San Francisco, Pasadena, New York, and Greenwich, CT – a lot of traveling in a short span of time, but well worth the effort in terms of new acquisitions. Here is a short list of some of the treasures I’ve accumulated over the past few weeks, including a couple of fine color plate books, and some unusual ephemera, as well as a selection of broadsides, books, and manuscripts relating to the sea and its history.
#1:
Bassett, Fletcher S.
Sea Phantoms: Or Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and Sailors in All Lands and at All Times.
( 1892), Chicago
(v)-505 pp. b/w ills. and plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $250
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Bassett, Fletcher S.
Sea Phantoms: Or Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and Sailors in All Lands and at All Times.
( 1892), Chicago
(v)-505 pp. b/w ills. and plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $250
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#2:
Broadside.
Treaty of Peace Signed and Arrived… Great and Happy News for the Public… Portland, Feb. 14 2 oclock in the morning.
Argus-Office, ( 1815), Portland Maine
Folio sheet. 16 x 10 inches.
Item #:37656
Price: $2250
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Broadside.
Treaty of Peace Signed and Arrived… Great and Happy News for the Public… Portland, Feb. 14 2 oclock in the morning.
Argus-Office, ( 1815), Portland Maine
Folio sheet. 16 x 10 inches.
Item #:37656
Price: $2250
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#3:
Cook, James, and James King.
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. (With Plates and Charts from the Atlas Bound In).
H. Hughs, ( 1785), London
Three vol. 4to. (10), xcvi, 421; (12), 548; (10), 556 pp. b/w folding charts and plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $5000
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Cook, James, and James King.
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. (With Plates and Charts from the Atlas Bound In).
H. Hughs, ( 1785), London
Three vol. 4to. (10), xcvi, 421; (12), 548; (10), 556 pp. b/w folding charts and plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $5000
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#4:
Cooke, Edward.
A Voyage to the South Sea.
B. Lintot and R. Gosling, ( 1712), London
(22), 456, (12) pp. b/w folding map as frontispiece. b/w plates, folding maps in text.
Item #:37656
Price: $2000
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Cooke, Edward.
A Voyage to the South Sea.
B. Lintot and R. Gosling, ( 1712), London
(22), 456, (12) pp. b/w folding map as frontispiece. b/w plates, folding maps in text.
Item #:37656
Price: $2000
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#5:
Cowley, Charles.
Leaves from a Lawyer’s Life Afloat and Ashore.
Penhallow Printing Company, ( 1879), Lowell, Mass.
245, (3) pp.
Item #:37656
Price: $150
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Cowley, Charles.
Leaves from a Lawyer’s Life Afloat and Ashore.
Penhallow Printing Company, ( 1879), Lowell, Mass.
245, (3) pp.
Item #:37656
Price: $150
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#6:
Duncan, Archibald.
The British Trident; or, Register of Naval Actions.
( 1804-1805), London
12mo; five volumes. Vol I: xxvi & 313pp, 7 engravings; Vol II: 384pp, 11 engravings; Vol III: 380pp (pages 73-108, dealing with activities in 1783, are missing, and quite obviously, never bound into this volume), 7 engravings; Vol IV: 324pp, 18 engravings, (5, index) & (1, Directions for the plates & errata); Vol V: iv, (5)-350pp, 10 engravings, (7, index) & a single terminal advertisement page. In all 53 engraved plates of naval actions.
Item #:37656
Price: $850
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Duncan, Archibald.
The British Trident; or, Register of Naval Actions.
( 1804-1805), London
12mo; five volumes. Vol I: xxvi & 313pp, 7 engravings; Vol II: 384pp, 11 engravings; Vol III: 380pp (pages 73-108, dealing with activities in 1783, are missing, and quite obviously, never bound into this volume), 7 engravings; Vol IV: 324pp, 18 engravings, (5, index) & (1, Directions for the plates & errata); Vol V: iv, (5)-350pp, 10 engravings, (7, index) & a single terminal advertisement page. In all 53 engraved plates of naval actions.
Item #:37656
Price: $850
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#7:
Dwight, Rev. E. W.
Memoir of Henry Obookiah, A Native of the Sandwich Islands, Who Died at Cornwall, Connecticut, February 17, 1818, Aged 26.
American Tract Society, ( n.d), New York
12mo. 124 pp. b/w engraved frontispiece portrait.
Item #:37656
Price: $75
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Dwight, Rev. E. W.
Memoir of Henry Obookiah, A Native of the Sandwich Islands, Who Died at Cornwall, Connecticut, February 17, 1818, Aged 26.
American Tract Society, ( n.d), New York
12mo. 124 pp. b/w engraved frontispiece portrait.
Item #:37656
Price: $75
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#8:
Ephemera.
Clipper Ship Sailing Card for the Archer.
Color printed card stock 4 x 6 1/2 inches.
Item #:37656
Price: $1000
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Ephemera.
Clipper Ship Sailing Card for the Archer.
Color printed card stock 4 x 6 1/2 inches.
Item #:37656
Price: $1000
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#9:
Ephemera.
Collection of 40 Checks Drawn on Whaling Banks, 1840s and 1850s.
Item #:37656
Price: $400
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Ephemera.
Collection of 40 Checks Drawn on Whaling Banks, 1840s and 1850s.
Item #:37656
Price: $400
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#10:
Ephemera.
Crew List of the Clipper Ship Great Republic. November 7, 1859.
Large folio printed sheet accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:37656
Price: $1250
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Ephemera.
Crew List of the Clipper Ship Great Republic. November 7, 1859.
Large folio printed sheet accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:37656
Price: $1250
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#11:
Ephemera.
Now on Exhibition… Burns’ American Museum… Old Ocean’s Greatest Wonders… The Great Leathery Turtle… Sea Serpent… Blue Shark… The Terror of the Seas!… etc.
( n.d.), n.p.
Single sheet, 7 x 21 inches, printed both sides. b/w wood engraved illustration.
Item #:37656
Price: $1500
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Ephemera.
Now on Exhibition… Burns’ American Museum… Old Ocean’s Greatest Wonders… The Great Leathery Turtle… Sea Serpent… Blue Shark… The Terror of the Seas!… etc.
( n.d.), n.p.
Single sheet, 7 x 21 inches, printed both sides. b/w wood engraved illustration.
Item #:37656
Price: $1500
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#12:
Ephemera.
Trials of a Sailor.
Oblong sheets, 9 x 6 inches, unpaginated. (48) pp of b/w ink cartoons. Ring bound, in gray boards.
Item #:37656
Price: $650
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Ephemera.
Trials of a Sailor.
Oblong sheets, 9 x 6 inches, unpaginated. (48) pp of b/w ink cartoons. Ring bound, in gray boards.
Item #:37656
Price: $650
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#13:
Ephemera.
Two Pay Certificates for $25 and $50, from the Second Texas Navy. Austin April 23, 1841.
Printed form, 7 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches, accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:37656
Price: $650
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Ephemera.
Two Pay Certificates for $25 and $50, from the Second Texas Navy. Austin April 23, 1841.
Printed form, 7 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches, accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:37656
Price: $650
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#14:
Festetics de Tolna, Rodolphe.
Chez les Cannibales. Huit ans de croisiere dans l’Ocean Pacifique a bord du yacht “Le Tolna”
Librarie Plon, ( 1903), Paris
4to. iv-407 pp. b/w halftone plates, folding maps
Item #:37656
Price: $750
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Festetics de Tolna, Rodolphe.
Chez les Cannibales. Huit ans de croisiere dans l’Ocean Pacifique a bord du yacht “Le Tolna”
Librarie Plon, ( 1903), Paris
4to. iv-407 pp. b/w halftone plates, folding maps
Item #:37656
Price: $750
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#15:
Festetics de Tolna, Rodolphe.
Vers l’écueil de Minicoy après huit ans dans l’Océan Pacifique et Indien à bord du Yacht Le Tolna.
Librarie Plon, ( 1904), Paris
4to. (6), 395 pp. b/w halftone plates and ills., folding maps.
Item #:37656
Price: $500
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Festetics de Tolna, Rodolphe.
Vers l’écueil de Minicoy après huit ans dans l’Océan Pacifique et Indien à bord du Yacht Le Tolna.
Librarie Plon, ( 1904), Paris
4to. (6), 395 pp. b/w halftone plates and ills., folding maps.
Item #:37656
Price: $500
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#16:
France. Ministre de la Marine.
La Marine a l’Exposition Universelle de 1878. Atlas Only.
( 1879), Paris
b/w plates. Folio,159 plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $850
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France. Ministre de la Marine.
La Marine a l’Exposition Universelle de 1878. Atlas Only.
( 1879), Paris
b/w plates. Folio,159 plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $850
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#17:
Grimes, J.W. (and others).
The Navy in Congress: Being Speeches of the Hon. Messrs. Grimes, Doolittle and Nye..
Franck Taylor, ( 1865), Washington
53, (1) pp.
Item #:37656
Price: $50
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Grimes, J.W. (and others).
The Navy in Congress: Being Speeches of the Hon. Messrs. Grimes, Doolittle and Nye..
Franck Taylor, ( 1865), Washington
53, (1) pp.
Item #:37656
Price: $50
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#18:
Heco, Joseph.
Narrative of a Japanese.
(American-Japanese Publishing Association), ( n.d. (ca. 1950)), (San Fran.)
2 vols. iii, 346, (6); 254, (6), v pp. b/w ills.
Item #:37656
Price: $200
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Heco, Joseph.
Narrative of a Japanese.
(American-Japanese Publishing Association), ( n.d. (ca. 1950)), (San Fran.)
2 vols. iii, 346, (6); 254, (6), v pp. b/w ills.
Item #:37656
Price: $200
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#19:
Hoola van Nooten, Berthe.
Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l’ile de Java.
Faubourg de Louvain, ( 1866), Brussels
Large folio. (6) pp. plus 40 chromolithograph plates with text descriptions by van Nooten.
Item #:37656
Price: $12500
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Hoola van Nooten, Berthe.
Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l’ile de Java.
Faubourg de Louvain, ( 1866), Brussels
Large folio. (6) pp. plus 40 chromolithograph plates with text descriptions by van Nooten.
Item #:37656
Price: $12500
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#20:
MKay, L. (Lauchlan McKay).
The Practical Ship-Builder.
Collins, Keese & Co., ( 1839), NY
b/w folding plates. Oblong 4to. x-107 pp. plus plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $15000
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MKay, L. (Lauchlan McKay).
The Practical Ship-Builder.
Collins, Keese & Co., ( 1839), NY
b/w folding plates. Oblong 4to. x-107 pp. plus plates.
Item #:37656
Price: $15000
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