Search Results: Maritime History from The Owl at the Bridge

"The purpose of this book is to tell in outline the story of European geographical exploration, trade and settlement outside the bounds of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to define the factors which stimulated expansion and made it possible; and to describe briefly the consequences which followed from it." xv, 365 pages, 80 illustrations, 5 maps, index; 25 cm.; dust jacket desperately tattered, mostly present; book Very Good. Stock#ofc0584.

American Neptune Inc., Salem, Mass. [Anthoensen Press/Meriden Gravure], 1949. Periodical. Includes Bright Light on 'Flying Cloud' v. 'Andrew Jackson'; Bark 'Vernon'; Arab Dhows of Eastern Arabia; A Sea of Troubles. Voyage of 'Bonetta', 1718; Evolution of the Chesapeake Clipper-Schooner [&] Yachting in Chesapeake Bay, 1676-1783; Design of American Frigates of the Revolution and Joshua Humphreys; Last Days of Coasting on Union River Bay [&] Elm Bark Canoe in the Peabody Museum; Boston Merchant Fleet of 1753; Short History of the Los Angeles Steamship Co., 1920-30; Deposition of Nelson Tefft and Others of the Whale-ship 'Brooklyn', 1847; Schooner Building in Wisconsin, 1874. Issues 2 & 3, consecutively paged, plates, maps, photos, diagrams, 25.5 cm.; blue-printed grey paper wraps; minor wear; VG+. Single issue, $10. Stock#28824.

Mystic, CT, Munson Institute of American Maritime History, Marine Historical Association, 1969.. Soft Cover. 67 p. illus., map. 23 cm. Printed from typescript. The peak years were 1862-1878. Bibliography: p. 53-57. Stock# 44,047. Vg / soft cover.

New York, Dodd, Mead, c1977. Not all the tales are maritime: there is a chapter on Lizzie Borden at the end. Hard Cover. xii, 272 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illus., index, 21 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#40182.

N.Y., Knopf, 1954. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 359, iv p.24 cm.There are 16 pieces and no table of contents (the back of the dust jacket lists them) in four sections: Maritime,Biographical, Saints,Scholars, and Sinners; History and Historians. Stock# 32,270. Vg/ dj good+.

Two bookseller catalogues: Howland, 4-79, Full and By, 118 items; Kahn, Men and the Sea, 103 items, 3 illus.; both stapled in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0289.

"This dictionary contains listings for 3,074 marine artists working during the last four centuries. The majority [were] active in the nineteenth century... The term 'marine artist' is here understood to indicate an individual engaged in any form of painting, drawing, or sketching of vessels, sea scenes, and coastal and harbor scenes... our deliberate emphasis [was] on pierhead painters..." Hardcover; xix, 431 pages, a few illustrations; 23.5 cm. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stock#ofc0894/house.

OFFPRINT. Sent under Captain Ebenezer Corey to trade in South America and the Pacific, the Eliza struck on a reef in the Fijis; Corey continued his reports to Brown & Ives; this account is based on papers in the John Carter Brown Library. Reprinted from The American Neptune XXIII. 4, October 1963, pages 233-254, 2 plates; stapled without wraps; spine edge sunned; VG. Stock#0fc0171.

"Knowledge of continuous sea passages from ocean to ocean round the world... was the outcome of the century or so of European maritime questing... What were the motives which drove seamen out from fifteenth-century Europe upon a career of worldwide discovery?" xv, 302 pages, illustrations, index; oblong quarto, 26 cm. Bound by Tapley-Rutter in tan binder's cloth, color pictorial dust jacket torn, worn; Very Good. Stock#ofc0535.

NY, Charles Scribner's, 1967. Hard Cover. 190 pages. "The life of Sir Francis Drake, 1543-1597, spans the great age of maritime expansion in England. Within little more than fifty years, Engand developed naval forces that changed her from a middling island kingdom to a world sea power." Very Good; dust jacket good+. Stock#100575/h.

Dukes County Historical Society, Edgartown, Mass., 1976 & 1977. Contents of No. 1, Rev. Joseph Thaxter: A Vineyarder at the Battles of Concord & Bunker Hill by Thomas E. Norton; Liberty Pole Incident by Shirley W. Mayhew; Book Review: Henry Franklin Norton's Martha's Vineyard: The Story of its Towns; No. 2, Capt. Francis Cottle Smith and Mutiny in the Ship John and Edward; Eskimo Hunt for Bowhead Whales at Point Hope, Alaska, May 3, 1976 by William Graves; Jeremiah Pease's Diary continued; No. 3, Economic Impact of Martha's Vineyard Whalers on the Peruvian Port of Paita by James B. Richardson III & Elena B. Décima Zamecnik; Some Gay Head People of Long Ago; Jeremiah Pease's Diary continued; Old Island Trolley by Gene Baer; Mutinous but not Mutiny by Dorothy Cottle Poole; Jeremiah Pease's Diary continued. Periodical. Four numbers consecutively paged, 153 pages altogether, photos; 23.5 cm. Stapled in printed wraps; VG. Individual number $10. stock#44387.16.

[Down East Books, Camden, Maine, c1984]. 'Twenty-three Nantucket residents describe their firsthand encounters with paranormal phenomena... Nantucket's ghosts are as individualistic as today's flesh-and-blood island inhabitants.' Soft Cover. 119 pages, illus., 20 cm. Paper; VG+. Stock#32576x.

Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1960. 9th printing.. Hard Cover. xxi, 297 p., index, maps (some folding), photos; Title continues: "October 1942-June 1943. With illustrations." Includes the invasion of North Africa and subsequent operations, all before the Sicilian campaign. Stock# 101,900.2. dj worn, soiled, ex library with stamps, tape, else good+. American military history, maritime history, naval history.

257, [1] pages, text illustrations & plates (7 colored) showing ships & uniformed personnel; 26.5 cm. Bound in green mottled paper over boards, black leather spine loose, part gone, corners & edges rubbed, rear cover detached; much internal foxing & staining; a fair copy, as is. Stock#ofc0845.

Garden City, Doubleday [1956?].. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 495 p.; 22 cm. Two maritime novels of the War of 1812. Lively Lady first published, 1931, Captain Caution in 1934. Vg/no dj.. American historical fiction.

"Mr. Sherman is Librarian of the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island. His present familiarity with whaling stems from a long-time interest in the field. This article was adapted from a paper read at a meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston [Massachusetts], October 1958." Pamphlet, 8 pages stapled in blue paper covers; Very Good. Stock#ofc0453.

Providence, R.I., The John Carter Brown Library, 1979. "The compilation of the list was carried out by Danial Elliott." Lists over 1200 items organized by topic including Navigation, Piracy, Marine Architecture, and Law of the Sea. Most titles were published before 1800. Soft Cover. x, 335 pages; Indexes; 28 cm. Very Good; typescript in spiral binding. Stock#39106x (+house).

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis ['Reprinted 1980']. Hard Cover. xiii, 358 p., index, 51 illus., 11 maps (3 double-page from folding in the original edition); green cloth covers stamped in gold; no dj; fine. ”This book, and its companion, Greek and Roman Naval Warfare, was originally published in the late 1930's, when naval warfare still centered on big guns and the battle line, much as it had for centuries past.” Contents include The Navy of the Roman Empire; The Naval Wars with the Saracens; The First Crusade; The Organization of Ancient Navies; The Vikings; Medieval Wars of French and English; Italian Naval Wars; Wars of Cyprus and Campaign of Lepanto; The War of Elizabeth of England with Philip II of Spain and Stock# 34,845x. the Campaign of the Great Armada. Maritime history, shipbuilding, naval & military history.

Sections: Reference Works; Merchantmen and Warships; Captains and Crews; Maritime Science, Exploration and Expansion; Commerce and Shipping; Navies; Naval History by Chronological Periods; Special Topics (Auxiliary Services; Ports; Maritime Economics; Commodities; Passengers & Migration; Maritime & International Law; Privateering, Buccaneering, and Piracy; Marine Disasters; Safety at Sea and Salvage; Maritime Historical Journals; Major American Maritime Museums. "First edition published 1963." ix, 370 pages; paper; 25 cm. Ink owner name on flyleaf; Very Good. Stock#ofc0963 [i.e. 0693].

Brattleboro, Vt., Stephen Daye Press, 1937. The Fall River Line had just closed down when this history of it was published. After 90 years of carrying passengers and the day's production of the textile mills to New York City, the line was done in by rail competition. Hard Cover. 190 pages, plates, portraits, facsimiles; 21 cm. Spine faded; no dj; good. Another copy, the same; white pictorial dj soiled, spine cocked; VG. Stock#42014x.