Maritime from Brillig Books

New York: Edward W. Sweetman, 19 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. Facsimile photolithographic reproduction from the 1819 Edition. Octavo, tobacco brown linen covered boards with dark brown spine title and anchor decorations. Top edge stained brick brown. 124pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with black and white engravings and drawings. A very tight, clean, fresh bright copy without dust jacket (as issued).… Read more about this item

Providence, RI: Mowbray Publishing Company, 1976. Book. Fine. Cloth. Later Printing. Second Printing. Oblong quarto, (11" x 9"), dark blue cloth covered boards. Decorative endpapers. 205 pp. including photo and autobiographical note on author, index and appendix with technical details and descrriptions of all of the Fall River vessels. Very generously illustrated throughout with colorr and black and white vintage… Read more about this item

Ottawa, ON: Algrove Publishing, 2006. Book. As New. Soft cover. Later Printing. Later printing. Quarto, royal blue illustrated stiff wraps. 290 pp. including index. 55 plates of which 7 plus the frontispiece, are in full color. Completely reset from the original "bad" typography into a double column format which the publisher declares makes it much more accessible and easy to… Read more about this item

Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing, 1947. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Large oblong quarto, illustrated original card boards with white comb spine binding. Ships and Sailing Series No. 4. A photographiic history of New England schooners and fishing vessels with 41 black and white photographs of sailing ships including the Checao, Pinkey, Heeltapper, Clipper, Plum-stemmer, Fredonia, Indian-header, Knockabout, and… Read more about this item

Boston: Charles E. Lauriat, 1937. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, wheat cloth covered boards with dark brown title and spine titles. 140 pp. including list of ships built by Captain Nathaniel Lord Thompson. Illustrated with almost forty full page plates, showing ships, shipyards, ship's captains and facsimile reproductions of old documents. A tight, sound, clean unmarked and apparently unread… Read more about this item

New York: Lyons Press, 1999. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 192 pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with full color photographs, maps, drawings, historic reproductions of paintings and diagrams of ship's architecture, including many undersea photographs. The extensive history of shipwrecks, their cargoes of treasure, art and history and the divers… Read more about this item

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Folio, white buckram covered boards. Map endpapers. 191 pp. Generously illustrated throughout with full color and black and white photographs by Richard Nugent. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Crown Publishers/Maine Historical Societyq, 1965. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles and decorations. 448 pp. including list of vessels and list of persons referred to in journals. The detailed journals of life in a Maine seaport of the 19th century. The author was a custioms official so his reporting on… Read more about this item

Huntington, WV: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1969. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Revised Edition. Oblong quarto, (14.5" x 8"), grey stiff wraps with black plastic comb binding. 4 pages of contents, legends and index followed by 168 full page color navigation charts (NO. 104-172. An excellent copy with no cracking or broken combs in the binding and a crisp,… Read more about this item

Louisville, KY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1969. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Revised Edition. Oblong quarto, (14.5" x 8"), red stiff wraps with red plastic comb binding. 4 pages of contents, legends and index followed by 107 full page color navigation charts (NO. 2-108). An excellent copy with no cracking or broken combs in the binding and a crisp,… Read more about this item

Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Thick octavo, blue cloth covered boards with royal blue title panel and gilt title, decoartion and border. Blue silk ribbon marker. 646 pp. plus a note on the editors. A faithful reproduction of the rare 1815 second edition of this important classic report of the voyage of Captain David… Read more about this item

Norman, OkK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Book. As New. Soft cover. Octavo, blue and white illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 630 pp. including extensive index, bibliography and notes. Illlustrated with black and white photographs and maps. A very tight, clean, crisp, stiff, square, fresh, sparkling, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston,, 1974 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Large octavo, black cloth covered boards with gilt spine title. 160pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white reproductions and diagrams. Introduction by Alan Villiers. Three selections from original diaries of American ships captains including tales of early Australia and the clipper ship trade with China. 6… Read more about this item

New York: Edward W. Sweetman, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First printing of this edition. Octavo, tobacco brown linen covered boards with dark brown spine title and anchor decorations. Top edge stained brick red. 155pp. including appendices. Illustrated with black and white drawings, of sails, splices, rigging etc. An exhaustive and comprehensive treatment of the subject with detailed specifications. A… Read more about this item

New York: Murray Hill, 1944., 1944. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards. Endpapers illustrated with sketch maps of the routes of voyage by the author. Top edge stained yellow. 487pp. Sixteen illustrations by Gordon Grant with six full page full color plates. First illustrated edition. A remarkably well-preserved copy. A very tight, fresh,… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, sea green cloth covered boards. 207pp. Illustrated with 20 full page color plates of great sailing ships reproduced from paintings by the author. Holmes was not only a deeply experienced ship's captain and chronicler of the last decades of the Tall Ships but also a renowned maritime… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925., 1925. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, navy blue cloth with gilt titles, decoration and spine titles. Top edge stained blue. 436pp. Illustrated throughout with full page black and white plates and in text drawings by John Wolcott Adams. A history of the early steamboats of New England, the Great Lakes and… Read more about this item

New York: Edward W. Sweetman, 19 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. Facsimile photolithographic reproduction from the 1819 Edition. Octavo, tobacco brown linen covered boards with dark brown spine title and anchor decorations. Top edge stained brick brown. 124pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with black and white engravings and drawings. A very tight, clean, fresh bright copy without dust jacket (as issued).… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto, light blue cloth covered boards. 221pp. including bibliography and list of maritime museums of the world. A comprehensive survey of collectible nautical memorabilia, antiques, objects and ephemera. Genuinely profusely illustrated throughout with color and black and white reproductions, photographs and diagrams. The items are carefully explained in terms… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, (1973). Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Large octavo, full navy blue leatherette with blindstamp front panel decoration of a compass rose and gilt spine titles. Map endpapers, silk ribbon marker. 270pp. including index and selected bibliography. Generously illustrated throughout in color and black and white with many in text and full page maps in color… Read more about this item