Maritime List 268 – Modest Books and Hen’s Teeth

Here is a list of modestly priced and broadly ranging books about the sea and its history – Arctic to tropic, east to west – with a couple of hen’s teeth thrown in. Specifically Cutbush on naval medicine and a rare edition of the Jewett account, as well as a scarce work on the traditional sailing craft of Indochina. The sooner you buy all these, the sooner I’ll issue my next catalog, consisting of maritime manuscripts and documents – Wet Paper II. As usual, there are no charges for postage or insurance within the US.

Enjoy the list, and stay warm!

#1:
Anon.
Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy.
J.L. Marks, ( n.d), London
12mo. Unpaginated (12 pp.) b/w wood engravings.
Item #:40516
Price: $125
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#2:
Anon.
The Mariner’s Chronicle, of Shipwrecks, Fires, Famines and other Disasters at Sea; Containing Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities and Providential Deliverances Which Have Resulted from Maritime Enterprise, both in Europe and America; Together with an Account of the Whale fishery, Sketches of Nautical Life, Steam Boat Disasters, &c
Charles Gaylord, ( 1834), Boston
Two volumes. viii-335; vi-336 pp. b/w engravings.
Item #:40542
Price: $450
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#3:
Congress Senate Committee on Military Affairs.
Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska.
GPO, ( 1900), Washington DC
4to. vii, (4), 5-856 pp. b/w folding maps and plates.
Item #:40546
Price: $350
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#4:
Cutbush, Edward.
Observations on the Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers and Sailors; and on the Duties of the Medical Department of the Army and Navy: with Remarks on Hospitals and Their Internal Arrangement.
Thomas Dobson, ( 1808), Philadelphia
xvi, (1)-336, (3)-14 pp.
Item #:40502
Price: $2000
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#5:
Dennis, James Teackle.
On the Shores of an Inland Sea.
J.B. Lippincott, ( 1895), Philadelphia
79 pp. b/w ills. and frontispiece.
Item #:40540
Price: $75
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#6:
Elder, William.
Biography of Elisha Kent Kane.
Childs & Peterson and Phillips, Sampson & Co., ( 1858), Philadelphia and Boston
416 pp. b/w engraved frontispiece and title.
Item #:40519
Price: $50
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#7:
Fiala, Anthony.
Fighting the Polar Ice. With an Introduction by W. S. Champ, and Reports by William J. Peters, Russell W. Porter and Oliver S. Fassig.
Doubleday, Page & Company, ( 1907), New York
xxii, 296, (6 appendix) pp. b/w and color plates, folding duotone map.
Item #:40524
Price: $100
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#8:
Forbes, R.B.
An Interesting Memoir of the Jamestown Voyage to Ireland.
James B. Cullen & Company, ( 1890), Boston
15 pp., printed on recto only. b/w frontipiece.
Item #:40528
Price: $125
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#9:
Gould, Laurence M.
Cold: The Record of an Antarctic Sledge Journey.
Brewer, Warren & Putnam, ( 1931), New York
ix, 275 pp. Color frontispiece, b/w photo plates, folding map.
Item #:40509
Price: $50
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#10:
Greely, A. W.
The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century, Their Discovery and Industrial Evolution.
Little, Brown & Co., ( 1928), Boston
x, 270 pp. b/w plates, folding color map.
Item #:40515
Price: $50
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#11:
Greely, Adolphus.
Report of the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land.
GPO, ( 1888), Washington
4to. 2 vols., viii, 545; vi, 738 pp. b/w plates. Folding maps and tables, duotone charts.
Item #:40501
Price: $100
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#12:
Harrisse, Henry.
Decouverte et Evolution Cartographique de Terre-Neuve.
Gregg Press, ( (1968)), Ridgewood, NJ
4to.lxxii, 416 pp. b/w plates.
Item #:40523
Price: $50
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#13:
Healy, Capt. M.A.
Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean… 1885.
GPO, ( 1887), Washington
4to. 102 pp. b/w ills, folding charts, color plates.
Item #:40503
Price: $100
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#14:
Horsburgh, James.
India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from the East India, China.
Wm. H. Allen and Co., ( 1843), London
4to. (3), 815, (12) pp.
Item #:40533
Price: $300
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#15:
Jewitt, John R.
A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Ship Boston, During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound…
Loomis & Richards, ( 1815), Middletown, CT
12mo. 203 pp. b/w woodcut frontispiece and plate.
Item #:40512
Price: $3500
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#16:
Johnson, Samuel, Christopher Smart & Oliver Goldsmith (eds.)
The World Displayed or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, selected from the Writers of all Nations.
1760 - 1774
b/w engraved plates, maps. 20 vols. 16mo. Various paginations.
Item #:40541
Price: $1250
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#17:
Kane. Elisha Kent.
Arctic Explorations: The Second and Last Grinnell Expedition in Search of John Franklin.
T. Nelson and Sons, ( 1870), London
Small 8vo. x, 510 pp. b/w engravings, folding duotone map.
Item #:40525
Price: $125
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#18:
Keely, Robert N. and G.G. Davis.
In Arctic Seas: The Voyage of the “Kite” with the Peary Expedition Together with a Transcript of the Log of the “Kite”.
Rufus C. Hartranft, ( 1892), Philadelphia
vii, 524 pp. b/w plates and ills.
Item #:40518
Price: $75
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#19:
Labillardiere, Jacques Julien Houten de.
An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Pérouse Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792 and 1793 in the Recherche and Esperance, Ships of War, Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d’Entrecasteaux. Translated from the French of M. Labillardiere.
J. Debrett, ( 1800), London
lxii, (1 errata) 464; vii (1 errata), 422 pp.
Item #:40530
Price: $250
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#20:
Life-Saving Service.
Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for… 1881.
GPO, ( 1881), Washington
232 pp. b/w ills.
Item #:40526
Price: $75
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