Here’s a gathering of the fruits of two recent road trips. In each case I was working toward the future purchase of a large collection, so there was nothing coming forth immediately from those either of those two sources. But, hey – a guy’s gotta eat! So I bought what I could, where I could, enroute, and what you see is the result. I was thinking of naming this list after that ur-trucker song “Six Days on the Road,” but it was only three days in my case.
In other news, I was recently solicited by an obvious AI scam for a product called BiblioScan. The opening sentence read, “You’ve specialized in old and rare books, manuscripts, and charts pertaining to the sea since 1976.” Any time a person starts off by telling me something I already know all too well, I strongly suspect the “person” of being a machine. But not so fast! I snapped off a snotty reply and received an email response from the “person” who’d sent it. She was pissed off that I’d been so rude to her. Can robots do that? I asked my own robot what BiblioScan was and it told me the product would be useful to “thrift-store flippers.” I think I was the one who should have been pissed. Read Maritime List 377 and tell me if you think it could have been the work of a thrift-store flipper.
As usual, we will pay postage on all items shipped within the US. To order a book, please send an email to us at tenpound@tenpound.com listing item number, author and title. Best not to telephone, as I’m frequently out of the office and rely on time-stamped emails to keep everything fist come, first served. Enjoy!
Adams, Thomas R. and David Waters.
English Maritime Books Printed Before 1801.
John Carter Brown Library, ( 1995), Providence, RI
4to. 28 cm. xxxi, 602 pp.
Item #:51213
Price: $125
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Ashley, Clifford W.
The Yankee Whaler.
Houghton Mifflin, ( 1926), Boston
28 cm. xxiv, 379 pp. b/w and color plates.
Item #:51235
Price: $150
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Atherton, John.
Imperial Steel. History of the Isthmian Steamship Company: 1010-1956.
Xlibris Corporation, ( (1999)), n.p.
22 cm. 439 pp.
Item #:51221
Price: $25
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Blaney, Henry.
Journal of Voyages to China and Return. 1851 – 1853.
Privately Printed, ( 1913), Boston
20 cm. xiv, 134 pp. b/w frontispiece.
Item #:51229
Price: $75
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Bray, Maynard and Tom Jackson.
Worthy of the Sea: K. Aage Nielsen and His Legacy of Yacht Design.
Tilbury House and PEM, ( (2006)), Gardiner, ME
Oblong format, 27.5 cm. xvii, (1), 302 pp. b/w plates and plans.
Item #:51212
Price: $65
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Confederate Imprint.
Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States and for the Quartermaster’s and Pay Departments. The Uniform and Dress of the Army.
Bloomfield & Steel, ( 1861), New Orleans
18.5 cm. 262; 100 pp.
Item #:51220
Price: $500
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Cook, James.
Captain Cook’s Voyages Round the World.
M. Brown, ( 1790), Newcastle, UK
Two volumes bound in four, 20 cm. xxvi-512; 513-1622; 498; 499-796. b/w plates, folding chart, folding "Death of Cook" plate.
Item #:51216
Price: $1750
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Dana, Richard H.
The Seamans Friend.
Thomas Groom, ( 1869), Boston
18.5 cm. viii, 225 pp. plus 2 pp. (publisher's ads). 4 b/w plates.
Item #:51209
Price: $150
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Doolittle, Rev. Justus.
Social Life of the Chinese.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1865), New York
b/w plates, ills. 2 vols. xvi-459; xii-490 pp.
Item #:51227
Price: $250
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Douglas, M(ary).
Across Greenland’s Ice-fields.
Thomas Nelson, ( 1899), London
18 cm. vi-218, (2 - publisher's ads) pp. b/w engraved and halftone photo plates.
Item #:51232
Price: $50
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Ephemera.
Antique Packet of 14 Sailmaker’s Needles by James Smith & Son.
Item #:51204
Price: $85
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Ephemera.
Collection of Billheads and Trade Cards for New York Towing firms, 1870s and 80s.
Item #:51222
Price: $100
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Ephemera.
Crew List for Schooner Cornelia Trading in the West Indies, Dated New York, 1804.
Printed sheet 18 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches, accomplished in manuscript.
Item #:51223
Price: $100
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Esquemeling, John.
The Buccaneers of America.
George Routledge & Sons, ( n.d), London
22 cm. xix, 480, (8 - publisher's ads) pp. b/w plates
Item #:51236
Price: $50
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Furlong, Capt. Lawrence.
The American Coast Pilot.
Edmund M. Blunt, ( (1812)), New York
24 cm. xiv, (ii), (17)-311. 63, (9 - ads) pp. 24 cm. xiv, (ii), (17)-311. 63, (9 - ads) pp. Fifteen b/w charts, five of which are folding. Three full-page publishers ads featuring frontal views of the new Blunt publishing house on Water Street in New York.
Item #:51233
Price: $900
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Henderson, Richard.
Philip L. Rhodes and his Yacht Designs.
International Marine, ( (1981)), Camden
28 cm. xiv, (2), 415 pp. b/w plates, ills, plans
Item #:51202
Price: $85
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Irwin, Eyles.
A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route through the Desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European Traveller, in the Year MDCCLXXVII. In Letters to a Lady.
J. Dodsley, ( 1780), London
25.5 cm. xv, (1), 400 pp. full-page b/w plate, b/w view, 3 folding b/w engraved charts.
Item #:51228
Price: $750
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Jackson, Frederick G.
A Thousand Days in the Arctic.
Harper & Brothers, ( 1899), New York and London
22.5 cm. xxi, (2), 940, (4 - publisher's ads) pp. b/w halftone photo plates, 5 folding duotone charts.
Item #:51225
Price: $300
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James, William.
The Naval History of Great Britain.
Richard Bentley, ( 1837), London
Six volumes, 21.5 cm. xxxii, 404; vii, 396, (10 publisher's ad); viii, 376; vi, (2), 375, (1); vii, (1), 404; viii, 567, (1 errata) pp. 24 b/w engraved portraits, 38 diagrams in text, 28 folding "Abstracts" listing vessels of Royal Navy, 1793-1820
Item #:51224
Price: $1250
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Kohl, J.G.
Documentary History of the State of Maine… Containing a History of the Discovery of Maine.
Bailey and Noyes, ( 1869), Portland
22 cm. viii 535 pp. Duotone maps, many folding
Item #:51230
Price: $125
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