The Blackwall Frigates by Lubbock, Basil - 1922

Philadelphia: H. G. Leisenring's Steam House. Very Good. 1867. First Edition. Soft Cover. Peach colored paper covers with black titles. Interior of booklet is tight, clean & intact. United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Co. Includes a history of the formation of the joint companies monopoly. First Joint Report. New Jersey Canals ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages .

Voyageurs, Robes Noires, et Coureurs de Bois. By C.U. Clark. 1934 1st Edition Columbia University Institute of French Studies, Inc. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Stories from the French Exploration of North America, selected and edited by the venerable and renowned Charles Upson Clark, Ph.D: English title is: Travellers, Black Robes, and Wood-runners. Scarce. HARDCOVER. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy blue cloth boards with large gilt titling. No titling remains on spine. 5 ¾ X 8. 374 pages, indexed. Time period covered is 17th and 18th Centuries. JESUITS. ANTHROPOLOGY. SOCIAL SCIENCES. HISTORY OF FRANCE. HISTORY OF CANADA. CANADIANA. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Clark was the first archaeologist in the world to translate The Badianus Manuscript, aka The Codex Barberini, an Aztec compendium on traditional herbal medicine dating from the Fourteenth Century. Will ship from Oregon.

First edition, hardcover, 1879, Washington. Large heavy book has been professionally recased using original boards and spine, new endpapers. Paginates complete with all images and maps (13 European, 8 Inuit). Large folding map in rear pocket backed with linen, two panels with marbled paper over linen. Frontis portrait is heavy brittle stock and looks to have been reattached. Excellent interior with no ownership markings, no foxing, all images bright. Binding is sound. Boards show moderate patina, stains, etc but gilt remains bright. Old spine laid down over matching cloth looks rough but is not fragile. Arctic Biblio 6486. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Hall did not survive his 3rd voyage so Nourse sorted through Hall's voluminous notes and artifacts to produce this report. Contains some high quality images on plates and is packed with interesting images embedded in text.

Gene Duncan Books, 1991. VG. Minor edge wear to cover (especially lower edge -- may have originated in manufacture); upper spine slightly bumped; spine has crease down center; one small mark on cover. Interior pristine. A beautiful bright copy! Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Hardcover Cloth 156 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1988. Nice white boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. A book on the building and embellishment, the rigging and armaments of the Vasa, the Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628. The book includes comparative studies of Danish, English and Dutch shipbuilding methods of the time.

Shipmasters' Society, London, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A Volume containing a Series of Papers from the Shipmasters’ Society, London 1896-1899. Includes Seventh Session, Course of Papers No. 45: April 1896, Why the Officers of the Mercantile Marine Should be Members of a Shipmasters’ Society by W Caius Crutchley; Eighth Session, Course of Papers No. 46, October 1986, Introductory Address to the Members by Rt Hon. Sir Charles W Dilke; Legal Duties of the Shipmaster at Home and Abroad by Benedict W Ginsburg; Course of Papers No. 47, November 1986 Notes on Details of Steamship Construction by Captain M J Butcher; Course of Papers No. 48, January 1897 The Detection of Inflammable Gas and Vapour on board Ships by Professor F Clownes; Course of Papers No. 49 February 1987, Sea Apprentices of the British Merchant Navy by William Allingham; Course of Papers No. 50 & 51 April 1987, Hints on Elementary Stability with Some Remarks on the Carriage of… Read More

Somers Point: Wm. A. Haffert, 1914. First Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. (44)pp; illus throughout from photographs, mostly full-page. Views include: Shore Road, Looking North from New Jersey Avenue; Somers' Homestead; Jane Anderson Homestead; Angler's Club; New $250,000 Auto Bridge to Ocean City; Somers Point Fire Company; Wyndgale Residence; Bungalow of Miss Elizabeth Steen; Schick's Hotel; many private residences on Shore Road, Annie Avenue, Maryland Avenue, Cedar Ave, etc.; &c. Printed yellow wrappers. 5" x 8" 6. [WorldCat locates only the Rutgers U holding of this interesting viewbook.].

Albany, N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes, part 1 . Text and tables; part 2. Maps and profiles. PART ONE ONLY. Clean black cloth with gilt decorated spine. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. (i-x) 1020pp. Illustrated with 5 fold-out plans, 2 of which are mended with Document repair tape at folds. Plus numerous tables and index.. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Prior owner ink stamp first & last pages. New York Canals ; Tables, fold out plates; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1020 pages .

New York, Grove Press Inc, 1981, hardcover, 111 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing stated, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge and corner nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The prolific playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and author takes us to a merchant marine ship sailing the Great Lakes where eight crew members talk about sex, gambling, drinking, and fighting to relieve the boredom. ISBN 9780394519524

Profusely illustrated review of the French Navy in the 19th century with engraved title page, 8 finely handcolored plates of men in uniform and 1 of flags of the Nautical Powers, 22 full-page steel engravings of ships and maritime scenes, and over 100 engravings and vignettes in the text by Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio. 240 pp, 31 plates, text in French.The costume plates are handcolored lithographs by the famous Pauquet Brothers after illustrations by Andre Castan, A. Gusman, P. Goyer, Louis, etc., and show ranks from Admiral to Matelot. The steel plates by de Tournemine, E. Isabey, Morel-Fatio, etc., show famous French ships of the line, nautical scenes, historical events.The vignettes by Morel-Fatio show many different types of vessels as well as life on board sailing ships, in the rigging, on deck and below decks. Condition: Covers a little frayed, binding tight, ex-library stamp Marinens Bibliotek on frontis and barcode on front endpaper, some slight browning and foxing throughout. Antoine Leon… Read More