The Sea and its History, Mostly... books charts manuscripts photographs ephemera

Here’s a short, varied list of modestly-priced books, photographs, and manuscripts pertaining mostly to the sea and its history.

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#1:
Anon (Carrington Bowles).
The Self Instructor or Young Man’s Best Companion.
Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, ( n.d.), Liverpool
21.5 cm. (2), 593, (3 - contents) pp b/w engravings
Item #:49883
Price: $50
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History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore; with an Inquiry into its Origin and Treatment: and Suggestions for the Prevention of Future Discontent in the Royal Navy.

#2:
Anon.
History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore; with an Inquiry into its Origin and Treatment: and Suggestions for the Prevention of Future Discontent in the Royal Navy.
Thomas Tegg, ( 1842), London
15.5 cm. xii, 415 pp. b/w frontispiece portrait
Item #:49891
Price: $75
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#3:
Anon. (Roland Mainwaring)
The First Five Years of My Married Life.
F. Crewe for the Author, ( 1853), Newcastle (UK)
19 cm. x-264 pp.
Item #:49881
Price: $1250
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#4:
Besant, Annie.
Autobiographical Sketches.
Freethought Publishing Company, ( 1885), London
18 cm. 169, 32 - Catalog of Freethought publications dated November 1889 - pp. b/w albumen portrait of Besant as frontispiece.
Item #:49889
Price: $200
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A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed with Memoirs of his Life.

#5:
Collingwood, G. L. Newnham.
A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed with Memoirs of his Life.
G. & C. & H. Carvill, ( 1829), New York
23 cm. xiv, 422 pp. b/w engraved folding frontispiece battle plan and portrait.
Item #:49888
Price: $200
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#6:
Cooper, Thomas.
Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae. Accessit Dictionarium historicum et poeticum propria vocabula virorum, mulierum, sectarum, popularum, urbium, montium, & caeterorum locorum complectens
Impressum Londini, ( 1573), 30.5 cm.
Item #:49898
Price: $800
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#7:
Foote, Commander Andrew H.
Africa and the American Flag.
D. Appleton & Co., ( 1854), New York
12 x 20 cm. 390, (18 publisher's ads) pp. Colored and duotone lithograph plates.
Item #:49894
Price: $150
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#8:
Glascock, Capt. W. N.
The Naval Officers Manual
Parker, Furnival & Parker, ( 1848), London
21 cm. x, 415 pp. b/w line ills.
Item #:49890
Price: $125
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#9:
(Gold Rush) Manuscript.
Six Letters Sent by Charles B. Manning Regarding the Voyage of the Cape Ann Pioneers from Cape Ann Massachusetts to San Francisco, and Work in the Mines at Horseshoe Bend, California. February 1849 June 1850.

Item #:49901
Price: $4750
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#10:
Griffiths, Captain Anselm John.
Impressment Fully Considered, with a View to Its Gradual Abolition.
J.W. Norie and Co., ( 1826), London
21.5 cm. vii, (2 - contents), 262, (1 errata) pp.
Item #:49892
Price: $350
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#11:
(Hanway, Jonas.)
Proposal for Country Naval Free Schools, to be Built on Waste Lands. Giving such Effectual Instructions to Poor Boys as may Nurse them for the Sea Service. Teaching Them Also to Cultivate the Earth.
(Marine Society), ( 1783)), (London
Eight engraved b/w plates (five double page, two folding), an engraved folding table, and two engraved vignettes (one on the title page and the other on the first page of the dedication). Folio. iv, (1), x-xxii (lacking pp. v-viii, as do all known copies), (2), 90, (4), 91-112, (engraved title page for Songs), (blank), 115-120, 120*, (1), 121-141, (blank), 47 pp. of engraved music scores, (three blank pages), engraved title, (blank), v, (blank), (2), 67 pp.
Item #:49902
Price: $2000
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#12:
Livesey, Rev. R. (i.e. Herbert, Charles.)
A Relic of the Revolution.
Geo. C. Rand, ( 1854), Boston
16.5 cm. 264 pp. b/w plates, extra engraved title and frontispiece
Item #:49895
Price: $150
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#13:
Manuscript.
Letter Book of Nathaniel Matthews, Clipper Ship Captain and Master of “Morning Star III” 1865 – 1872.
Blank notebook 26.5 cm. Unpaginated, about 75 pp. with manuscript mostly on recto only.
Item #:49358
Price: $850
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#14:
Manuscript.
Naval Officer’s Commonplace Book and Summary of US Schooner “Boxer’s” Voyage from Norfolk to the Pacific Station, 1834-1837.
8vo notebook, 21cm. Unpaginated, about 60 pp.
Item #:49903
Price: $350
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#15:
Manuscript.
Thomas Dingleys Book Containing Acco’t of the Brigg George & Harriet (? Variously spelled), August, 1794 – December 1795.
31.5 cm. 24 pp. entries in folio ledger, plus 54 pages of individual accounts
Item #:49904
Price: $350
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#16:
Marryat, Capt. (Frederic)
The Travels and Romantic Adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, and Western Texas.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1843), New-York
24 cm. 133, 4 - publisher's ads. pp.
Item #:49882
Price: $125
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#17:
Marryat, Captain (Frederic).
The King’s Own.
Frederick Warne & Co., ( n.d.), London
19 cm. 160 pp.
Item #:49880
Price: $35
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#18:
Marryat, Captain (Frederic).
The Phantom Ship.
D. Appleton, ( 1872), New York
19 cm. 399, (8 - publisher's ads) pp.
Item #:49879
Price: $75
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#19:
McNally, William.
Evils and Abuses in the Naval and Merchant Service Exposed; With Proposals for their Remedy and Redress.
Cassady and March, ( 1839), Boston
18 cm. viii, 201 pp.
Item #:49900
Price: $125
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#20:
Norie, J.W.
Falconer Improved and Modernized. The Mariners New and Complete Naval Dictionary.
J. D. Dewick, ( 1804), London
21.5 cm. 484 pp. Handcolored and b/w copper plate engravings.
Item #:49878
Price: $250
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