Maritime List 374 – Keeping Things in Perspective

No, this is not a scene from last weekend’s Manhattan Rare Book & Fine Press Fair, it’s “Life in the Forecastle,” a plate from J. Ross Browne’s marvelous “Etchings of a Whaling Cruise” (item #3 in this list). Also offered in List 374 are a number of items that were overlooked by shoppers at the show, probably because they were too small, or were covered over by other items, or were blocked from view by bulky attendees – I can’t imagine why else they wouldn’t sell!

It’s a shorter list than usual because I’m getting ready to leave for the London book fairs next week, and I still haven’t prepared my garden for this summer’s planting. Consequently the time available for catalog preparation has been limited. But don’t worry, my snow peas are doing quite well, thank you, and the lawn looks fantastic.

As usual, we will pay postage on all items shipped within the US. To order a book, please send an email to us at tenpound@tenpound.com listing item number, author and title. Best not to telephone, as I’m frequently out of the office and rely on time-stamped emails to keep everything fist come, first served. Enjoy!

#1:
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 #:51063
Price: $750
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#2:
Boston & Hingham Steamboat Co.
Boston & Hingham Steamboat Co. and Nantasket Beach Railroad Co. 1881 Time Table.
Boston & Hingham Steamboat Co., ( 1881), (Boston)
13.5 cm. Unpaginated (28 pp.) Chromolithographs by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
Item #:51083
Price: $75
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#3:
Browne, J. Ross.
Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, With Note of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar. To Which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, Its Past and Present Condition.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1846), New York
22.5 cm. xiii, (2 - half title) 580, 8 (publisher's ads) pp. b/w engraved plates.
Item #:51061
Price: $850
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#4:
Buckingham, J.T.
Boston Musical Miscellany.
J.T. Buckingham, ( 1815), Boston
Two volumes. 15.5 cm. 216; 216 pp. b/w engraved tailpieces
Item #:51075
Price: $200
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#5:
Coffin, Captain George.
A Pioneer Voyage to California and Round the World 1849 to 1852.
(Gorham Coffin), ( (1908)), (Chicago)
22 cm. 235 pp. b/w plates
Item #:51073
Price: $75
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#6:
Conrad, Joseph.
An Outcast of the Islands.
D. Appleton and Company, ( 1896), New York
18 cm. 335 pp. 10 pp. publisher's adverts.
Item #:51072
Price: $125
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#7:
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 #:51070
Price: $600
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#8:
Elliott, Com. Jesse Duncan.
Speech of Com. Jesse Duncan Elliott, U.S.N. Delivered in Hagerstown, Md. on 14th November, 1843.
G.B. Zieber & Co., ( 1844), Philadelphia
23 cm. (2), 82 pp. b/w folding battle plan.
Item #:51071
Price: $150
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#9:
Ephemera. (Floating Dry Dock).
A brief sketch of the plan and advantages of a sectional floating dry dock, combined with a permanent stone basin and platform, and connected with level bedways, sliding ways, and housed slips, for repairing, launching, and laying up in ordinary, the ships of the United States Navy
Jared W. Bell, ( 1844), New York
(1), 32 pp. folding b/w lithographed plate
Item #:51080
Price: $150
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#10:
Hoste, P. Paul.
A Treatise on Naval Tactics.
Bell and Bradfute, ( 1834), Edinburgh
29 cm. xxv, 178 pp. plus errata slip, b/w plates.
Item #:51059
Price: $475
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#11:
James, Edwin (editor).
Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner.
G.& C.& H Carvill., ( 1830), New York.
23.5 cm. 426 pp. b/w frontispiece engraving. Line ills in text.
Item #:51069
Price: $1500
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#12:
Lancey, John.
A Genuine Account of the Burning of the Nightingale Brig.
H. Slater, ( 1754), London
19 cm. 56 pp.
Item #:51081
Price: $400
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#13:
Leibrandt, H.C.V.
Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, December, 1651 – December, 1653.
W.A. Richards & Sons., ( 1897), Cape Town
23.5 cm. v, 255 pp. b/w portraits
Item #:51074
Price: $200
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#14:
Lieutenant Archer
Circumstantial Account of the Wreck of his Majesty’s Ship Phoenix, of 44 Guns, which was Lost in a Hurricane, off Cuba, in the West Indies, in the year 1780, as Communicated by Lieutenant Archer in a Letter to his Mother. Also, the Sufferings of Francis Pirard De Laval, on the Maldiva Islands.
Thomas Tegg, ( (1810)), London
18 cm. 28 pp. b/w folding aquatint frontispiece
Item #:51077
Price: $200
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#15:
Lindsay, Benjamin.
New Bedford and Fairhaven Signal Book. 1842.
William C. Taber, ( 1842), New Bedford
19 cm. v, 87 pp. Hand-colored illustrations of whaling signal flags.
Item #:51065
Price: $1250
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#16:
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
Tales of a Wayside Inn.
Ticknor and Fields, ( 1863), Boston
17.5 cm. v, (2), 225, 22 (publisher's ads) pp. b/w engraved extra title page.
Item #:51068
Price: $500
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#17:
Manuscript.
Log of “HMS Ruby.” Commanded by Capt. R.M. Molyneux. Kept by J. De C Hamilton. Commencing Jan 21st 1879, Ending Oct 31st, 1879.
Folio journal, 33 cm. Unpaginated, about 100 pp. manuscript entries. With 11 b/w and colored charts and drawings
Item #:51060
Price: $750
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#18:
Manuscript.
Log of the Proceedings of “HMS Undaunted.” Edward Harvey Esq. Capt. Commencing 13th Nov. 1830 and Ending 10th Feb. 1834. Kept by James Hamilton, Mid.
Folio journal, 32 cm. Unpaginated, about 275 pp. 12 full page and folding charts, shaded or colored in outline, and 3 recognition views, one of which is colored
Item #:51057
Price: $1250
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#19:
Manuscript.
Log of Whaleship Napoleon, 1858-1862.
Folio, 33.5 cm. 229 pp. manuscript entries.
Item #:51054
Price: $5750
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#20:
Manuscript.
Sailing Directions from Beavertail Light, Rhode Island, to Long Island Sound and Throg’s Neck, New York, 1876.
24 cm. 8 pp. manuscript entries. About 2000 words.
Item #:51076
Price: $125
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