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1849. HART, Joseph C. THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST. Two volumes in one with original wrappers bound in. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848 (title page) issued in two parts in wrappers dated 1849, printed price 37 1/2 cents. 332 pp. + 28 pp. publisher's advertisements, some unopened. 8vo. Included notes on navigation, nautical vocabulary, and oddly, the Shakespeare authorship controversy. This wrapper edition likely constitutes a second issue. Bound in half blue gilt-ruled morocco with raised bands, spine ornaments, blue marbled paper covered boards. Overall a lovely copy. OCLC locates only one copy issued in wrappers; quite scarce thus.
Cornwall. by PINE, John - 1739
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Cornwall.
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THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST
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Histoire des Nouvelles Decouvertes Faites dans la Mer du Sud en 1767, 1768, 1769 & 1770. Hydrographie de la Mer du Sud. Vols I & II
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Paris: Chez De Hansy le jeune, 1774 A very good copy in newer full morocco binding with fold out map by Robert de Vaugondy. M. de Freville was a teacher, who wrote a variety of works, including for children. This book is notable in that it gives one of the first accounts in French of Cook's 1st voyage in the Endeavour, 1768-71. The bindings have raised bands and gilt titles and dates to spines. They are in near fine condition. The endpapers are marbled in a near match for the original marbling on the page edges. New blanks have been inserted at front and rear. Vol I: half title (giving the alternative 'Hydrographie...as the title); title page with 2 ink signatures across the lower half (the ink is visible to verso); Preface v-xlviii; fold out map; text with decorative headpiece and tailpieces pp 1-518; Index 519-522; errata. Vol I is in very good clean condition with the occasional light mark. There is some worming to the top margin - mainly affecting pp 157-208; and less so pp 217-228. At…
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THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA
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First edition thus, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 25-348; 4 plates within text block, 8 folding charts depicting a vertical section of the Atlantic, depth chart, paths of hurricanes, sea drifts, winds and routes, and the gulf stream, and 1 folding table of a pilot's sheet - all in perfect condition barring one small tear(4 cm.) on Plate VIII; original navy blue cloth, corners rubbed and bumped, textblock bright and sound. Considered the first textbook of modern oceanography, this work was among the first to recognize the sea as a separate branch of science. Maury was a distinguished naval officer and a prolific writer on oceanography and naval subjects; he was instrumental in establishing an international system for recording oceanographic data, based on worldwide cooperation of naval vessels and the merchant marine. This work went through many editions; here on offer is the first printing of an enlarged and revised sixth edition - "An Entirely New Edition" - first published and entered on the Congressional Register…
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The Seaman's Medical Guide In Preserving the Health of a Ship's Crew: Containing Plain Directions for the Use of the Medicines in the Cure of Diseases &c.
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A voyage round the world
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Walter, R. A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson,commander in chief of a Squadron of His Majesties Ships, sent upon an Epedition sto the South-Seas.Compiled From his Papers and Materials,By Richard Walter, M.A. Chaplain of His Majesty's Shop the Centurion, in thet Expedition.The Eight EditionLondon: Printed for T. Osborne et all - 1756. Fully restored in contemporary full calf black leather.Spine with gilt lining, raised bands and red morocco label with gilt title.2 folding Maps;in front; A chart shewing The Track of the Centurion round the WORLDin back; detailed map of Japan, Philipine and Martan Islands with some loss.Title page - dedication - advertisement - contents - introductionVoyage round the World; 536ppAnson's task was to intercept Spanish ships and their cargo from the New World, he travelled in detail to Patagonia, Chile, the Philippines, around the Cape of Good Hope. During the voyage, Anson captured a Spanish galleon with a…
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THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST
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1849. HART, Joseph C. THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST. Two volumes in one with original wrappers bound in. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848 (title page) issued in two parts in wrappers dated 1849, printed price 37 1/2 cents. 332 pp. + 28 pp. publisher's advertisements, some unopened. 8vo. Included notes on navigation, nautical vocabulary, and oddly, the Shakespeare authorship controversy. This wrapper edition likely constitutes a second issue. Bound in half blue gilt-ruled morocco with raised bands, spine ornaments, blue marbled paper covered boards. Overall a lovely copy. OCLC locates only one copy issued in wrappers; quite scarce thus.
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THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA
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First edition thus, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 25-348; 4 plates within text block, 8 folding charts depicting a vertical section of the Atlantic, depth chart, paths of hurricanes, sea drifts, winds and routes, and the gulf stream, and 1 folding table of a pilot's sheet - all in perfect condition barring one small tear(4 cm.) on Plate VIII; original navy blue cloth, corners rubbed and bumped, textblock bright and sound. Considered the first textbook of modern oceanography, this work was among the first to recognize the sea as a separate branch of science. Maury was a distinguished naval officer and a prolific writer on oceanography and naval subjects; he was instrumental in establishing an international system for recording oceanographic data, based on worldwide cooperation of naval vessels and the merchant marine. This work went through many editions; here on offer is the first printing of an enlarged and revised sixth edition - "An Entirely New Edition" - first published and entered on the Congressional Register…
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The Seaman's Medical Guide In Preserving the Health of a Ship's Crew: Containing Plain Directions for the Use of the Medicines in the Cure of Diseases &c.
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A voyage round the world
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Walter, R. A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson,commander in chief of a Squadron of His Majesties Ships, sent upon an Epedition sto the South-Seas.Compiled From his Papers and Materials,By Richard Walter, M.A. Chaplain of His Majesty's Shop the Centurion, in thet Expedition.The Eight EditionLondon: Printed for T. Osborne et all - 1756. Fully restored in contemporary full calf black leather.Spine with gilt lining, raised bands and red morocco label with gilt title.2 folding Maps;in front; A chart shewing The Track of the Centurion round the WORLDin back; detailed map of Japan, Philipine and Martan Islands with some loss.Title page - dedication - advertisement - contents - introductionVoyage round the World; 536ppAnson's task was to intercept Spanish ships and their cargo from the New World, he travelled in detail to Patagonia, Chile, the Philippines, around the Cape of Good Hope. During the voyage, Anson captured a Spanish galleon with a…
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UNDER SAIL TO GREENLAND. Being an Account of the Voyage of the Cutter "Direction", Arthur S. Allen, Jr., Captain, to Greenland in the Summer of 1929, together with the Log, Letters and Other Memoranda. [With,] N BY E
by [Greenland; Sailing]; [Allen, Jr. Arthur S.]; Kent, Rockwell
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New York: The Marchbanks Press [and,] Brewer & Warren, 1931 and 1930. First Edition of the first book. One of 900 copies only, this copy one of 300 for private distribution and A PRESENTATION COPY from Hal Marchbanks, the publisher, inscribed in his hand [with,] First Edition of the second book, the true first trade issue preceding the issue by Random House. The first book Illustrated throughout with photographs taken on the cruise, with a facsimile page from the logbook, and a folding map in colour at the end of the volume, and with endpapers depicting the naval architecture of the sailing ship '"Direction". The second book with over 150 dramatic woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent, most are quite large and 8 are full page. 4to and 8vo, publisher's tan grained cloth and gray-blue paper covered boards, the spine panel lettered in gilt, the upper cover decorated and lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in gilt, green and red, the endpapers printed in white on a turquoise background.…
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Adventures on Land and Sea with CD
by Richardson, Stephen
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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
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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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Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach
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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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