Maritime List 321 – Scarce Enough!

No, not hen’s teeth rare, but well off the beaten track, most of them, and Scarce Enough!

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#1:
“Argonaut”. (Edwin Dampier Brickwood)
The Arts of Rowing and Training.
Horace Cox, ( 1866), London
19 cm. x, (2 contents) 164 pp.
Item #:45103
Price: $300
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#2:
(Barnard, Major J.G.)
Maps Illustrating the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
D. Appleton & Company, ( 1852), New York
23 cm. portfolio containing 8 large folding b/w lithographed maps.
Item #:45087
Price: $350
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#3:
Belsham, W.
Memoirs of the Reign of George III.
G.G. and J. Robinson, ( 1795), London
23cm. 364; 431 pp. Volumes I and IV only of four volumes published.
Item #:45090
Price: $350
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#4:
Brady, William.
The Naval Apprentice’s Kedge Anchor.
Frye & Shaw, ( 1841), New York
18.5 cm. 328 pp. b.w frontispiece plus 8 folding litho plates.
Item #:45102
Price: $300
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#5:
Briggs, Richard.
The New Art of Cookery. According to the Present Practice Being a Complete Guide to all Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New, Consisting of Thirty-eight Chapters.
W. Spotswood, ( 1798), Boston
17.5 cm. xxiii, (25), 444 pp.
Item #:45089
Price: $750
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#6:
Burgess, Edward and N. L. Stebbins.
American and English Yachts.
( (1887)), NY
b/w plates. Oblong folio.
Item #:45106
Price: $1250
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#7:
Coffin, G.A.
There She Blows. Or the Story of the Progress.
Arctic Whaling Exhibit Co., ( (1893)), Chicago
18 cm. 46, (1 ad) pp. b/w plates.
Item #:45098
Price: $125
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#8:
(Cowper, William)
The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer.
Joseph T. Buckingham, ( 1814), Boston
4 vol. 23.5 cm. xxiv, 370, (1 errata); 423; 324; 309, (1 errata) pp.
Item #:45094
Price: $500
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#9:
Daboll, Nathan.
Daboll’s Practical Navigator…
Samuel Green, ( 1820), New London
8vo; iv, (4), 106, (2), (104 pages, containing nineteen tables). b/w frontispiece
Item #:45099
Price: $350
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#10:
Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton.
South Sea Sketches.
James R. Osgood, ( 1881), Boston
19 cm. vi - 238 pp.
Item #:45088
Price: $125
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#11:
Ephemera
Deck Plan and Sail Plan of America’s Cup Challenger “Endeavour”
Original blueprints, 32 x 19 1/2 inches.
Item #:45110
Price: $500
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#12:
Ephemera.
Rushton’s Rowboats & Canoes (Cover title).
J.H. Rushton, ( n.d.), Canton, NY
Oblong format, 24 cm. 80 pp. b/w plates throughout.
Item #:45109
Price: $500
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#13:
Henry, John Joseph.
An Accurate Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of That Band of Heroes Who Traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign Against Quebec in 1775.
William Greer, ( 1812), Lancaster (PA)
17cm 225 pp.
Item #:45091
Price: $250
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#14:
Herreshoff, L. Francis.
The Common Sense of Yacht Design.
Rudder Publishing Co., ( (1946, 1948)), New York
30 cm. 157, 176 pp. b/w plates, lines.
Item #:45108
Price: $400
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#15:
Imray, James F.
The Lights and Tides of the World.
James Imray & Son, ( 1878), London
23.5 cm. (18 front matter and index), xl, 218, 56 (publisher's illustrated ads) pp. b/w folding charts and tables. Ills. in text.
Item #:45092
Price: $150
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#16:
Johnson, Robert B.
A History of Rowing in America.
Corbitt & Johnson, ( 1871), Milwaukee
18 cm. 269, (7 contents and adverts) pp. b/w diagrams.
Item #:45097
Price: $275
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#17:
Manuscript
Archive of Business and Personal Papers of the Delano Family, Kingston Mass. and Other Locations, 1794 – 1882.

Item #:45076
Price: $8500
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#18:
Manuscript.
Copy of Letters Sent on the Public Service from His Majesty’s Ship Glasgow, the Honorable Anthony Maitland, C.B. Captain Between the 31st Day of August 1816 and the 5th Day of March 1821
Blank book, 23 cm. Unpaginated (about 350 pp. manuscript entries).
Item #:45079
Price: $6500
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#19:
Manuscript.
Journal of a Voyage to Australia, 1881-82. S.S. Sorata, Orient Line.
Lined notebook, 20 cm. Unpaginated, about 200 pp manuscript entries.
Item #:45085
Price: $1250
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#20:
Manuscript.
Journal of the Proceedings on Board His Majesty’s Ship Stately, George Scott Esq. Captain, Commencing September 14th, 1799… Ending the 9th July 1803.
Three journals, 33 cm. Unpaginated. About 300 pp. manuscript entries.
Item #:45105
Price: $6750
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