Here’s a selection of maritime material that spans the globe and the centuries – from an immaculate true first edition of Esquemeling’s “Pirates of America” (1684-1685), to a collection of fifty letters written by Admiral Hyman Rickover about America’s nuclear submarine fleet.. We have Philip Dumaresq’s own journal of sailing Robert Bennet Forbes’s opium clipper “Antelope” to Bombay and China in 1842, and an illustrated British naval signal manuscript from the Napoleonic wars. There’s John Ledyard’s rare account of Captain Cook’s third voyage with a fine facsimile of the (even rarer) map, a birdseye view of Nantucket, a vintage salt print of the earliest known photograph of the “USS Constitution”, scarce books on piracy and naval history, and some fascinating ephemeral and manuscript material, including photographs and accounts from a 19th century East Boston shipyard. All in all, a veritable treasure trove.
Adams, John.
…Documents… Relative to the Requisition for, and Delivery of Jonathan Robbins…
House of Representatives., ( (1800)), (Phila.)
12mo. 8 pp.
Item #:37799
Price: $250
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Adye, Ralph Willett.
The Bombardier, and Pocket Gunner,
E. Larkin, ( 1804), Boston
12mo. (13), vi, (7)-277 pp.
Item #:37791
Price: $1000
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Anon. (Colton, Walter.)
Ship and Shore: Or Leaves from the Journal of a Cruise to the Levant.
Leavitt, Lord & Co., ( 1835), NY
12mo. 312, (12 adverts) pp.
Item #:37805
Price: $100
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Bartlett, Rev. S.C.
Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board in the Sandwich Islands, Micronesia, and Marquesas.
American Board of Missions, ( 1876), Boston
12mo. 37 pp. b/w frontispiece map.
Item #:37782
Price: $350
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Bowen, Richard LeBaron, Jr.
Five Pamphlets Pertaining to Watercraft of the Near East.
( 1949 - 1952.), Rehoboth and Salem, Mass.
Item #:37797
Price: $150
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Broadside.
Advertising Broadside for F. G. Jackson’s “A Thousand Days in the Arctic.”
Color printed folio sheet, 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches.
Item #:37757
Price: $650
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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), NY
b/w plates. xiii, 580, 8 pp.
Item #:37808
Price: $650
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Chart.
Port Hood, Situated in the North-Western Extremity of the Island of Cape Breton… Published According to Act of Parliament by J.F.W. Des Barres, Esqr. March 4, 1776.
Folio sheet. Image size 21 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches.
Item #:37716
Price: $750
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Damon, Samuel C.
Puritan Missions in the Pacific: A Discourse…
J. Hunnewell., ( 1868), New Haven.
12mo. 48 (1) pp. b/w frontispiece.
Item #:37781
Price: $400
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Du Temple, M.L.
Du Scaphandre et de son Emploi a Bord des Navires.
Arthus Bertrand, ( n.d), Paris
30, (1) pp. folding b/w plate and double page sepia toned plates.
Item #:36539
Price: $1250
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Ephemera
Pay Voucher for USS Constitution, 1826.
Printed sheet 8 x 3 1/4 inches, accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:37793
Price: $500
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Ephemera
Trade Card for Ezra Kelly’s Lubricants.
Color lithograph on card stock 7 x 5 1/2 inches.
Item #:37819
Price: $75
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Ephemera
Whale Ship Outfitting Book. Bark D(r). Franklin. 1861.
12mo. 34 pages of printed entries with manuscript annotations, followed by blanks, several of which contain manuscript notes.
Item #:37809
Price: $650
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Ephemera.
Bill of Lading for Sperm Oil, 1770.
Printed invoice 7 x 5 1/2 inches, accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:37817
Price: $50
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Ephemera.
Clipper Ship Sailing Card. Polynesia and Bill of Lading for Goods Shipped Aboard Her.
Item #:37788
Price: $400
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Ephemera.
Collection of Photographs, Clippings, Documents and Accounts Relating to Brooks Shipyard, East Boston.
Item #:37774
Price: $750
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Ephemera.
Patent Certificates for, and Descriptions of, “Improved Sails for Ships and Other Navigable Vessels,” and “Improvements for Rigging and in the Spars.”
Folio. Seven pages. manuscript description; two pages printed forms accomplished in manuscript; two pages of ink drawings on linen.
Item #:37754
Price: $200
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Ephemera.
Quarantine Clearance for American Whale Ship Benjamin Franklin. Horta, Azores, 1862.
Printed folio sheet accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:37753
Price: $100
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Ephemera.
Rigging Diagram for the Whaling Bark Charles and Edward.
Folio sheet 15 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches, pencil and ink drawing.
Item #:37756
Price: $200
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