Sea-Fever
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by…
Thanks, Mr. Masefield. I feel you. In my case, however, I must get down to business again. All I ask is books about the sea rather than the sea herself, and a few good customers to steer them toward. It’s been fun rooting around in my shipping container full of every sort of book (image here of Scrooge McDuck in his money bin) except maritime. But now it’s time to get back to what we’re supposed to be doing here, and resume the acquisition and sales of wet books. Fortunately, a wonderful collection centering around the War of 1812 just came in, and I’m offering it fresh to the market in List 351. To access this list, just click on the image or the blue letters above.
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A Cheshire Farmer.
An Enquiry into the State of the Farm.
( n.d.(New Hampshire circa 1808)), n.p.
22.5 cm. 13 pp.
Item #:48052
Price: $250
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A Citizen of New York .
A Biographical Notice of Comm. Jesse D. Elliott; Containing a Review of the Controversy Between him and the Late Commodore Perry; and a History of the Figure-Head of the U.S. Frigate Constitution.
Author, ( 1835), Philadelphia
18.5 cm. 480 pp. b/w diagrams in text.
Item #:48013
Price: $500
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A Citizen of the United States, (George Armroyd).
A Connected View Of The Whole Internal Navigation Of The United States; Natural And Artificial, Present And Prospective…
Item #:48018
Price: $2000
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A Younker. (Cobb, Josiah).
A Green Hands First Cruise… Together with a Residence of Five Months in Dartmoor.
Cushing & Brother; Otis, Broaders, & Company, ( 1841), Baltimore; Boston
19 cm. iv, (4), (13)-278; (2), (5)-329 pp.
Item #:48012
Price: $850
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Abbott, Joel.
Trial of Lieutenant Joel Abbot… on Allegations Made Against Him by Capt. David Porter.
Russell & Gardner, ( 1822), Boston
24 cm. 72, (1 Postscript) pp.
Item #:48003
Price: $300
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An Eyewitness. (Sophia Gertrude Wintz).
Our Blue Jackets.
Hodder and Stoughton, ( 1878), London
17 cm. x, 190, (8 adverts.) pp. b/w frontispiece and plates
Item #:48058
Price: $150
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(Andrews, Charles McLean).
Prisoners Memoirs, or, Dartmoor Prison; Containing a Complete and Impartial History of the Entire Captivity of the Americans in England.
Printed for the Author, ( 1815), New York
18 cm. 283 pp. b/w folding frontispiece plate.
Item #:48064
Price: $750
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Anon.
Cases Decided in the District and Circuit Court… Relative to the Employment of British Licenses on Board of Vessels of the United States
Redwood Fisher, ( 1813), Philadelphia
21.5 cm. (2), 91 pp.
Item #:48059
Price: $250
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Anon.
Charter of the Marine Society of the Town of Newport, in the State of Rhode-Island (and) Charter of the Fellowship Club, Instituted at Newport, R.I… and Incorporated by the Name of the Marine Society.
Newport Mercury (and) James Atkinson, ( 1806 (and) 1853), Newport, RI
(2 second title page)-23 pp. (and) 29 pp. b/w frontispiece and manuscript additions.
Item #:48023
Price: $350
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Badger, Barber (Horace Kimball)
The Naval Temple.
Barber Badger, ( 1816), Boston
21.5 cm. viii, (9)-322 pp. b/w plates, engraved title page
Item #:48045
Price: $250
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Barney, Mary, ed.
A Biographical Memoir of the Late Commodore Joshua Barney.
Gray and Bowen, ( 1832), Boston
23 cm. xvi, 328 pp. b/w frontispiece
Item #:48039
Price: $300
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Blair, F.P.
Permanent Fortifications and Sea Coast Defences.
( 1862), Washington DC
23 cm. 528 pp.
Item #:48014
Price: $150
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(Blyth, Stephen C.)
History of the War Between the United States and Tripoli, and Other Barbary Powers.
Salem Gazette, ( 1806), Salem, MA
17 cm. 144 pp.
Item #:48037
Price: $850
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(Bowen, Abel).
The Naval Monument, Containing Official and Other Accounts of all the Battles Fought Between the Navies of the United States and Great Britain… and an Account of the War with Algiers..
A. Bowen, ( 1816), Boston
21.5 cm. xvi, (2), 316 (3) pp. b/w wood engravings
Item #:48055
Price: $450
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Brannan, John. (editor)
Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers of the United States During the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14, & 15
Way & Gideon, ( 1823), Washington, DC
21 cm. 510 pp.
Item #:48033
Price: $350
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Butler, James.
American Bravery Displayed, in the Capture of Fourteen Hundred Vessels of War and Commerce, Since the Declaration of War by the President
George Phillips, ( 1816), Carlisle, (PA)
16.5 cm. xi, (13)-322, (8 list of subscribers) pp.
Item #:48061
Price: $400
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Colden, Cadwallader D. and William Stone.
Memoir, Prepared at Request of Committee of Common Council of NY, and Presented to Mayor Celebration of Canals Completion.
Corporation of New York, ( 1825), New York
24.5 cm. 408, (2) plus 8 facsimiles pp. b/w plates, facsimiles, folding maps, two in color.
Item #:48019
Price: $7500
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Cooper, James Fenimore.
The History of the Navy of the United States of America.
Lea & Blanchard, ( 1839), Philadelphia
Two volumes, 22.5 cm. xxxvi, (37)-394; 481, (1 "Note") pp. b/w frontispieces, charts.
Item #:48017
Price: $650
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Cooper, James Fenimore.
Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers.
J.C. Derby, ( 1846), Auburn, NY
Two volumes, 19 cm. 252; 264 pp.
Item #:48053
Price: $150
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De Roos, Fred. Fitzgerald.
Personal Narrative of Travels in the United States and Canada in 1826… With Remarks on the Present State of the American Navy.
William Harrison Ainsworth, ( 1827), London
21 cm. xii, 207 pp. b/w lithograph plates, folding frontispiece litho
Item #:48030
Price: $350
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