BROADSIDES AND BOARDERS
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Eight pp. illustrations. "An Account of the Great Captains who Fought under Sail, and of their Battles." Inscribed by Albert on the front flyleaf..... More
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THE YANKEE WHALER
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. 156 p. With an Introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy and a Preface to the Pictures by Zephaniah W. Pease. With 150 illustrations by the author, many in full color..... More
THE LOGS OF THE SERAPIS - ALLIANCE - ARIEL UNDER THE COMMAND OF JOHN PAUL JONES, 1779-1780, with Extracts from Public Documents, Unpublished Letters, and Narratives, and Illustrated with Reproductions of Scarce Prints
New York: Naval History Society, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 138 p. Frontispiece portrait, with another plate and four pp. facsimiles. New York: Printed for the Naval History Society by The De Vinne Press, 1911. First..... More
CHARLES ELLIOT R.N., 1801-1875: A Servant of Britain Overseas
London: Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 130 p. Eleven plates. "This life of Admiral Sir Charles Elliot, nephew of the first Earl of Minto, is chiefly interesting as showing the kind of man..... More
GHOST SHIPS: Hamilton and Scourge: Historical Treasures from the War of 1812
Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom: Fountain Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with color photographs by Emory Kristof, engravings, portraits, documents, and drawings. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is slightly..... More
THE BIG J: Matriarch of the Seas
Mickey Cooper, 1982. Hardcover. Special Limited Recommissioning Edition. Pictorial history of the USS New Jersey (BB-62), from its launch on December 7, 1942 to its recommissioning on December 28, 1982 (it was decommissioned on February..... More
NIMROD OF THE SEA; or, The American Whaleman
North Quincy, Massachusetts: The Christopher Publishing House, 1972. Hardcover. 405 p. 31 illustrations. Facsimile reprint of the 1874 first edition. Classic account of a three-year voyage on a whaling ship that sailed from New Bedford..... More
THE RESOLUTION JOURNAL OF JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER, 1772-1775
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. The complete four volume set. The previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage, edited by Michael E. Hoare. The Hakluyt Society, Second..... More
SONGS THE WHALEMEN SANG
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 328 p. Illustrated with photographs of drawings from whalesman's journals and of scrimshaw furnished through the courtesy of The Whaling Museum of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The songs..... More
The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 227 p. 39 textual figures, with a two-page map. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A...... More
SETTING SAILS: A Tribute to the Chinese Junk
Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with color photographs by Nik Wheeler, as well as a number of historic images. A graphic study of the Chinese junk, covering its history..... More
H.M.S. "DORSETSHIRE": An Illustrated Account of Her Commission on the China Station, 1935-1937
Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie Ltd., 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece, with thirteen photographic plates and a folding map. Hong Kong: Ye Olde Printerie Ltd., 1937. First edition. The HMS Dorsetshire was a heavy cruiser..... More
THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENTATION IN BUILDING FUTURE NAVAL FORCES
Washington, D.C. The National Academies Press, 2004. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
HOLOGRAPHIC JOURNAL KEPT BY A NEW YORK MAN WHO SERVED AS A CADET ON A MERCHANT SHIP
1931. A detailed travel log written in 1931 by a 19-year-old New York man who served as a cadet aboard a merchant ship that traveled between the United States and the Mediterranean. The log contains..... More
FROM THE DEEP OF THE SEA: Being the Diary of the Late Charles Edward Smith, M.R.C.S., Surgeon of the Whale-ship Diana, of Hull.
London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. First-hand account of the tragic 1866 whaling expedition of the Diana, which became frozen in the ice of Baffin Bay, where it was trapped for..... More
THE PASSAGE MAKERS
Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom: Teredo Books Ltd., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 508 p. With an Introduction by Ross Osmond. 120 plates, including 22 in color. "The history of the Black Ball Line of Australian Packets..... More
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