catamaran along the New England Coast in 1983, and as crew on a replicate of James Cook's square rigged sailing ship Endeavor from Bermuda to the West Indies in 1998. There are black and white photos illustrating the text and a CD containing additional bonus photos of the voyages.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Pirates of the Southern Coast
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Lighthouse Publications, 2002. Oversize Paperback. FINE. As new- gift quality! 24 pages of factual information on Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, "Black Sam" Bellamy, "Calico Jack" Rackham, Charles Vane, Mary Read ann Anne Bonny illustrated with fine art and photos of artifacts on high quality, glossy paper. 0.9
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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The Bone People
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Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).
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S.S. ILE DE FRANCE -- "the Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic
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NY: French Line, 1949. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 20pp; illustrated throughout from photographs and full-color watercolor drawings by Richard Lindner. The text sets the scene as the Ship leaves New York harbor: "You are aboard the Ile de France--a completely rebuilt Ile de France." Described are: the Versailles Suite, the Chantilly Suite, the Cafe de Paris; First Class and Cabin Class dining and smoking rooms; theatre; reading room; gymnasium; tourist class salon, smoking room and bar. A 24-inch centerspread from a Lindner painting shows the Ile de France in full color. 12" x 8.25" Originally launched in 1927, the S.S. Ile de France was converted to a troopship in 1941. In 1947, the ship was returned to France, rebuilt, and launched on her second maiden voyage in 1949. This brochure celebrates the post-war, transatlantic Ile de France.
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Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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The Country Of The Pointed Firs
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Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."
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Pacific Ocean - Fiji Islands to Samoa Islands
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Interesting vintage nautical map of the Pacific Ocean, from Fiji Island in the east to Samoan Island in the west. The map also shows Tonga and a few other islands in the South Pacific.Printed in London by Admiralty and under the supervision of the British Royal Navy. Size: 104 x 71 cmCondition: Lines of folding, some wrinkles, in very good condition overall.
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