Maritime List 357 – Rarus

When I was in high school the languages available for study were Spanish, French, German and Latin. When our first child attended high school, it was still possible to take courses in Latin. The high school principal back then, a good ole knuckle dragger incapable of writing a simple declarative sentence, could’ve used a few years of it himself. Instead, he and the school board abolished Latin as a course of study in our public school system. If I’d have told him tu mortes he probably would’ve replied, “Two more days for what?”

Flash forward many, many years. I am compiling Maritime List 357 and the word rarisimus comes into my head from I know not where. I look at the shelf I’m working on… 35 lovely volumes, and I back it off to rarus.

Now you know all the Latin I remember.

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#1:
A Citizen of the United States, (George Armroyd).
A Connected View Of The Whole Internal Navigation Of The United States; Natural And Artificial, Present And Prospective…
Author, ( 1830), Philadelphia
23 cm. viii, 617 pp. Folding frontispeice map and two folding hand colored plates at back.
Item #:48502
Price: $2000
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#2:
Adanson, M(ichel).
A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the River Gambia.
J. Nourse, ( 1759), London
xiii, (1), 337, (1 errata) pp. b/w folding map.
Item #:48490
Price: $600
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#3:
Anon.
England’s Black Tribunal.
C. Rivington, ( 1737), London
11.5 x 19 cm. xxxi, (1), 308, (4 publisher's ads) pp. b/w engraved frontispiece.
Item #:48497
Price: $250
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#4:
Anon.
Papers Relating to America Presented to the House of Commons, 1809.
A. Strahan, ( 1810), London
21 cm. viii, 178, (4 index) pp.
Item #:48491
Price: $250
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#5:
Arnold, Thomas.
The American Practical Lunarian, and Seaman’s Guide.
Robert Desilver, ( 1822), Philadelphia
21 cm. xviii, (6), 844, 71, (3 Subscribers) pp. b/w plates.
Item #:48495
Price: $850
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#6:
Badger, Barber (Horace Kimball).
The Naval Temple.
Barber Badger, ( 1816), Boston
21.5 cm. viii, (9)-322 pp. b/w plates, engraved title page
Item #:48496
Price: $200
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#7:
Ball, J. Dyer.
How to Write Chinese.
Kelly & Walsh, ( 1905), Hong Kong
25 cm. 25, 76, xiii, xix, vi, (1), (publisher's ads) pp. with folding plates illustrating Chinese characters.
Item #:48515
Price: $250
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#8:
Barney, Mary, ed.
A Biographical Memoir of the Late Commodore Joshua Barney.
Gray and Bowen, ( 1832), Boston
23 cm. xvi, 328 pp. b/w frontispiece
Item #:48494
Price: $300
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#9:
Barrington, Hon. Daines.
The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted. A New Edition. With an Appendix, containing Papers on the Same Subject, and on A Northwest Passage by Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S. Illustrated with a map of the North Pole.
James Eastburn & Co., ( 1818), New York
22 cm. xiii-187 pp. b/w wood engraving on title page, folding map.
Item #:48489
Price: $250
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#10:
Bligh, William.
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of the Crew in the Ship’s Boat.
George Nicol, ( 1790), London
27.5 cm. iv, 88 pp. b/w folding maps and plan.
Item #:48473
Price: $4000
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#11:
Bogan, M.L.C.
Manchu Customs and Superstitions.
China Booksellers, Ltd., ( 1928), Tientsin
19.5 cm. xiii, 140 pp. Color and b/w plates, sepia-toned photo reproductions
Item #:49259
Price: $250
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#12:
Burton, CaptainSir Richard F.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah.
Tylston and Edwards, ( 1893), London
Two volumes. 21 cm. xxvii, (4), 436; xii, (4), 479 pp. b/w and chromolithograph frontispieces, colored folding map, color and tinted lithograph plates, folding plans, ills. in text.
Item #:48456
Price: $750
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#13:
Burton, Richard F.
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.
Tylston and Edwards, ( 1893), London
Two volumes, 21 cm. xxi, (2), 256; viii, 305 pp. b/w frontispieces
Item #:48457
Price: $500
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#14:
Campbell, Archibald.
A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812; in Which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands and the Sandwich Islands Were Visited… With an Account of the Present State of the Sandwich Islands, and a Vocabulary of Their Language.
Archibald Constable, ( 1816), Edinburgh
22.5 cm. 288 pp. b/w folding map colored in outline
Item #:48477
Price: $2250
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#15:
Campbell, Archibald.
A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812; in Which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands and the Sandwich Islands Were Visited… With an Account of the Present State of the Sandwich Islands, and a Vocabulary of Their Language.
Broderick and Ritter, ( 1819), New York
18 cm.(3), 4-219 pp. Handcolored folding map
Item #:48478
Price: $350
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#16:
Crosby, Everett U.
Susan’s Teeth and Much About Scrimshaw.
Tetaukimmo Press, ( 1955)), (Nantucket
25.5 cm. 62 pp. plus b/w photo halftone plates.
Item #:48501
Price: $750
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#17:
Denham, H.M.
Sailing Directions from Point Lynas to Liverpool with Charts, Coast Views, River-Sections… for Navigating the Dee and Mersey (with) Sailing Directions… up to Port Fleetwood”
J. & J. Mawdsley, ( 1840), Liverpool
22.5 cm. xx, (2) 169; 26 pp. b/w folding charts, plates, some hand colored.
Item #:48483
Price: $450
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#18:
Drake, Samuel G.
A Brief Memoir of Sir Walter Raleigh; Prepared for and Published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April, 1862.
Author, ( 1862), Boston
28.5 cm. 1, 35, (1) pp. plus extra illustrations bound in
Item #:48459
Price: $7500
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#19:
Gill, Thomas.
Bibliography of South Australia.
E. Spiller, ( 1885), Adelaide
21.5 cm. 118 pp. b/w lithographed title page.
Item #:48516
Price: $125
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#20:
Haddon, A.C. and James Hornell.
Canoes of Oceania.
Bishop Museum, ( 1936, 1937, 1938), Honolulu
Three volumes, 27.5 cm. ix, 454; vi, 342; 88 pp. b/w plates, illustrations in text
Item #:48485
Price: $600
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