Maritime List 365 – What’s New?

Thought I’d try to squeeze one more list in before we hit the BLACK FRIDAY – XMAS CONSUMPTION FRENZY in which Ten Pound Island Book Company, short on frenzy this year, will not be participating. Instead, I’ll be completing the 2025 Annual Report for the Galen Fund, our 501(c).(3) charity that supports survivors of gun violence. To put you in a happy, relaxed mood for donating, each of these annual reports comes with a little piece of original writing. If you’d like a copy of this year’s Galen Fund Annual Report just send me an email. They’re free! Meanwhile, here’s a list of 26 recent arrivals – as diverse and interesting a lot as I’ve put up in a while.

#1:
Chamberlayne, Charles F.
Is it Sport or Business for Buzzard’s Bay Towns?
Rockwell and Churchill, ( 1892), Boston
41 pp. b/w folding map.
Item #:50061
Price: $50
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#2:
Du Cane, Peter.
High-Speed Small Craft.
Cornell Maritime Press, ( n.d), Cambridge, MD
24.5 cm. ix, 278 pp. b/w plates, endpaper diagrams in blue
Item #:50056
Price: $90
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#3:
Ephemera.
Port Passage Permit for Massachusetts Ship and Crew, Falmouth (Maine), 1779.
Pre-printed permit measuring 17 x 10.5 cm., accomplished in manuscript
Item #:50055
Price: $1250
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#4:
Farwell, R. F.
Captain Farwell’s Hansen Handbook.
Lowman & Hanford Co., ( (1931)), Seattle
18.5 cm. xxxii, 479 pp. b/w recognition views in text.
Item #:50048
Price: $275
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#5:
Hutchinson, William.
A Treatise on Naval Architecture Founded Upon Philosophical and Rational Principles, Towards Establishing Fixed Rules for the Best Form and Proportional Dimensions in Length, Breadth and Depth, of Merchant Ships in General, and also the Management of them to the Greatest Advantage, by Practical Seamanship..
T. Billinge, ( 1794), Liverpool
25.5 cm. xv, (1), 303 (1) pp. plus plates. b/w engraved frontispiece. 12 plates, plans. one folding.
Item #:50051
Price: $1750
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#6:
Kipling, Rudyard.
Captains Courageous.
The Century Co., ( 1897), New York
19 cm. viii, (2),323 pp. b/w frontispiece and plates
Item #:50049
Price: $150
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#7:
Knox, John.
An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America, for the Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760: Containing the Most Remarkable Occurrences of that Period; Particularly the Two Sieges of Quebec…
For the AUTHOR, ( 1769), London
Two volumes, 26 cm. ix, (6 - List of Subscribers), 405; 465, (1 - Errata) pp. b/w engraved frontispieces. b/w engraved headpiece over Dedication and b/w engraved folding map in volume I. b/w engraved frontispiece in volume II
Item #:50038
Price: $5500
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#8:
Mall, Thomas .
The History of the Martyrs Epitomised. A Cloud of Witnesses; or, the Sufferers Mirrour, Made up of the Swanlike Songs, and Other Choice Passages of a great Number of MARTYRS and CONFESSORS, to the End of the Sixteenth Century, in their Treaties, Speeches, Letters, Prayers, &c. in their Prisons, or Exiles; at the Bar, or Stake, &c
Rogers and Fowle, ( 1747), Boston
Two volumes bound together, 20 cm. (14), 267, (2 - Subscribers); (2 - half title), xi, (1), 288, (6 - Appendix), (1 - Publisher's catalog) pp.
Item #:50039
Price: $1250
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#9:
Manuscript.
Log of Whaleship Napoleon, 1858-1862.
Folio, 33.5 cm. 229 pp. manuscript entries.
Item #:50037
Price: $7500
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#10:
Manuscript.
Petition for Convoy from Barbados to American Colonies, February 23, 1760
Folio sheet, 23 x 37 cm. accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:50044
Price: $850
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#11:
Manuscript.
Reminiscences of an Ancient Mariner. by Captain John J. Giles
Manuscript in pencil on 37 folio sheets of lined paper, about 7500 words.
Item #:50057
Price: $900
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#12:
Manuscript.
Le Souvenir: F.G. CH. Picard. 1860.
22.5 cm. 260 pp. of manuscript in two columns per page, with 7 full-page ink drawings, 21 smaller drawings, and 5 colored maps.
Item #:50035
Price: $2500
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#13:
Manuscript. “The Hand of Providence is against the PEIRCE family”
Log of the Whale Ship Marion. North Atlantic and Indian Ocean, 1859-1863.
Folio, 35 cm. Unpaginated, about 250 pp. manuscript entries, with 60 whale and fluke stamps.
Item #:50036
Price: $8500
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#14:
Marlet (Jean Henri)
Nouveaux Tableaux de Paris.
Oblong folio, 34 cm. Unpaginated. 31 colored lithographs with text opposite.
Item #:50046
Price: $1250
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#15:
May, J. Wilder and F.W. Bird.
Arguments Against Appropriation for Cape Cod Harbor, Before the Joint Committee on Harbors.
Wright & Potter, ( 1868), Boston
23 cm. 36 pp.
Item #:50059
Price: $50
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#16:
Melville, Herman.
Mardi: and a Voyage Thither.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1849), New York
19.5cm. xii, (13)-365; xii, (9)-387, 8 (publisher's ads) pp.
Item #:50040
Price: $1250
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#17:
Murrell, William Meacham.
Cruise of the Frigate Columbia Around the World.
Benjamin Mussey, ( 1840), Boston
12mo. 230, (2 - abstract log and list of vessels) pp.
Item #:50053
Price: $350
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#18:
Noah, Mordecai M.
Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States: in the Years 1813-14 and 15.
Kirk and Mercein, ( 1819), New York
21.5 cm. vi, (1 - errata), 431, xlvii pp. b/w engraved frontispiece and plates, one folding
Item #:50041
Price: $750
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#19:
Photograph.
Albumen Photograph of a Patent Model of a Portable Light Tower.

Item #:50054
Price: $350
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#20:
Preble, Capt. George Henry.
The First Cruise of the United States Frigate Essex.
Essex Institute, ( 1870), Salem
23.5 cm. 108 pp.
Item #:50058
Price: $75
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