Here’s a gathering of diverse and interesting books and manuscripts, mostly maritime, but with a detour past Bunker Hill into 19th century academic racism, with a couple of oddball Melville items to compensate. And of course, lovely Joshua Slocum.
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Culver, Henry B.
Contemporary Scale Models of Vessels of the Seventeenth Century.
Payson & Clarke, ( (1926)), New York
43 cm. xiv, 48 (i.e. 96) pp. Sepia toned photo plates.
Item #:47824
Price: $200
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Ephemera.
Instructions for the Guidance of Captains of Foreign Ships at Portuguese Ports.
Printed folio sheet, 10 x 14 1/4 inches
Item #:47850
Price: $150
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Essex Institute.
Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly Massachusetts. 1789-1900.
Essex Institute, ( 1906), Salem
23 cm. 206 pp. color, b/w plates.
Item #:47819
Price: $200
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Fay, Charles Edey.
Mary Celeste.
Peabody Museum, ( 1942), Salem
25.5 cm. xxvii, 261, (1) pp. Color and b/w plates.
Item #:47834
Price: $45
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Gosse, Philip.
A Bibliography of the Works of Capt. Charles Johnson.
Burt Franklin, ( (1970)), New York
21.5 cm. 80 pp. b/w plate
Item #:47835
Price: $50
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Gosse, Philip.
My Pirate Library.
Dulau and Company, ( 1926), London
75 pp. b/w plates.
Item #:47837
Price: $150
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House of Commons.
Return Showing the Number of Corporal Punishments Inflicted in the Navy… 1869 to 1874… (with) A Bill to Amend the Laws Relating to Corporal Punishment… 1900
British Admiralty, ( 1876 and 1900), London
34 cm. 5 and 1 pp.
Item #:47849
Price: $75
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Hudson, Charles.
Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker’s Hill. Addressed to the Christian Public.
James Munroe and Company, ( 1857), Boston
18.5 cm. 41, (2 publisher's ads) pp. b/w frontispiece.
Item #:47816
Price: $65
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Huntress, Keith.
Narratives of Shipwrecks and Disasters, 1586-1860 (and) A Checklist of Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea to 1860.
Iowa State University Press, ( 1974 and 1979), Ames, IA
23 xxxii, (2), 249 pp. b/w plate and ills. (and) xiv, 194 pp. b/w frontispiece.
Item #:47818
Price: $75
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Ita, Sam. (and Herman Melville).
Moby-Dick. A Pop-Up Book.
Sterling Publishing Co., ( (2007)), New York
28 cm. Seven leaves supporting six pop-ups. Color plates and cut outs.
Item #:47836
Price: $50
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Jarves, James Jackson.
History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands.
James Munroe and Company, ( 1843), Boston
23 cm. xx, 407 pp. b/w frontispiece, engraved title page, folding map, illustrations in text.
Item #:47833
Price: $125
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Kirkham, H.
Des Paquebots à Vapeur.
Imprimerie de Lecouflet et Thomine, ( 1840), Cherbourg, France
20.5 cm. 37 pp.
Item #:47848
Price: $350
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Larcom, Henry.
Distressing Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Margaret of Salem.
(Salem Gazette?), ( (1810)), (Salem, MA?)
11.5 x 19 cm. 12 pp.
Item #:47832
Price: $750
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Lynam, Edward (ed.)
Richard Hakluyt & His Successors.
Hakluyt Society, ( 1946), London
22 cm. 192, lxvii pp. b/w ills.
Item #:47817
Price: $50
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Lyon, Capt. G.F.
A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay… in His Majesty’s Ship Griper in the Year MDCCXXIV.
John Murray, ( 1825), London
xvi, 198, (2) pp. b/w folding map, engraved plates.
Item #:47828
Price: $250
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Manuscript.
California Harbor, No. 15., American Brotherhood of Steamboat Pilots (Cover title).
Pre-printed ledger pages, 30.5 cm. About 75 pp. manuscript entries with news clippings and ephemeral items tipped in.
Item #:47840
Price: $350
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Manuscript.
Collection of Letters from Midshipman George Skene Aboard “HMS Gannet” to his Father James Skene, 1821-1823.
15 manuscript letters totaling about 4500 words, with integral covers and postal markings preserved.
Item #:47841
Price: $2250
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Manuscript.
Journal of a Voyage from Boston to Bombay & Calcutta in the Bark Brothers Commanded by Allen Baxter. Begun October 16th 1849 and Terminated December 16th, 1850.
Pre-printed logbook 34.5 cm. Unpaginated, about 150 pp. manuscript entries. Printed title page with wood engraving of full-rigged ship.
Item #:47851
Price: $2000
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Manuscript.
Letter-press Copy Book of William D. Howland, New Bedford, September 1876 – April 1877.
Bound book of 8 1/2 x 11 inch copy paper, 65 pp. manuscript entries.
Item #:47823
Price: $1250
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