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Civil War France, CSA Bigelow, John, 1817-1911. France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-1868; an international episode. New York: Bergman Publishers, [1968], x, 247 pages, index, portrait. Reprint of the 1888 edition. Very good copy of the hardcover. $17.50 Box 787

Americana 169yd3 Baldwin, Leland D. The keelboat age on western waters. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1941, xiv, 268pp, index, bibliography, illustrated. Very good in dust jacket. $9.50 Box 399

Ireland 993d76 Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857. The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Honorable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., FRS, Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. Edited by Louis J. Jennings. In Three volumes. London: John Murray, 1884, xii, 434p; vii, 423p; vii, 397p, index, pub ads, frontispiece. Occasional… Read more about this item

Australia 002 Twyning, John P. Wreck of the Minerva. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1996, 229 pages, illus, index, colophon page (very complete). Blue cloth binding, gilt lettering on the front cover panel and the spine, illustrated lining pages. Good to very good copy of this Ye Galleon reprint. (Ye Galleon produced some very handsome books). Good… Read more about this item

Scotland 1021 Rixson, Denis. The West Highland galley. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1998, xvi, 237p, bib, index, illus. Bought them new but the paper in the copies has tanned over the years. Thus, fine in dust jacket. A fascinating study on this medieval ship, a birlinn, which was used for centuries along the Scottish coast in legal and… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1326Torr, Cecil, 1857-1928. Ancient ships. Edited with an introduction by Anthony J. Podlecki. With an appendix containing a series of articles on the Greek warship and the Greek trireme, by W. W. Tarn [and others]. Chicago: Argonaut, 1964, xiv, 222 p. illus., plans, plates. Very good in dust jacket. … Read more about this item

Ancient world 1138Rost, Georg Alexander. Vom Seewesen und Seehandel in der Antike. Eine Studie aus maritim-militaerischer Sicht. Mit einem Geleitwort von Helmut Flashar. Amsterdam: Verlag B.R. Gruener, 1968, viii, 107 p, bib, 18 plates. The book has a slight bow to it, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Other than the signature of the… Read more about this item

Ancient world 470Casson, Lionel. The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959, xx, 286p, bib, index, illus. Good copy in tattered dust jacket. Usual shelf wear with some minor lightening of the top edge of cover. First edition, so stated. … Read more about this item