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Maritime List 311 – The Blind Leading the Blind?

June 27, 2022 By

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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Democracy: An American Novel.
#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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Conduct and Character of Lieut. Edward W. Carpender
#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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The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates
#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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Portraits and Lives of Remarkable and Eccentric Characters.
#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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Réunion des Armateurs des iles St-Pierre et Miquelon.
#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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More Seven Club Tales; Found in Mr. Jefferay's Papers...
#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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Brief History of the Isles of Shoals.
#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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Library of Dr. N.B. Shurtleff.
#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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The Library of Samuel Gardner Drake
#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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Catalogue of the Library Belonging to Mr. John A. Rice
#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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A Catalogue of the Books
#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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Volunteer Harbor No. 4. American Association of Masters
#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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The Recruit's Handy Book. United States Navy.
#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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The Sea-Weed Collector's Guide.
#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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Chronicles of Casco Bay.
#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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Castaway's Baedeker to the South Seas.
#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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Eastman Johnson at Nantucket his Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes.
#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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The Last of the Japs and the Jews.
#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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Letter Sheet
#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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Captain JAMES E. JOUETT
#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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