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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 The previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage, edited by Michael E. Hoare.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
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
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
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
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
Washington, D.C. The National Academies Press, 2004. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
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
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
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