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 about BROADSIDES AND BOARDERS
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 about THE YANKEE WHALER
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 about THE LOGS OF THE SERAPIS - ALLIANCE - ARIEL UNDER THE COMMAND OF JOHN PAUL JONES, 1779-1780, with...
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 about CHARLES ELLIOT R.N., 1801-1875: A Servant of Britain Overseas
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 about GHOST SHIPS: Hamilton and Scourge: Historical Treasures from the War of 1812
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Textual photographs and illustrations. First-hand account of the exploits of the USS Skate, a nuclear submarine that became the first to make a completely submerged trans-Atlantic... More about SURFACE AT THE POLE: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
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 about THE BIG J: Matriarch of the Seas
Nashville, Tennessee: The Battery Press, Inc., 1997. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1929 second edition. 18 plans, including the five folding plans housed in the pockets. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued... More about History of the Great War, Based on Official Documents: NAVAL OPERATIONS, Vol. II
Nashville, Tennessee: The Battery Press, Inc., 1995. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 second edition. Seven plans and diagrams, including the folding frontispiece. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust... More about History of the Great War, Based on Official Documents: NAVAL OPERATIONS, Vol. III
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co., 1926. Hardcover. 406 p. With an Introduction and Notes by John R. Spears. Frontispiece, with 31 full-page plates. New edition. Classic account of a three-year voyage on a whaling ship... More about 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 about NIMROD OF THE SEA; or, The American Whaleman
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 about THE RESOLUTION JOURNAL OF JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER, 1772-1775
Edison, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 176 p. Profusely illustrated. First American Edition. A volume in Conway's History of the Ship. Quarto. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine... More about SAIL'S LAST CENTURY: The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830-1930
London: Nautical Books, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 134 p. Profusely illustrated, partially in color. An illustrated survey of trade among the 13,667 Indonesian islands and the native craft engaged in it. Includes detailed descriptions of... More about PRAUS OF INDONESIA
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 about SONGS THE WHALEMEN SANG
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 about The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Walter Lord on a prefatory blank leaf. Additionally, an envelope containing 14 white labels inscribed by Lord is laid in. The... More about A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
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 about SETTING SAILS: A Tribute to the Chinese Junk
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. With maps specially drawn by J.F. Horrabin and others selected by the Author, some from original sources. London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1949. First edition. Octavo... More about THE MARITIME HISTORY OF RUSSIA, 848-1948
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 about H.M.S. "DORSETSHIRE": An Illustrated Account of Her Commission on the China Station,...
Washington, D.C. The National Academies Press, 2004. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More about THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENTATION IN BUILDING FUTURE NAVAL FORCES
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 about THE PASSAGE MAKERS