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[Washington, D.C.] Thrift Shop, c1991]. Soft Cover. 232 p., illus. (some color); 28 cm. The theme of this issue is Maritime collecting. Includes Gwendolyn Kelso, "Silver Reflections of American Naval History"; " Piloting for Pleasure: The Origins of American Yachting"; "The American Ship Portrayed". Stock#40660x. Fine/ as new / paper.

[New Bedford, Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.)1964]. Hard Cover. 110 p., 25./5 cm. Part 1, Addendum to Starbuck's History of the American Whale Fishery "falls into 3 categories: missing names of captains, dates, and/or voyages/ In each instance, sufficient additional info is included to identify the voyage, Part 2. consists of captain's first names not found in Whaling Masters, Part 3 is an alphabetical index to Starbuck..." (p.[6]). Stock# 43,443. Vg /no dj.

London, Brockhampton/ Arms and Armour, 1998.. Hard Cover. 288 p., illus., 25 cm. "The first comprehensive reference work to detail in one volume-- with data, line drawings and photographs-- the 360-plus carriers designed or projected by the world's navies." New copy. Fine/fine. Stock #101, 424. Military, Maritime.

[Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 1978]. Soft Cover. 143 p., illus. (some color); 22 x 29 cm. Series: Alaska Geographic vol. 5 no. 4, 0361-1353. Cover title. "Dr. John Bockstock... provides a foundation around which to describe various facets of... whaling." Lacks the folding poster. Stock#44775. Good+, front damp rippled / softcover.

American Neptune, Inc., Salem, Mass. [Anthoensen Press / Meriden Gravure] 1953. Periodical. Includes Fawcett, Captain Richard Maples, Early Mariner & Adventurer in the East; Mouzon, 'Defence', a Vessel of the Navy of South Carolina; Holly, 'Sparrow-Hawk', a 17th-Century Vessel in Twentieth-Century America; Dolphin Striker; Spencer, Browning, & Rust, Nautical Opticians; Bibliography. Recent Writings on Maritime History; Eastern Sail Affinities, I & II; Maritime Manuscripts in the Baker Library; Tales of Banks Fishermen; 'Thar She Blows,' A Version by Llewellyn Howland; Eben Caldwell to his Cousin, William Titcomb (An account of the foundering of the ship 'Dorchester', December 1844); A Suit against Jonathan Woodman of Newbury, 1694; First Iron Steamer; Colonial Sloop 'Mediator'; 'Defence' & 'Hinchinbrook'; Voyage of 'Jenny' of Bristol; Square Sails & Fore-and-Aft Sails; 'Emeline' & 'City of Haverhill'; George Crowninshield's Yacht 'Cleopatra's Barge'; Commodore George DeKay & Voyage of 'Macedonian'… Read More

American Neptune, Inc., Salem, Mass. [Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland], 1944. Contents include (July) 'The Iron Steamer'; Admiral Rodney Warns of Invasion, 1776-1777; Ship 'Pacific Queen'; Ship 'Lord Dartmouth': American-built Merchantman of Revolutionary Days; U. S. Frigate 'Constitution' in Borneo, 1845; Great South Bay Scooters; (October) Trinity House Ship Models; Notes on Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks; United States Mail Steamer 'George Law'; Loss of the 'Malleville'. Periodical. Numbers Three & Four only: 181-350, viii pages, plates (some folding), diagrams, 25.5 cm. Notes; Documents; Queries; Book Reviews; News; a few advertisements; index & preliminary leaves to Vol. V. Grey printed wraps, as issued; VG. Stock#32551.

American Neptune Inc., Salem, Mass. [Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland], 1946. 'A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History.' Contents include (January) An American Commander in the Argentine Navy; The 'Europa's' Misfortunes; The Dismal Swamp Canal Part III; Wartime Canoe Building in the Marshall Islands; Double Gaff Rigs; (April) Bonaparte Toscan and the Cuban Pirates; Articles of Agreement for the Galley 'Conqueror', 1779; While I'm At the Wheel [poem]; Transpacific Voyages of 'Pamir'; Philip Freneau, Our Sailor Poet; Reminiscences of a Voyage in the Bark 'William H. Besse' Including the Java Earthquake of 1883; West India Hurricanes; (July) Fredrik Henrik af Chapman; A New Hampshireman Transports Spanish Troops to Oran, 1732; Early Great Lakes Steamboats, 1816 to 1830; 'Oregon' and 'Peacemaker': 12 inch Wrought Iron Guns; The Source of Whittier's 'The Dead Ship of Harpswell'; (October) The Spanish Treasure Fleet of 1551; Fulton's Steam Frigate; 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (An Old Tar's… Read More

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.

American Neptune, Salem, Mass. [Anthoensen Press / Meriden Gravure], 1948. Periodical. Includes obituary of Lincoln Colcord; Henry Eckford's 'United States' of 1831; Designs of our First Frigates; Struggle for the Cape Henry Lighthouse, 1721-91; Early Great Lakes Steamboats-- Battle of Windmill & Afterward, 1838-42 [&] Warships & Iron Hulls; Chanteying Aboard American Ships; Early Description of Birch-Bark Canoes; Emigrant Ship to Copra Hulk. The Iron Bark 'Bougainville'; Exodus 1947, an Interim Report on the Career of Steamship 'President Warfield'; Folklore and Anthropological Literature as a Source for Maritime Historians; Speed, Size, and Model; Contract for Building a Bark, 1880; Life Preserving Dress; Maine West India Trade; Early History of Midway Islands; Ships that Tested Blockade of Carolina Ports; 'Elegant' Steamboat 'Commonwealth'; Naval Action on Lake Champlain, 1776; Captain Philo McGiffin at Battle of Yalu; American Four-Mast Bark 'Star of Poland', ex-'Acme'; Canoe from the Penobscot… Read More

Salem, Mass., American Neptune Inc. [Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland], 1941. 'A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History.' Contents include (January) Columbus and Polaris; American Naval Policy 1775-1776; Inspection Comments on American Ships and Barks; Auxiliary Steamships and R.B. Forbes; A Boy's First Day at Sea in the Bark 'Belle of Oregon' 1886; Historic American Merchant Marine Survey; (April) Tidal Wave at Huanillos, Chile, in 1877; First Cruise of the Privateer 'Harpy'; 'Great Eastern' in Long Island Sound; (July) Clifford Day Mallory, 1881-1941; Ocean Navigation of Columbus on his First Voyage; C.S.S.'Stonewall'; Ship of Many Names and Many Flags; Arizona Fleet; Registers, Enrollments and Licenses in the National Archives; (October) 'Star of Scotland', ex-'Kenilworth'; Routine Trade of Salem under the Confederation Congress, May 1783-October 1789; Present-Day Craft and Rigs of the Mediterranean; First Use of Sail by the Indians of the Northwest Coast; Notes; Documents; Queries; Book… Read More

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.

American Neptune, Salem, Mass. [Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland], 1947. 'A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History.' Contents include (January) The Canton Packet 'Cohota'; Commodore Perry's Landing in Japan, 1853; The Insular Campaign of 1759: Guadeloupe; A Cyclone Which Seemed To Have No Center; The Meeting of the Ships 'Dauntless' and 'Thomas Dana' off Cape Horn; Early Great Lakes Steamboats. Westward Ho! and Flush Times, 1831-1837; (April) Letters of Captain Sir John Jervis to Sir Henry Clinton, 1774-1782; The Navy in Korea, 1871; Paddle-Wheel Inboard. Some of the History of Ocklawaha River Steamboating and of the Hart Line; A Naval Ballad of the War of 1812, from the Toscan Papers in the New Hampshire Historical Society; (July) Henry Eckford (1775-1832), an American Shipbuilder; The Old Steam Shed; New Hampshire's Part in the Penobscot Expedition; Paddle-Wheel Inboard Part Two; (October) The Figure-head of the United States Frigate 'Constellation'; Two Thousand Years Under Sea: The Story of… Read More

American Neptune Inc., Salem, Mass. [Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland], 1945. 'A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History.' Contents include (January) United States Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross'; Early Great Lakes Steamboats. The 'Walk-in-the-Water'; Ship 'Martha''s Shopping Trip in the Mediterranean in 1801; Battle of Porto Praya, 1781; (April) Nathaniel Bowditch; 'Letters Taken in Prizes' 1778-1780; A Light-vessel of 1823 Built by Henry Eckford; Amphibious Operations in the Gulf of California, 1847-1848; Five-Masted Schooners; Square Sails and Raffees; (July) 'The Fleet'; Voyage of the Brig 'Nabob' from Boston to Batavia, Java, in 1833; Dismal Swamp Canal; Register Tonnage and Its Measurement; Mutton Spankers and Ringtail Topsails; (October) 'Mount Vernon''s Voyage from Batavia to Nagasaki in 1807; Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum of the East India Marine Society; Notes on Some New England Three-Masters; Dismal Swamp Canal Part II; Register Tonnage and its Measurement Part II; Index to… Read More

American Neptune Inc., Salem, Mass., 1950 [Anthoensen Press/Meriden Gravure]. Periodical. Includes First Permanent English Settlers off Jamestown; Iron Sea Elephants; Massachusetts Deserters who went to Sea during the American Revolution; Earliest American Voyages to Australia; Elizabeth Islands Jingle; Journal of Ship 'Empress of China', Parts 1-3; Bark 'Star of India'; A Hundred Years of the Pacific Mail; Boston Smuggling; Sheet-Iron Steamboat 'Codorus'; Maine Boy at Sea in the Eighties; Regatta at New Bedford, Mass., 8 August 1856; Battle of Priest's Cove; Merrimac River Gundalow & Gundalowmen; Some Missionary Ships in the Pacific; Continental Brigantine 'General Gates'; Whale Ship 'Benjamin Tucker' of New Bedford; Index to Volumes VI-X including index of ships with compound names by last name. 345 p., plates, maps, diagrams, 25.5 cm.; grey wrappers printed in blue; minor wear; VG+. Single issue, $10. Stock#28820.

American Neptune, Salem, Mass., 1959 [Anthoensen / Meriden]. Periodical. Includes Mark Tiddeman's Chart of New York Harbour; Second 'Chesapeake' Affair; American Clipper Ship Prints by the Curriers; Columbus Landed on Watlings Island; Misadventures of a Maine Slaver; Schooner 'William Jewell', 1853-1947; Photographs [clipper ships, 1855- 1910]; First Word from 'Kearsarge'; Footnote to the Loss of 'Arctic'; Four American Cross-Staves; New England Seafaring Family; American Navy at Work on the Brazil Station, 1827-60; You Can't Beat the 'Banca'; Notes on First Fleet Engagement in Civil War; Origins of Fore-and-Aft Rigs, II; Index to Volume XIX. 149, 237-317 p., plates, maps, diagrams, 25.5 cm.; blue-printed grey wrappers; minor wear; VG+. Single issue $10. Stock#28894.

American Neptune, Inc., Salem, Mass. [Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland], 1944. Periodical. 82 p., illus.; 25.5 cm. Articles include: The Adventures of the Ketch John by James Duncan Phillips; Saving the Ship Crystal Palace, edited by Joanna C. Colcord; The Passing of the Five-Masters by Robert H. I. Goddard, Jr. Stock#47853. Good+, wrappers slightly frayed.

National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. [c1973]. Hard Cover. 207 p., index, color photographs throughout; 26 cm. New England; Long Island Sound; Manhattan to the Delaware; the Chesapeake; Carolina capes & islands; Florida. Color pictorial dj; minor wear; VG. 39408 NS.

Boston: Hanover Studios, c1977. First Edition. Cover title: America's Cup. The Twenty-three Challenges. The illustrations are line drawings by Alvord showing the boats, their sails, and the course for each race. Soft Cover. 55 pages, illus.; 23 cm. Vg / soft cover. Stock#44524.

Edited by William C. Haskins of the Canal Record. Contents include Discovery & Settlement; Raids of Buccaneers; Proposed Canal Routes; Panama RR; French Failure; Making the Isthmus Healthful; Constructing the Lock Type Canal; Future Canal Traffic; Panama-Pacific International Exposition; Panama-California Exposition; Pronouncing Gazetteer of Geographical Names Most Frequently Heard in Canal Zone & Panama. 384 pages, many black & white photographs of the ongoing construction plus eight four-color plates & a color folding map; 28 cm. Bound in brown pictorial covers printed in black, blue & white; lightly soiled & shaken, spine ends frayed; pretty good shape for its age & use. Stock#20647/house.

First Edition. Hardcover; x pages, 1 leaf, 216 pages, illustrations, endpaper map; 22 cm. "Edited by Leslie Dalrymple Stair, illustrated by Paul Quinn." Account of a 16-month whaling voyage to Hudson Bay when the author was 23 years old. Fair; spots on covers / no dj. Stock#102286/h.