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A Diary of the Wreck of His Majesty's Ship Challenger, on the Western Coast of South America, in May, 1835. With an Account of the Subsequent Encampment of the Officers and Crew, During a Period of Seven Weeks, on the South Coast of Chili by ROTHERY, Lieutenant G. A. J - 1836

by ROTHERY, Lieutenant G. A. J

A Diary of the Wreck of His Majesty's Ship Challenger, on the Western Coast of South America, in May, 1835. With an Account of the Subsequent Encampment of the Officers and Crew, During a  Period of Seven Weeks, on the South Coast of Chili by ROTHERY, Lieutenant G. A. J - 1836

A Diary of the Wreck of His Majesty's Ship Challenger, on the Western Coast of South America, in May, 1835. With an Account of the Subsequent Encampment of the Officers and Crew, During a Period of Seven Weeks, on the South Coast of Chili

by ROTHERY, Lieutenant G. A. J

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(London): Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good.. 8vo. (iv); 160 pages. Large folding panoramic lithographic frontispiece, folding map, plate, folding lithograph plate, some foxing mainly to the folding plates. Bookplate of Edward Joseph Dent. Contemporary half calf neatly rebacked with the original spine relaid. "The Challenger, commanded by Sir Michael Seymour, left Rio de Janeiro and entered the Pacific, headed for Concepcion and Valparaiso, Chile, when she was wrecked on the Chilean coast at Molquilla Beach ... all the men were landed safely and stranded on this desolate shore until assistance could be brought south from Concepcion." Sabin, 19961. Abbey, 726. Palau. Hill, 1493.
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  • Keywords Challenger. Shipwreck. Nautical. Chile. Pacific. Pacific Voyages. Molguilla. South America. Sabin. CATx101
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THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST
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THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST

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1849. HART, Joseph C. THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST. Two volumes in one with original wrappers bound in. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848 (title page) issued in two parts in wrappers dated 1849, printed price 37 1/2 cents. 332 pp. + 28 pp. publisher's advertisements, some unopened. 8vo. Included notes on navigation, nautical vocabulary, and oddly, the Shakespeare authorship controversy. This wrapper edition likely constitutes a second issue. Bound in half blue gilt-ruled morocco with raised bands, spine ornaments, blue marbled paper covered boards. Overall a lovely copy. OCLC locates only one copy issued in wrappers; quite scarce thus.
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MARINE SALVAGE HEAVY HOISTING
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MARINE SALVAGE HEAVY HOISTING

by Hardy, George F. Consulting Engineer

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New York, New London Ct.: Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation. Very Good+. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean grey cloth with gilt titles on spine and front cover. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with numerous B/W photographs. Since 1860 Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation and its predecessor companies have rendered salvage service to all kinds of floating property. Also includes a boxed double-deck of playing cards with Merritt-Chapman logo. Merritt-Chapman has been associated with marine salvage and floating derrick operations. Nautical; B/W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Decouvertes dans la Mer du Sud. Nouvelles de M de la Perouse, Jusqu'en 1794. Traces de son...
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Decouvertes dans la Mer du Sud. Nouvelles de M de la Perouse, Jusqu'en 1794. Traces de son passage trouvees en diverses isles et terres de l"Ocean pacifique; grande Isle peuplee d'emigres francais

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Paris: Chez Everat A good copy of this scarce work in contemporary half leather binding. Undated but 1798. Imagines the continuation of La Perouse's voyage after Botany Bay, describing his death, and the discovery of an island peopled by French escapees from the Revolution. This copy has a red leather spine with gilt compartments and gilt titles. The boards and endpapers are marbled. The spine has a little wear at the bottom and the boards have wear to edges. Internally the endpapers are marbled. Contents: title page, text 397pp plus errata 2pp. The original page marker is present. The paper is very brown-toned to around p300 and more lightly toned with occasional light marking to the end of the work. Otherwise in good clean condition.
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A Ship of the Line
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A Ship of the Line

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A genuine and VERY RARE single volume first edition of the second book in Forester's famed Hornblower series published in April 1938, well before the bundled volume: Ship of the Line/Flying Colours.The front title page of the dust jacket has been cut and glued onto the inside (page 2) of the hardcover. Binding is tight, slightly slanted, with cream-coloured inside binding pages. Very clean, slightly tanned pages with light foxing to textblock exteriors. Two light pencil-marked annotations on pages 75 and 239. Unattached giftcard inserted dated Dec. 1938.
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Yankee in England
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Yankee in England

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THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST
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THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST

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1849. HART, Joseph C. THE ROMANCE OF YACHTING: VOYAGE THE FIRST. Two volumes in one with original wrappers bound in. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848 (title page) issued in two parts in wrappers dated 1849, printed price 37 1/2 cents. 332 pp. + 28 pp. publisher's advertisements, some unopened. 8vo. Included notes on navigation, nautical vocabulary, and oddly, the Shakespeare authorship controversy. This wrapper edition likely constitutes a second issue. Bound in half blue gilt-ruled morocco with raised bands, spine ornaments, blue marbled paper covered boards. Overall a lovely copy. OCLC locates only one copy issued in wrappers; quite scarce thus.
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MARINE SALVAGE HEAVY HOISTING
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MARINE SALVAGE HEAVY HOISTING

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New York, New London Ct.: Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation. Very Good+. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean grey cloth with gilt titles on spine and front cover. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with numerous B/W photographs. Since 1860 Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation and its predecessor companies have rendered salvage service to all kinds of floating property. Also includes a boxed double-deck of playing cards with Merritt-Chapman logo. Merritt-Chapman has been associated with marine salvage and floating derrick operations. Nautical; B/W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Decouvertes dans la Mer du Sud. Nouvelles de M de la Perouse, Jusqu'en 1794. Traces de son...
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Paris: Chez Everat A good copy of this scarce work in contemporary half leather binding. Undated but 1798. Imagines the continuation of La Perouse's voyage after Botany Bay, describing his death, and the discovery of an island peopled by French escapees from the Revolution. This copy has a red leather spine with gilt compartments and gilt titles. The boards and endpapers are marbled. The spine has a little wear at the bottom and the boards have wear to edges. Internally the endpapers are marbled. Contents: title page, text 397pp plus errata 2pp. The original page marker is present. The paper is very brown-toned to around p300 and more lightly toned with occasional light marking to the end of the work. Otherwise in good clean condition.
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Philosophical Experiments: Containing Useful, and Necessary Instructions for such as undertake...
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First edition. Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West End of St Paul's; and T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon between the Temple-Gates, in Fleet-Street. London. 1739. Octavo. Half title; imprim. Hans Sloane Pr. Reg. Soc. dated March 29, 1739; Title; xxx, (1) errata; 163; engraved plate; (6) index; (2) printer's catalogue. Recent half calf, marbled boards, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label, gilt lettering. Renewed endpapers. Light marginal spotting to title page. Smudge to p66 (a blank page). Faint signature James Walford to upper margin of dedication. A crisp, handsome and bright copy.
Stephen Hales (1677-1761) FRS, Royal Academy of Sciences. Dedicated to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
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Yankee in England
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Yankee in England

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, with the letter A on the copyright page; This has a good DJ that has chipping and wear along the top and bottom edges and a couple small tears.
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Adventures on Land and Sea with CD
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Adventures on Land and Sea with CD

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Solid binding, clean interiors free of any markings. Light shelwear to bottom corner. tiny crease on the edge of page 115. Includes a CD rom of photos. 169 pages. Nonfiction. Sailing. Mountaineering. 0.25" X 7" X 10" 0.7cm X 18cm X 25.5cm Author describes three different adventures he went on: trekking in Nepal on a path along Annapurna in 1981, sailing a small catamaran along the New England Coast in 1983, and as crew on a replicate of James Cook's square rigged sailing ship Endeavor from Bermuda to the West Indies in 1998. There are black and white photos illustrating the text and a CD containing additional bonus photos of the voyages.
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Pirates of the Southern Coast

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Lighthouse Publications, 2002. Oversize Paperback. FINE. As new- gift quality! 24 pages of factual information on Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, "Black Sam" Bellamy, "Calico Jack" Rackham, Charles Vane, Mary Read ann Anne Bonny illustrated with fine art and photos of artifacts on high quality, glossy paper. 0.9
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The Polynesian Triangle

The Polynesian Triangle

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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).
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S.S. ILE DE FRANCE -- the Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic
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S.S. ILE DE FRANCE -- "the Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic

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NY: French Line, 1949. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 20pp; illustrated throughout from photographs and full-color watercolor drawings by Richard Lindner. The text sets the scene as the Ship leaves New York harbor: "You are aboard the Ile de France--a completely rebuilt Ile de France." Described are: the Versailles Suite, the Chantilly Suite, the Cafe de Paris; First Class and Cabin Class dining and smoking rooms; theatre; reading room; gymnasium; tourist class salon, smoking room and bar. A 24-inch centerspread from a Lindner painting shows the Ile de France in full color. 12" x 8.25" Originally launched in 1927, the S.S. Ile de France was converted to a troopship in 1941. In 1947, the ship was returned to France, rebuilt, and launched on her second maiden voyage in 1949. This brochure celebrates the post-war, transatlantic Ile de France.
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Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with...
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Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor

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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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The Country Of The Pointed Firs

The Country Of The Pointed Firs

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Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."
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Pacific Ocean - Fiji Islands to Samoa Islands
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Interesting vintage nautical map of the Pacific Ocean, from Fiji Island in the east to Samoan Island in the west. The map also shows Tonga and a few other islands in the South Pacific.Printed in London by Admiralty and under the supervision of the British Royal Navy. Size: 104 x 71 cmCondition: Lines of folding, some wrinkles, in very good condition overall.
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