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The Path Between the Seas
by David McCullough
Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic Bibliography: p. 655-669.
Includes index.
Includes index.
Waterfront
by Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate is the author of numerous books, including Getting Personal: Selected Writings, the essay collections Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Writing New York, and Portrait of My Body, and the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of Summer. Most recently, Lopate authored Seaport: New York’s Vanished Waterfront, a book of photographs of maritime Manhattan. He is also the editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, Vogue, and many...
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Marine Books & Ephemera
Marine Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast from Alaska to the Equator
by Lionel A. Walford
Reprint Sixth edition of the 1937 edition. Illustrations in black and white and color. Very Good+ clean, unmarked and tightly bound hardcover book.
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£6.47
New England and the Sea
by Robert G. Albion, William A. Baker and Benjamin W. Labaree
Soft-cover book "New England and the Sea" - The American Maritime Library, Volume V - by Robert G. Albion, William A. Baker and Benjamin W. Labaree. Revised Edition 1994 by Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., Mystic, Connecticut. Illustrations by Marion V. Brewington. Index and Charts. Very Good clean and tightly bound book with light cover corner wear and small scrape on the rear cover. "An excellent book ... so good that it should be on the 'required reading list' of every youngster who lives within fifty...
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£5.67
Recueil de plusieurs plans des ports et rades de la mer Mediterranee
by MICHELOT, Henri
Marseille: Larens Bremand, 1730. Second. Oblong 4to 8 x 10 3/4 inches Beautiful title page with 37 fine engraved maps. Brown marbled paper wrappers, stains and scuffs to margins, corners bumped, all maps with margin stains and toned.<br/><br/> Rare maritime atlas of the Mediterranean with striking charts of ports and plans from France, Italy, and Spain. All charts were engraved, black and white and widely relied upon by coastal navigators. Michelot was not a cabinet geographer, but rather...
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£4,855.80
Select Documents illustrating the Four Voyages of Columbus. Including those contained in R.H. Major's Select Letters of Christopher Columbus. Translated and edited with additional Material, an Introduction and Notes, by Cecil Jane.
by Jane, Cecil
Hakluyt Society,, 1930. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. This second series is in good condition. Ex libris plate present along with some rubbing to the top and bottom of the spines. Otherwise both good clean copies, internally close to very good. Complete in two volumes. Please feel free to contact us for further information and additional photos.
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£60.00
Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers, Maine
by BACHE, A.D. & U.S. Coast Survey
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862. unbound. Sea chart. Uncolored lithograph. Image measures 38 1/4" x 22 3/4"<br/> <br/> Handsome sea chart depicting the mouths of the Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers, extending from Wiscasett to Seguin Island. Topography is rendered in beautiful detail. In very good condition. Top left quadrant toned, one small closed tear to lower margin. Minor toning along original fold lines.<br> <br> Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was...
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£485.58
The sea-side book: being an introduction to the natural history of the British coasts
by Harvey, W.H
1853. 3rd edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt design on front cover. V.g./No Jacket. Owner's bookplate, blind stamp on ffep. A.e.g. A tidy copy.
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£24.00
Nautical Dictionary
by Heath, Henry
Charles Tilt, 1829, 1834. Quarter Morocco. Marbled Boards. . Fine. Oblong 4to., 26 by 36.5 cm. Six hand-colored plates of caricature, six to nine separate illustrations per plate or page. The suite of plates were included in a later collection, the Caricaturist's Scrap Book, but in this later form the plates were not hand-colored typically. In this collection of 45 caricature vignettes, the conceit is a humorous take on a "nautical" word or phrase. The resulting illustration may have nothing to...
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£1,618.60
Tratado de la Artilleria y uso della Platicado por el Capotan Diego Ufano en las Guerras de Flandes
by UFANO, Diego
Brussels: Ivan Momarte, 1613. hardcover. very good. p. (18) 422 + (8) index and errata.Title page with architectural border and copper engraved illustration of coat of arms of the dedicatee, the Archduke Albert of Austria. 3 in text woodcut illustrations, decorative woodcut initials. 39 copper engraved plates, (including 9 folding). Several illustrations are toned, a few repaired and some worn. 4to, full mottled calf, ornate spine, red leather label, rubbed, rubricated edges. Brussels: Ivan Momarte,...
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£3,237.20
The Living Sea.
by Cousteau, Jean-Yves; Dugan, James
Harper and Row, New York., 1963. First Edition (shown).. Hardcover.. VG+/G. 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 x 1.. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book VERY GOOD PLUS/ Dust Jacket Good. Boards and spine are tan cloth, lettering is metallic blue, and Calypso figure embossed on front cover in copper colour. Dust jacket is white with colour photo front. Dust jacket is price clipped, has age darkening on edges and flap folds, has minor chipping along bottom edge, and a bit more on...
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£21.04
Underwater Man.
by MacInnis, Joe
Dodd Mead & Co., New York., 1975. First Edition (stated).. Hard Cover.. Near Fine/VG+. 9 x 6 1/4 x 5/8.. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book NEVER READ. Book interior NEAR FINE/ Dust Jacket Very Good Plus. Boards and spine are blue cloth, lettering is white. Dust jacket is blue with colour photo front and black/white photo on back flap. Dust jacket is NOT PRICE CLIPPED, has a small bit of blue colour rubbed off front spine edge at top and bottom, has a bit...
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£16.19
Merchant Fleets: Shaw, Savill and Albion No. 10
by Haws, Duncan
TCL Publications, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book is in very good condition. Slight fading present to the cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy.
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£12.99
Guia Martima De Chile 1923 -1924
by Swetto, R
Valparaiso, 1924. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. This scare volume is in fair condition. Rip present to the title page and tanning also present to the pages. Otherwise a good clean copy.
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£20.00
ONCE A MARINE The Memoirs of General A. A. Vandegrift, U.S.M.C
by Robert B. Asprey
This book is in excellent condition. Clean and tight. The dust jacket is only fair with some chipping at the edges and a one-inch piece missing at the top of the spine. There are 338 pages. Contains a section of glossy B & W pictures and illustrated end pages. A RARE book.
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£56.65
This Old Boat
by Don Casey
"This Old Boat" by Don Casey. Camden, Maine: International Marine - 1991 reprint edition. Illustrated by the author. Design by Janet Patterson. Index. 474pp. Green boards with letters in gilt on the spine. Very Good unmarked and tightly bound hardcover with a Good dust jacket
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£8.09
Greasy Luck: A Whaling Sketch Book
by GRANT, Gordon
New York, 1932. hardcover. very good(+). Grant, Gordon. Introduction by William McFee. Profusely illustrated by the author. 126pp. 4to, pictorial beige cloth, spine darkened. New York, (1932). Very good (+).<br/> <br/>
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£48.56
Datos sobre la Marina de Guerra de las Diferentes Naciones; Estados Unidos
by MARTINEZ-JURADO Y RUIZ, Adolfo
Havana: La Messtranza de Artilleria, 1898. First Edition. hardcover. very good(-). 38 color lithographs of ships, drawings. Thin elephant folio, original cloth-backed boards; (slight wear to spine). Habana: La Messtranza de Artilleria, 1898. Limited Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> Each ship of the U.S. navy is illustrated with a lithograph and 3 cross-section drawings. Architectural statistics on each ship.<br/><br/>
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£3,237.20
Life at the Sea's Frontiers
by Perry, Richard
David & Charles; Newton Abbot., 1974. First printing. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Near fine in like dust jacket. 8vo, 8 3/4".. Black and white drawings by Nancy Lou Gahan.. Near fine in like dust jacket. Some pencil markings to the front pastedown. Mild soiling to the endpapers, all else internally fine; a good tight copy. Dust jacket is almost fine apart from minor bumping to the external edges.
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£3.60
Typed Letter Signed about the Proposed Jamestown Exposition
by CORTELYOU, George B. (1862 - 1940)
Washington, 1904. unbound. 2 pages on "Department of Commerce and Labor" letterhead, 10.5 x 8 inches, Washington, April 13, 1904. Written as Secretary of Commerce and Labor to powerful member of the House of Representatives H. L. Maynard, concerning plans for proposed exhibits at the upcoming Jamestown Exposition, in small part: "...Of my sympathy with the general purposes of the proposed Jamestown Exposition and of my desire to contribute to its success you have already been assured. An...
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£161.86
Zur See - Begründet Von Vize-Admiral z. D. von Henk, unter Mitwirkung Von Marinemaler Niethe, Contre-Admiral A.D. Werner, M. von Wedel, Königlich Norwegischem Kommandeur-Kapitän Baron Wedel-Jarlsberg und mehreren deutschen und englischen See-Offizieren. Illustrirt von A. v. Werner, Marinemaler Niethe, Marinemaler Lindner, Maler Krickel und Anderen. Redigirt von M. von Wedel. Mit 390 Textabbildungen und 14 (recte 20) ganzseitigen Kunstbeilagen in Holzschnitt, Autotypie, Chromolithographie, Kupfer- und Lichtdruck. Dritte Auflage.
by Wedel, M. von (Redaktion):
Hamburg, Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei Actien-Gesellschaft (vormals J. F. Richter),, (ohne Jahr (um 1896),). Die ersten Blätter etwas stockfleckig, ansonsten nur sehr vereinzelt und nur sehr schwach; insgesamt sehr sauber - wie häufig ist die Zahl der Kunstbeilagen ungenau, hier fehlt eine angekündigte, aber 6 nicht vermerkte vorhanden, davon eine Doppelblatt große Farblithographie vom Hamburger Hafen.. (4), 417, (2) S., ca. 20 Kunstbeilagen, Gr. 4° (Groß-Quart, 35 bis 40 cm). Goldgeprägtes...
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£125.80
Extraordinary Autographed Letter Signed in Spanish
by (BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR)
Santa Cruz, Tenerife, 1805. unbound. 3 pages (front and back), each measuring 8 x 6 inches, no place (but on the mainland), no date, but shortly after November 4, 1805. Signed: "C[arlo]s Carrasco," possibly a relative of Naval officer and explorer Juan Carlos Carrasco, to [His Lordship] Roberto de Herrera, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, translated in part: "...I have written Your Worship a number of letters with the news of the day. I do not know whether they have reached you...I hope this is not...
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£1,416.28
Portland Harbor
by BACHE, A.D. & U.S. Coast Survey
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862. unbound. Sea chart. Uncolored lithograph. Image measures 38" x 26 1/4"<br/> <br/> Beautiful sea chart of Portland Harbor in Maine featuring a town plan of the city of Portland, and dramatically rendered topographical detail. Includes Peaks Island, Cushing Island, and other islets. An inset in the lower left depicts "Approaches to Portland Harbor", showing Cape Elizabeth and surrounding waters, with depths by soundings. An...
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£546.28
Honor to Whom Honor is Due." Origin of Steam Navigation. A View of Collect Pond and its Vicinity
by HUTCHINGS, John
New York: John Hutchings, 1846. unbound. very good(+). Map. Lithograph. 14 1/2" x 18".<br/><br/> Fascinating map of the section in lower Manhattan from Lispenard Street and Broadway, down to Warren and Centre Streets, where the Alms House was. The focus of the map is Collect Pond, centered at the intersection of Centre and Leonard Streets. Besides the map to the left are letters to John Hutchings certifying that a steam boat was seen on Collect Pond in 1796. To the right are...
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£768.84
Do Your Duty; Join The Marines Help Them Defend America On Land And Sea
by Anonymous
Original poster. Offset lithograph. 27.5 x 18 inches.<br/> <br/> This uncommon recruiting poster features vibrant green and white text with an illustration of marines on deck, loading a gun for firing. Good condition with Library notations in right margin.<br/> <br/>
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£303.49
Exploring the Secrets of the Sea
by Cromie, William J
George Allen and Unwin Ltd; London., 1964. First British printing. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Good in like dust jacket. 8vo. 8 1/2".. Lavishly illustrated by George Geygan, and with photographs and figures etc.. Good in like dust jacket. DJ chipped and price-clipped. Gift inscribed. 300pp.
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£3.60
Der letzte Mann: Aus dem Heldenkampf S.M.S. Leipzig in der Seeschlacht bei den Falkland-Inseln am 8. Dezember 1914 nach dem Gemälde von Professor Hans Bohrdt
by Bohrdt, Hans:
1915.. Leipzig, Verlag, von Otto Gustav Zehrfeld; Druck von Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Berlin, Heliogravure, ca. 67,2 x 49,6 cm um 1915/ oJ, Ecken/Kanten bestossen, etwas randrissg (wurde auch mal auf der Rückseite nachgeklebt), etwas vergilbt und stockfleckig, eher mittlerer Zustand für das Alter Antiquitäten
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£507.55
