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Early in June I’ll post a general list of books from the Whale. This will be followed by a list of rare maritime books, manuscripts, and documents at the end of June.

#1:
Adanson, M(ichel).
A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the River Gambia.
J. Nourse, ( 1759), London
xiii, (1), 337, (1 errata) pp. b/w folding map.
Item #:48490
Price: $500
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#2:
Anon.
Papers Relating to America Presented to the House of Commons, 1809.
A. Strahan, ( 1810), London
21 cm. viii, 178, (4 index) pp.
Item #:48491
Price: $250
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#3:
Anon.
Three Albums of Pressed Seaweed and Mosses.

Item #:49344
Price: $1750
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#4:
Arnold, Thomas.
The American Practical Lunarian, and Seaman’s Guide.
Robert Desilver, ( 1822), Philadelphia
21 cm. xviii, (6), 844, 71, (3 Subscribers) pp. b/w plates.
Item #:48495
Price: $850
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#5:
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 #:48496
Price: $200
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#6:
Barber, John Warner.
Historical Scenes in the United States.
Monson and Co., ( 1827), New-Haven
15.5 cm. 120 pp. Folding b/w frontispiece maps, title page engraving, 48 wood engraved American scenes on 16 full-page plates.
Item #:49274
Price: $300
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#7:
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 #:48494
Price: $300
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#8:
Beston, Henry.
The Outermost House.
Doubleday Doran, ( 1928), Garden City, NY
20.5 cm. xv, (3), 223 pp. b/w halftone photo plates.
Item #:49356
Price: $2000
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#9:
Bowditch, Nathaniel.
Chart of the Harbors of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly and Manchester From a Survey Taken in the Years 1804, 5 & 6 by Nathl. Bowditch (and) Directions for Sailing Into the Harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly, and Manchester.
Edmund M. Blunt, ( 1806), Newburyport, MA
b/w copper engraved chart on heavy paper, 79 x 66 cm. (and) 21.5 cm. v, (6)-30 pp.
Item #:49350
Price: $15000
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#10:
Bowditch, Nathaniel.
The New American Practical Navigator (bound with) An Appendix to the New American Practical Navigator.
Edmund M. Blunt, ( 1802 (and) 1804), Newburyport
22 cm. xvi, 17-246, (plus "Tables," "Sea Terms," "Explanation." "Evolutions at Sea"), 533-589, (3), (4 publisher's ads) pp. (bound with) (40), (1 publisher's ad) pp. 7 b/w plates and folding chart as frontispiece.
Item #:49347
Price: $10000
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#11:
Burgoyne, Lieutenant General John.
A State of the Expedition from Canada, as Laid Before the House of Commons.
J. Almon, ( 1780), London
28 cm. viii, 140, lxii (Appendix), (1 - Advertisement) pp. Plus Atlas containing six folding b/w maps with hand coloring.
Item #:49283
Price: $7500
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#12:
Burton, Richard F.
A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.
Tylston and Edwards, ( 1893), London
Two volumes, 21 cm. xxi, (2), 256; viii, 305 pp. b/w frontispieces
Item #:48457
Price: $500
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#13:
Cozzens, Frederick S.
Ice Boating on the Hudson.
Scribners, ( 1884), New York
Matted color lithograph. Image size 20 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches
Item #:49398
Price: $1250
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#14:
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 #:49346
Price: $200
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#15:
Dow, Arthur Wesley and Everett Stanley Hubbard.
By Salt Marshes.
Privately Printed, ( 1908), (Ipswich, MA)
23.5 cm. (32) pp. Seven color wood block prints, plus title, colophon, endpaper, and head- and tailpiece vignettes.
Item #:49365
Price: $6000
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#16:
Ephemera.
Last Will and Testament of British Privateersman John Murphy. New York, 1779.

Item #:49371
Price: $850
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#17:
Ephemera.
Seaman’s Protection Certificate for Zadoch McFarland, District of Boston and Charlestown, 1861.
Single sheet, 19.5 x 26 cm. Pre-printed form accomplished in manuscript. With custom house blind stamp in left margin.
Item #:49376
Price: $250
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#18:
(Fulton, Robert).
Letter… Exhibiting Certain Preliminary Experiments which have been Made in the City and Harbor of New York… for the Purpose of Trying the Practical Use of the Torpedo or Sub-Marine Explosion.
A. and G. Way, ( 1811), Washington DC
21 cm. 55 pp. b/w line ills in text.
Item #:49370
Price: $350
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#19:
Gorges, Sir Fernando.
America Painted to the Life. A True History of the Originall Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into Those Parts… Written by Sir Ferdinando Gorges…
Nathaniel Brook, ( 1658), London

Item #:49282
Price: $
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#20:
Greenleaf, Moses.
A Survey of the State of Maine in Reference to Its Geographical Features. Illustrated by Maps (and) Atlas Accompanying Greenleaf’s Map and Statistical Survey of Maine.
Shirley and Hyde, ( 1829), Portland
21.5 cm. viii, 468 pp. (and) 33.5 cm. Seven folding hand colored maps.
Item #:49267
Price: $9000
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