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Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. Hard Cover. Two volumes: xlv, 448; vii, 445 pages, maps (2 folding), illus., index; 25 cm. Morison's motivation is expressed in the preface: "...this book arose out of a desire to know exactly where Columbus sailed on his Four Voyages, and what sort of a seaman he was. No previous work on the Discoverer of America answers these questions in a manner to satisfy even an amateur seafarer." Published at the same time as the 680-page single volume, from which "all the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigational data; a chapter on ships and sailing and one on the origin of syphilis have been summarized. Otherwise the two editions are identical." This set has been a prize in my library since the early 1960s. I had the opportunity to talk to Albert Harkness, Jr., who sailed on Morison's expeditions as a secretary, and later to assist Morison when he ventured to Providence, and at dinner in Florence. The cardboard box has protected the books well and they are…
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (2 Volumes).
by Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
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The Age of Reconnaissance.
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"The purpose of this book is to tell in outline the story of European geographical exploration, trade and settlement outside the bounds of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to define the factors which stimulated expansion and made it possible; and to describe briefly the consequences which followed from it." xv, 365 pages, 80 illustrations, 5 maps, index; 25 cm.; dust jacket desperately tattered, mostly present; book Very Good. Stock#ofc0584.
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American Travel [60]; Travels East of the Mississippi [107]; European Travellers in America [148].
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Three bookseller catalogs from William Reese Co.: no. 60, American Travel, 390 items. "This catalogue is devoted to narratives of travel, mostly in North America in the nineteenth century, and even more specifically, mostly in what is now the United States between 1800 and 1875. Within that frame the narratives run from East to West. There are a good number of middle western and southern narratives in particular. ...entries begin as early as Josselyn in 1672 and Hennepin in 1697 and run to the early 20th century. Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean are also represented, with a few bold travellers in South America and the Pacific." No. 107, Travels East of the Mississippi, 471 items; "...includes a wide variety of travel accounts from Canada to the Caribbean." No. 148, European Travellers in America, 346 items; list of frequently cited references at end. "This catalogue is made up entirely of books by European travellers who visited America. While there is considerable geographical and…
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Annual Report 1950.
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New York, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc, 1951. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc. was the corporate name for Mobil. "December 2, 1950 marked the beginning of deliveries from the Mediterranean terminal of the Trans-Arabian pipeline (Tapline) which, together with Aramco's pipeline system, transports Aramco crude over 1,000 miles from the Saudi Arabian fields on the Persian Gulf to Sidon. Socony-Vacuum has a 10 percent interest in this 300,000-barrel-per-day line." Soft Cover. 24 pages, illus., 28 cm. Vg/ softcover. Stock#42449/h.
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Antarctic Icebreakers. Illustrated with Photographs.
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Junior Literary Guild / Doubleday, Doran, NY, 1937 [Country Life Press]. Hard Cover. xxv, 319 p., 58 photos; 23.5 cm.; silver boards stamped in blue; ex Pontiac Free Library; some soiling; withal good. 29509 {Fifi}
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Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North. Illustrated with Photographs and Maps.
by Freuchen, Peter, 1886-1957.
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New York, Farrar & Rinehart [1935].. Hard Cover. xi, 467 p., photos throughout incl. portrait front., maps incl. endpapers; 24 cm. Freuchen traveled the Arctic, married an Inuit woman, lost a leg to frostbite. Not your National Geographic fluff. Stock# 39,140. Good+, blue cloth covers stamped in blue; spine faded/ no dj. Participated in mapping the as yet unexplored northeast part of Greenland and crossed the Greenland ice cap, among many other adventures. (2582) Arctic exploration & history; autobiography; Eskimos; sociology, anthropology.
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Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century
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NY, Miller, Orton, 1857. First Edition. Hard Cover. xiii, [25]-517 p., illus., 20 cm. "Being detailed accounts of the several expeditions to the North Seas, both English and American, conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, and others, including the first Grinnell expedition, under Lieutenant De Haven, and the final effort in search of Sir John Franklin." First edition. This was a popular publication. There are numerous full-page woodcuts. The binding is tight and sound but the cloth is worn, frayed and torn at edges & spine. Some foxing. Fair condition. Stock#101611 (dr).
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Below the Roaring Forties: An Antarctic Journal
by Ommanney, F. D. (Francis Downes)
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London, Longmans, Green, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. ix, 308 p., 16 halftone photographs, endpaper maps; 22 cm. 'First Edition.' Published in England as South Latitude. 'The 'Discovery' Expedition, equipped and sent out on the recommendation of a committee of the [British] Colonial Office in 1924 to inquire into the biology of whales in the Falkland sector of the Antarctic, had built a biological station at Grytviken, in South Georgia, from which scientists had been making careful notes on the whale carcasses at the neighbouring whaling station for the last five years.' A detailed description of the Norwegian Antarctic whaling and sealing operations by the naturalist of the Discovery II Expedition. Stock# 39,297.Good+, blue cloth covers stamped in silver; spine darkened/ no dj. Exploration, natural science, zoology; memoir; Southern Ocean.
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Captain James Cook: After Two Hundred Years: a commemorative address delivered before the Hakluyt Society
by Skelton, Raleigh Ashlin, 1906-1970, Thomas E. Marston, George D. Painter, Alexander O. Vietor
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London, British Museum, 1969. Soft Cover. 32 p., 25 plates, illus., facsims., maps, portraits (1 color); 22 cm. Biography of "the greatest explorer of his age". ISBN (10): 0714102865. Very Good / soft cover. Stock#47617.
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Catalogue 20. Royal Geographical Society Journal Proceedings & Mountaineering Journals.: Catalogue 26. Polar Regions & Mountaineering.
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Two bookseller catalogues. Cavendish: 151 RGS Journal & Proceedings + 38 mountaineering journals. Grigor-Taylor, 18th & 19th century Alps & Mountaineering, 14; 20th century mountaineering, 29; 18th-19th century polar exploration, 16; 20th century polar exploration, 97 items. Both stapled in pictorial paper covers; both Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0293.
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Catalogue 39: Bibliotheca Americana Cartographica.: Catalogue 88: American Maps in Books.
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Two bookseller catalogues listing materials on mapping and cartography. 39, 373 items, a few illus.; 88, 437 items. Both in paper covers; Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0327.
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Christopher Columbus. The Grand Design [Cristoforo Colombo]
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London: Orbis, é1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. 573 p., 64 p. of plates, illus.; 25 cm. Translation of: Cristoforo Colombo. Inscribed to "Prof." Albert Harkness [Jr] who, as a Harvard student, sailed with Samuel Eliot Morison on Morison's Columbus recreation. Mr. Harkness once told me that Morison would adjust the day's log to better conform with his projections. Contains two sheets and pencil notes in the book of Harkness observations. Stock#47400. Vg / dj vg.
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Christopher Columbus: Being the Life of the Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon
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NY, Macmillan Co., 1940. Hard Cover. xi, 524 p., front (port.), fold. maps; 24 cm. Map on lining-papers. De Madariaga's biography, based on "dusty papers", a phrase he uses repeatedly, incorporates many of the knotty issues of Columbus's life into the text, where Morison, just about Madariaga's contemporary, put such matters in his second volume to keep the narrative flow unhindered. Stock#47032. Good+, half-inch nick in top of spine / no dj.
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The Contributions to Exploration of the Salem East India Marine Society.
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Founded to encourage exploration and 'to collect such facts and observations as may tend to the improvement and security of navigation', the Marine Society at Salem in New England (uniquely among East Coast marine societies) included formation of 'a Museum of natural and artificial curiosities' which today flourishes as the Peabody Museum. OFFPRINT. Reprinted from The American Neptune XXV. 3, 1965, pages 176-188, 4 plates; stapled without covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0170.
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Cristoforo Colombo: Genius of the Sea
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Roma: Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1991. Soft Cover. 94 p.; 20 cm. Head of title page: Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Comitato nazionale per le celebrazioni del V centenario della scoperta dell' America. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-94). Vg / soft cover. Stock#47074x.
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Dead Reckoning.: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration 1800-1900.
by Whybrow, Helen, editor.
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Discoverie of the Large and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana...
by Raleigh / Ralegh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
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London, Argonaut Press, 1928. Hard Cover. Folio: cvi, 182 p., [2] folding leaves of plates, facsimiles, maps (one folding), portrait; 27 cm. Standard title: Discovery of the large and beautiful empire of Guiana. "Edited from the original text [London, 1596], with introduction, notes, and appendixes of hitherto unpublished documents by V. T. Harlow." The expedition to the Orinoco-- El Dorado-- in 1595 with documents captured at sea by Captain George Popham from a Spanish ship, with that perspective on the piratical raid. Reprint of STC 20634. "This edition is limited to 975 copies." This, like many others, is unnumbered. Vg/no dj. Stock#OB088.
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The Discovery of the Sea.
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"Knowledge of continuous sea passages from ocean to ocean round the world... was the outcome of the century or so of European maritime questing... What were the motives which drove seamen out from fifteenth-century Europe upon a career of worldwide discovery?" xv, 302 pages, illustrations, index; oblong quarto, 26 cm. Bound by Tapley-Rutter in tan binder's cloth, color pictorial dust jacket torn, worn; Very Good. Stock#ofc0535.
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The Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library.: Histoire Naturelle des Indes.
by Drake, Sir Francis, 1540-1596. Pierce, Charles E. Jr. O'Brian, Patrick. Kraemer, Ruth S., translator. Klinkenborg, V.
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André Deutsch Ltd., London [1996]. Preface by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Foreword by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth S. Kraemer. Drake was "known to have had French Huguenots on board, and from the hand of one or more of them came the watercolours and accompanying texts of an astonishingly beautiful manuscript, known as the Histoire naturelle des Indes and now held in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. This extraordinary manuscript, here presented in full-colour facsimile with English translations, is a haunting contemporary record of early European encounters with the Americas. This was not the virgin land Drake expected to find but one already shaped and overlaid by two sophisticated cultures, one European (Spanish), the other the now virtually extinct indigenous 'Indians'. Nearly two hundred paintings document plants, animals, fish and birds, as well as daily life and work among the inhabitants...' Hard Cover. xxii, 272 pages. Dust jacket; fine. stock#21469/h.
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The Early Cartography of the Pacific.
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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Volume 38, number 2, 1944, pages 87-267, 22 folding maps; 23.5 cm. Contents include The Period of the Great Discoveries; Hypothetical Pacific; Pacific Becomes a Reality; Pacific Is Given Bounds; False Continent, Terra Australis; New Guinea and the Solomons; Dutch Explorations and the Mapping of Australia; Japan, the Shuttlecock of the Cartographers; Russian Discoveries. The entire issue of BSA Papers was given to this monograph, which was dedicated to Major Robert Kenny of the 203rd Field Artillery. 'There has been no moment in its writing in which Robert Kenny and his fellows in the South Pacific have been absent from the author's consciousness.' Fine copies, part unopened. Stock #27397x/h.
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