HARPOONS AND OTHER WHALECRAFT by Lytle, Thomas G - 1984

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.

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!

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011-06-13. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Lovely copy. Text and photos are clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket is clean, very light edge/shelf wear. No rips, tears or stains. Binding is VG, solid, square. First edition. Pen and Sword Maritime (June 13, 2011). Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels. Ships in box quickly and with care.

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!

Hardcover Cloth 156 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1988. Nice white boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. A book on the building and embellishment, the rigging and armaments of the Vasa, the Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628. The book includes comparative studies of Danish, English and Dutch shipbuilding methods of the time.

London, United Kingdom: George Allen & Company, Ltd, 1913. Marks to front and rear boards. Blue boards with gilt title and decoration to front. Previous owners name to front endpaper. Foxing thoughout. 336 pages with b/w illustrations. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Philadelphia: H. G. Leisenring's Steam House. Very Good. 1867. First Edition. Soft Cover. Peach colored paper covers with black titles. Interior of booklet is tight, clean & intact. United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Co. Includes a history of the formation of the joint companies monopoly. First Joint Report. New Jersey Canals ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages .

Pamphlet circa 1809. The wreck of the HMS Centaur in September, 1782 is a famous event with many accounts. The Centaur left Jamaica for England and sank in a hurricane. The survivors drifted for 16 days before arriving in the Azores. Twelve survived while 400 were lost. Pamphlets of this type were sometimes sold separately and sometimes bound in volumes. This item appears disbound from a larger volume but may still be regarded as complete. There is a note at bottom of page 2 "3d Ed. 17,000" making this a later printing. WorldCat locates 1 copy but it is from a different publisher. See OCLC: 751357712. Condition is Good: disbound from larger volume. Closed tear affecting pages 1-2 (see image). Paginates: (1)-12. Please see images of the pamphlet you will receive. Feel free to inquire.

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011-06-13. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Lovely copy. Text and photos are clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket is clean, very light edge/shelf wear. No rips, tears or stains. Binding is VG, solid, square. First edition. Pen and Sword Maritime (June 13, 2011). Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels. Ships in box quickly and with care.

First edition, hardcover, 1879, Washington. Large heavy book has been professionally recased using original boards and spine, new endpapers. Paginates complete with all images and maps (13 European, 8 Inuit). Large folding map in rear pocket backed with linen, two panels with marbled paper over linen. Frontis portrait is heavy brittle stock and looks to have been reattached. Excellent interior with no ownership markings, no foxing, all images bright. Binding is sound. Boards show moderate patina, stains, etc but gilt remains bright. Old spine laid down over matching cloth looks rough but is not fragile. Arctic Biblio 6486. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Hall did not survive his 3rd voyage so Nourse sorted through Hall's voluminous notes and artifacts to produce this report. Contains some high quality images on plates and is packed with interesting images embedded in text.