Last week I went on a buying trip and wrote a short blog about it, which you can read HERE. The blog was about buying regular old used books – which I refer to as “chowder” – out on the road.
Now I’ve got them mostly cataloged (had to return two of what I thought were the “best” items) and, though they don’t amount to much dollarswise, they do make for a pretty interesting list. I hope you agree!
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Adney, Edwin Tappan and Howard I. Chapelle.
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America.
Smithsonian Institution, ( 1984), Washington DC
28 cm. xiv, (2), 242 pp. b/w photos, line illustrations.
Item #:47717
Price: $50
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Anon.
The Ancient Wreck. Loss of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626.
Alfred Mudge & Son, ( 1865), Boston
21.5 cm. 44 pp. b/w frontispiece
Item #:47696
Price: $150
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Anon.
The Mitchell Library, Sydney : Historical and Descriptive Notes.
The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, ( 1936), (Sydney)
25 cm. (6), 107 pp. Color frontispiece and portrait in text tipped in, b/w plates and facsimiles.
Item #:47688
Price: $50
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Anon. (War of 1812).
An Abstract of the Public Documents, Exhibiting the Measures Recommended by the Administration, and the Proceedings in Relation to Them in Congress, Tending to Subject the People of the United States to a Military Conscription, to Fill the Ranks of the Regular Army; and a Naval Impressment, to Supply Seamen for the Public Armed Vessels of the United States
Robert Alleson, ( 1815), Georgetown
Item #:47690
Price: $125
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Brassey, Mrs. (Annie Allnut).
Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam.
Henry Holt, ( 1891), New York
21 cm. x, (1), 479 pp. b/w, folding map, plates, and line ills.
Item #:47680
Price: $35
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China Trade.
Collection of Twenty-one House and Senate Congressional Documents Relating to the China Trade, the First Opium War, and Enslavement of Chinese. 1840 – 1860.
21 Gov Docs. 14 x 22 cm., removed, with various paginations
Item #:47709
Price: $750
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Churchill, William.
Easter Island. The Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia.
The Carnegie Institute, ( 1912), Washington DC
25 cm. (4), 340 pp.
Item #:47700
Price: $125
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Colcord, Joanna.
Roll and Go
Bobbs-Merrill Company, ( (1924)), Indianapolis
24 cm. (22) 118 pp. Musical notation and b/w plates
Item #:47701
Price: $75
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Cowper, H.S.
The Art of Attack.
W. Holmes, Ltd., ( 1906), Ulverston, UK
21.5 cm. xviii, (2), 312 pp. b/w line ills.
Item #:47677
Price: $50
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Finger, Charles J.
Cape Horn Snorter.
Houghton Mifflin Company, ( 1939), Cambridge, MA
21.5 cm. (6), 263 pp. b/w illustrations.
Item #:47675
Price: $35
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Fitzgerald, A. Gerald.
Blosphoros the Buccaneer.
Typescript, printed on recto only, 19 x 28 cm. (3), 29 pp. with six watercolor illustrations.
Item #:47707
Price: $2500
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Flags.
Japanese Book Showing American, Confederate, and Other Flags.
Two volumes, 18 cm. Unpaginated, with hand-colored woodblock prints of flags.
Item #:47710
Price: $350
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Forbes, Eli.
THE NAME OF GOD RECORDED IN HIS HOUSE. A sermon, preached at the desire of the committee, appointed for REPAIRING of the MEETING-HOUSE in the First Parish of GLOUCESTER, from the waste of time, and the wanton spoilations of Captain LYNZEY in the Falcon sloop of war, immediately after those repairs were complete, on the 13th of September, 1792.
Thomas C. Cushing, ( 1795), Salem
21 cm. 19 pp.
Item #:47693
Price: $150
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Gifford, Bill.
Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer.
Harcourt, ( (2007)), New York
21 cm. xix, 331 pp. b/w plates.
Item #:47683
Price: $30
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Glen A. R.
Young Men in the Arctic. The Oxford University Arctic Expedition to Spitsbergen 1933.
Faber and Faber, ( (1935)), London
22 cm. 329 pp. b/w photo plates, colored folding map.
Item #:47714
Price: $75
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Hancock, H. E.
Semper Fidelis: The Saga of the “Navvies” ( 1924 To 1948 ).
General Steam Navigation Co Ltd., ( 1949), London
21.5 cm. xv, 140 pp. b/w halftone frontispiece and ills.
Item #:47676
Price: $30
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Handley, James E.
The Navvy in Scotland.
(Cork University Press), ( (1970)), (Cork, Ireland)
21.5 cm. 378 pp.
Item #:47674
Price: $35
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Hore, Captain Peter (editor).
Seapower Ashore: 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land
Chatham Publishing, ( (2001)), London
23.5 cm. 288 pp. b/w halftone and line ills, maps.
Item #:47682
Price: $30
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Huet, Pedro Daniel.
Historia del comercio y de la navegacion de los Antiguos.
Ramon Ruiz, ( 1793), Madrid
21 cm. xxiv, 354 pp.
Item #:47703
Price: $359
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Hughes, Katherine.
Father Lacombe, the Black-Robe Voyageur.
Moffat, Yard and Company, ( 1911), New York
20.5 cm. xxi, (4) 467 pp. b/w plates
Item #:47720
Price: $35
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