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

New London: Samuel Green, 1820. "Being a concise, easy, and comprehensive system of navigation; calculated for the daily use of seamen, and also for an assistant to the teacher: containing plane, traverse, parallel, middle latitude, and Mercator's sailing; with all the necessary tables. concise rules are given, with a variety of examples in every part of navigation; also, a new, scientific, and very short method of correcting the dead reckoning; the rules for keeping a complete reckoning at sea..." This is the first edition of the second Practical Navigator (following Bowditch) published in the United States. Daboll was a teacher and almanac maker who wrote The Schoolmasters Assistant, the most popular mathematics text in America between 1800 and 1850. His Navigator was published two years after the authors death. It contains his method for dead reckoning which he formulated in 1799, and which method he has ever since practised, instead of the operbose, absurd, and erroneous Rules published by… Read More

New London: Samuel Green, 1820. "Being a concise, easy, and comprehensive system of navigation; calculated for the daily use of seamen, and also for an assistant to the teacher: containing plane, traverse, parallel, middle lattitude, and Mercator's sailing; with all the necessary tables. concise rules are given, with a variety of examples in every part of navigation; also, a new, scientific, and very short method of correcting the dead reckoning; the rules for keeping a complete reckoning at sea..." This is the first edition of the second Practical Navigator (following Bowditch) published in the United States. Daboll was a teacher and almanac maker who wrote The Schoolmasters Assistant, the most popular mathematics text in America between 1800 and 1850. His Navigator was published two years after the authors death. It contains his method for dead reckoning which he formulated in 1799, and which method he has ever since practised, instead of the operbose, absurd, and erroneous Rules published by… Read More

New London: Samuel Green, 1820. "Being a concise, easy, and comprehensive system of navigation; calculated for the daily use of seamen, and also for an assistant to the teacher: containing plane, traverse, parallel, middle lattitude, and Mercator's sailing; with all the necessary tables. concise rules are given, with a variety of examples in every part of navigation; also, a new, scientific, and very short method of correcting the dead reckoning; the rules for keeping a complete reckoning at sea..." This is the first edition of the second Practical Navigator (following Bowditch) published in the United States. Daboll was a teacher and almanac maker who wrote "The Schoolmasters Assistant," the most popular mathematics text in America between 1800 and 1850. His "Practical Navigator" was published two years after the authors death. It contains his method for dead reckoning which he formulated in 1799, and which method "he has ever since practised, instead of the operbose, absurd, and erroneous Rules… Read More

London: Charles Knight, 1825. xviii, 327 pp. b/w facsimile frontispiece, engraved title. Adventures and travels of this 17th century mariner, who was chaplain aboard "H.M.S. Assistance", "Bristol" and "Royal Oak", 1675-1679. These involve actions against Mediterranean and Barbary pirates with Sir John Narborough. This is the first printing of Teonge's diary, which went out of print until the 20th century. Original marbled boards with new calf backstrip and corners. Spine title and rules in gold. Bookplate of the Royal Artillery Library on front pastedown.

Brighton, Sussex UK: Teredo Books, 1982. "A complete account of all the world's projects for large passenger liners which, for one reason or another, never entered service." Fine in dj.. 24.5 cm., 348, (2) pp. b/w plates

(New York): Dutton, (2002). "The little-known world of Pirates and maritime terrorism." A modern view. Fine in dj.. 22.5 cm. 332, (1) pp. b/w maps.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. "Contribution toward a Bibliography of Writing Concerning Daniel Boone." As the subtitle implies, an explanatory introduction is followed by a bibliography with brief commentaries on each item. Burt Franklin reprint in very good condition.. 18 cm. ix. 32 pp. Clothbound

(Kobenhavn), (1980). A brilliantly illustrated overview of Danish naval vessels of the Dual Monarchy of Denmark-Norway (until 1814) and Denmark from 1690-1860, rendered in large scale plans and lines, as well as in battle and port views, all from archival sources. Detailed color photographs of museum-quality models are also included. The work focusses both on construction techniques and decorative elements. Vol. I consists of plates and historical text. Vol. II contains plans and lines of 91 vessels in folding and double page plates. Text in both volumes is in Danish, but an English Summary is included at the end of the first volume. Both vols. are in Fine condition, housed in a slipcase. The set. Color and b/w plates, many folding. Folio. 2 vols. 205 (1); 91 plates.

New York: Parents' Magazine Press, (1967). Basics of steamboat history, construction, and operation. VG, worn dj.. 18 cm., 112 pp. b/w plates.

Leiden: Theororum Haak, 1764. Rouppe was a surgeon in the Dutch navy. This is the first edition of his doctoral thesis at the University of Leiden in 1764, published in Latin. Pages 90-212 comprise a chapter titled "de Scorbuto," on scurvy, its causes and prevention. This section begins by recounting Lind's work in considerable detail, and is thus an early source validating his ideas. He also deals with shipboard sanitation, catarrh, rheumatism, venereal diseases, fevers, epilepsy, diarrhea and cancer. Marginal lining by contemporary reader, but very good condition. Bound in period mottled calf with gilt spine decoration, raised bands, and spine label. A handsome copy.. 20 cm., 338, (1 errata) pp.

New York.: The MacMillan Company., 1937.. Very good condition in D.J. and Slipcase. Spine slightly faded.. 13.5 cm X 20.5 cm. 271 pp.

Houghton Mifflin Company., 1967.. VG.in D J.. 25 cm. 176 pp. B/W plates and ills.

Philadelphia: Joseph Cruikshank and Isaac Collins., 1770;. 12mo. x, (1), 12-106 pp. A piece of early American printing. " Philadelphia, re-printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, and Isaac Collins, in Third-Street, opposite the Work-House, M,DCC,LXX." Evans 11667. Complete and sewn as issued, but no covers. Title page detached but present. Contemporary ownership signature of Jon(athan) Goodhue, 1772.

Dodd, Mead and Company., (1987). V G. in D J.. 25.5 cm. 257 pp. Color and B/W plates and ills.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1987). Limited edition of the definitive work on the arts and crafts of this historic whaling port. One of 650 copies, signed by both authors and photographer. Fine condition in lightly tanned slipcase. 25.5 cm. xi, 257 pp. Color and b/w plates.

Little, Brown and Company., (1966). V G. in D J.. 30 cm. 296 pp. B/W and Color plates.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1966). Vessels, charts and maps, models, rope work, scrimshaw, instruments, nautical antiques of all sorts. One of the standard references. First American Edition. VG, lightly sunned dj.. 31 cm. 296 pp. color photos. 4to.

Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg Press, (1968). 4to.lxxii, 416 pp. b/w plates. Reprint facsimile edition of classic on cartography of the new world. Fine condition.

London, (1995). b/w plates, some folding, color folding map.. Two vols. 16, 332 (2)-693, (22 index) pp. Ninth edition of a classic diving title, first published in the 1930s. Both volumes in fine condition, in very good dustjackets and slipcase. #1408 in a limited edition of 1500 copies.

Barre, MA: Barre Publishing, 1963. Old salts fond recollection of the tramp steamer days. Many specific ships figure in these anecdotes. First American edition. VG, in sunned dj.. 23 cm., 230 pp. b/w plates.