. 2016. Large Softcover.
A fine copy.
viii, 136 pp. Shipwrecks North Of Boston Volume Two: Cape Ann is the second installment of Capt. Raymond H. Bates Jr.'s history of the maritime disasters that occurred along Boston's North Shore. Whereas volume one explored the shipwrecks between Winthrop and Magnolia, volume.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front corner damaged.
448 pp. 8vo. "The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.....
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1987. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
127 pp. Bonhomme Richard, formerly Duc de Duras, was a warship in the American Continental Navy named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. She was originally an East Indiaman, a merchant ship built in France.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Gallup, Wayne. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition, in Gibraltar library binding. No jacket.
146 pp. Story of a coral diver in search of a legendary coral bank.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. Smith, E. Boyd. Hard Cover.
A fine copy.
429 pp. Green leatherette, gilt decor on boards and spine, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. Two Years Before the Mast is a remarkable book, part travelogue and part seafaring adventure.....
. Melvine Jay Douyette, 2011. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Near fine.
79 pp. 8" x 10". Authors owns a company called Cold War Submarines that builds 1/192 scale replicas. The book describes the evolution of US submarines after WWII from the start of the Cold War through today. The book.....
Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute, 1944. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. No jacket. Board soiled and rubbed, ink stamps on endpapers.
x, 436 pp. With illustrations in color from the Walt Disney Navy training film drawn by Howard Dunn. CONTENTS: Preface; Part I. The Rules of the Nautical.....
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Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum Stores, 1988. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Top page ridge very faintly foxed.
v, 218 pp. Looks at the history of speedboats, discusses the design of individual models, and includes brief profiles of top designers and racers.
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. No jacket. Front board rubbed, rear board soiled, lacks front free endpaper, all plates included though three are loose.
229 pp. Arctic Bibliography 6146: "Stories and sketches of the fishermen of the Labrador coast." Photographic.....
Stockholm, Sweden / United Kingdom: Medstroms Bokforlag / Oxbow Books, 2011. Karlsson, Anneli. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped, small tear along top edge of jacket.
212 pp. Vasa was the most modern warship imaginable in 1628. Her ability for fast and aggressive sailing, the multiple.....
Glasgow: James Brown & Son, 1915. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, ink names on front endpaper.
63 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: The Astrolabe; Gunter's Quadrant; The Nocturnal; Cross Staff or Fore Staff; The Back Staff; Principles of the Sextant; Construction of the Sextant; Astronomical Telescopes; Adjustment of.....
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Haynes / Zenith Press, 2011. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket. Small tear to spine head.
160 pp. The world famous ocean liner Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage in 1912, is the latest subject to receive the Haynes Manual treatment. With an authoritative text.....
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2013. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. A fine copy.
80 pp. In the Age of Fighting Sail (1650-1820), ambitious officers of the navies of many nations sought command of a frigate. Speedy, nimble and formidably armed, frigates often operated independently, unlike the larger ships of.....
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1891. Large Hardcover.
Boards rubbed, binding a bit shaken.
Unpaginated. Oblong, 7 1/2 x 14 1/4. A collection of verse with a nautical theme from such authors as Owen Meredith and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with illustrations by Elisabeth N. Little. The title is taken.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Boards lightly soiled.
273 pp. A history of the fighting vessel. From ancient Egyptian warships, to modern battleships and submarines. Apart from the knowledgeable text, this large format hardback is packed with high quality drawings and reproductions of paintings, and.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. copy. Rear hinge starting, ink stamps.
273 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Lake Traffic in the Coal Industry; The Early Cases; The 1917 Case and the War; Lake Cargo Litigation Since the War; The.....
New York: New York University Press, 2005. 1st Printing. Large Hardcover.
First printing. Minor general wear.
v, 271 pp. Tugboats are the workhorses of the greatest harbor in the world, easing massive ocean liners and garbage scows alike cleanly into their berths. Tugboats of New York captures the history and.....
Northamptonshire: Patrick Stephens, 1988. Third Edition. Hard Cover.
Third edition. A nice copy in a nice jacket.
184 pp. Photos and fold-out diagrams. Almost entirely a facsimile reprint... reproduces all the editorial pages exactly as they first appeared, including many gatefold plans, plus a section from the contemporary advertisements used.....
Fleischmanns, New York: Purple Mountain Press, 1998. 2nd Printing. Large Softcover.
Second printing. A fine copy.
221 pp. The Barge Canal is as much a modernization of the Erie Canal and its branches as it is an enlargement. In 1918, when the Barge Canal was completed, travelers saw things on.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hard Cover.
1935 printing. Rear stained, jacket edges rubbed. Rear board stained.
415 pp. Color illustrated endpapers. 14 nautical adventure stories.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Rear hinge starting.
xxvii, 395 pp. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles, top edge gilt, endpapers decorated with ship illustrations. 10 plates and 48 other illustrations. A study of the American sailing packet and clipper eras.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Edges lightly foxed, ink gift note on front free endpaper.
241 pp. This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S......
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989. Raisz, Erwin. 1st Printing. Hard Cover.
First printing. No jacket. Board corners bumped, sticker on front endpaper.
xxvi, 537 pp. Traces the life of the Revolutionary War hero from his early years in Scotland and Virginia through his career in the fledgling American navy
.....
New York: Harpercollins, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped and creased. Ink name on front free endpaper.
369 pp. The next installment in a highly acclaimed saga by an author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has called "one of the greatest writers of our time." In the.....
. S.N., 1930. Poster.
Near fine.
Early 20th Century Anchor-Donaldson Oceanliner Poster. 13 x 11.