Maritime List 311 – The Blind Leading the Blind?

Hope not!

This is an assemblage of unusual and offbeat books, documents, and manuscripts relating (mostly) to the sea and its history. Highlights include a couple of WW I Navy recruiting posters (by Charles Dana Gibson and Gordon Grant), a rare map of Newfoundland, some early 18th century New England manuscript material, a bound collection of photographic sales catalogs of ethnographic material from around the world, and a letter sheet featuring Ann Thornton, female marine. Lowlights are a small collection of 19th century suicide related material.

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#1:
Adams, Henry.
Democracy: An American Novel.
Macmillan, ( 1882), London
18.5 cm., 280, (2 adverts) pp.
Item #:44276
Price: $75
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#2:
Anon.
Conduct and Character of Lieut. Edward W. Carpender, During the Short Period of his Services on Board of the U.S. Ship John Adams, in the Years 1831 & 1832.
( 1834), n.p.
23.5 cm. 19 pp.
Item #:44283
Price: $125
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#3:
Anon.
The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates, Their Trials and Executions, Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies, Committed in the West Indias (sic), and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; Also Those Committed on Brig Mexican, who were Executed at Boston in 1835.
Ezra Strong, ( 1837), Hartford
19 cm. 298 pp. b/w wood engravings.
Item #:44258
Price: $125
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#4:
Anon.
Portraits and Lives of Remarkable and Eccentric Characters.
J. Arnett, ( (1819)), Westminster
Two volumes, 19.5 cm. viii, 204; iv, 203 pp.
Item #:44020
Price: $200
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#5:
Anon.
Réunion des Armateurs des iles St-Pierre et Miquelon.
Granville Impr., St-Pierre
27 cm. bifolium, 4 pages of text.
Item #:44288
Price: $200
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#6:
(Austin, John Osborne).
More Seven Club Tales; Found in Mr. Jefferay’s Papers…
(Press of Newport Daily News), ( 1900), (Newport, RI)
21 cm., 101 pp.
Item #:44269
Price: $75
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#7:
Bigelow, Rev. E. Victor.
Brief History of the Isles of Shoals.
Congregational Summer Conference, ( 1923), Andover, MA
18 cm., 72 pp. b/w halftone photo ills. and endpaper map.
Item #:44279
Price: $35
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#8:
(Book auction catalog). Leonard & Co.
Library of Dr. N.B. Shurtleff.
Leonard & Co., ( 1875), Boston
24.5 cm., 92 pp.
Item #:44271
Price: $75
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#9:
(Book auction catalog). Leonard & Co.
The Library of Samuel Gardner Drake, A.M., of Boston.
Leonard & Co., ( 1876), Boston
Two vols. 23.5 cm., x, 574 pp.
Item #:44270
Price: $125
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#10:
(Book auction catalog). Rice, John A. and Joseph Sabin.
Catalogue of the Library Belonging to Mr. John A. Rice, of Chicago Ill. By Bangs, Merwin & Co.
J. Sabin & Sons, ( 1870), New York
24 cm. xvi, 556 pp.
Item #:44273
Price: $175
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#11:
(Book auction catalog). Sabin, Joseph.
A Catalogue of the Books, Autographs, Engravings and Miscellaneous Articles, Belonging to the Estate of the Late John Allan.
Bangs, Merwin & Co., ( 1864), New York
24.5 cm. vi, (2), 343, (1) pp.
Item #:44272
Price: $150
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#12:
Brown, James (and others).
Volunteer Harbor No. 4. American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots.
(A.T. Bliss & Co., printers), ( (1907)), Boston
20 cm., 80 pp. b/w halftones and line ills. throughout.
Item #:44263
Price: $50
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#13:
Bureau of Navigation.
The Recruit’s Handy Book. United States Navy.
Naval Institute, ( 1907), Annapolis, MD
15.5 cm., 100 pp. Color flag plates and b/w ills. in text.
Item #:44266
Price: $50
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#14:
Cocks, J(ohn), M.D.
The Sea-Weed Collector’s Guide.
John Van Voorst, ( 1853), London
12mo, 17.5 cm. xvii, 120 pp. Color frontispiece.
Item #:43779
Price: $125
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#15:
(Colesworthy, Daniel Clement).
Chronicles of Casco Bay.
Sanborn & Carter, ( 1859), Portland, ME
56 pp. b/w plate
Item #:44287
Price: $75
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#16:
Commander Air Force, Pacific Fleet and Joint Intelligence Center.
Castaway’s Baedeker to the South Seas.
( 1943), n.p.
15.5 cm., 100 pp. b/w line ills throughout.
Item #:44294
Price: $75
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#17:
Crosby, Everett U.
Eastman Johnson at Nantucket his Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes.
( (1944)), (Nantucket)
28 cm., 67 pp. b/w halftone repros and plates.
Item #:44275
Price: $250
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#18:
Cruso, Solomon.
The Last of the Japs and the Jews.
Herman W. Lefkowitz, ( (1933)), New York
19.5 cm. 333 (1) pp.
Item #:44257
Price: $125
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#19:
Ephemera
Letter Sheet, “Christmas Piece, Specimen of Handwriting.” Featurning Ann Thornton, the Female Sailor.
( n.d. (circa 1850)), Folio sheet, 15 x 20 inches. b/w wood engravings.
Item #:44280
Price: $1500
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#20:
Ephemera.
Captain JAMES E. JOUETT, U.S. Navy. His Pamphlet Once More.
( n.d. (Circa 1965)), n.p.
Bifolium, 25.5 cm. printed on recto only. 2 pp. text.
Item #:44291
Price: $175
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