The Non-Cartographical Maritime Works Published By Mount And Page. A Preliminary Hand-List; Occasional Papers Number 1
London: Bibliographical Society, 1985. First edition. Paperback. 54 pages. 29 x 21 cm. More
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The Papers of Francis Gregory Dallas United States Navy Correspondence And Journal 1837-1854
New York: Navy Historical Society, 1917. Hardcover. Four illustrations. Index. A naval officer who served in the navy of the German Confederation before beingreinstated in the US Navy (he was dismissed from the US Navy for having engaged in a duel). Publications of the Naval History Society, Volume VIII. Limited..... More
An Authentic Narrative Of The Proceedings Of His Majesty's Squadron Under The Command Of Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, From Its Sailing From Gibraltar To The Conclusion Of The Glorious Battle Of The Nile; Drawn Up From The Minutes Of An Officer Of Rank In The Squadron
London: Printed For T. Cadell, Jun, and W. Davies, 1798. Second edition. Hardcover. 56 pages. 21 x 13 cm. With folding copper-engraved plan of the Battle of the Nile, also called the Battle of Abu Quir, one of Nelson's greatest victories, restoring the British presence in the Mediterranean and dooming..... More
Men from Under the Sky The Arrival of Westerners In Fiji
Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 327 pages. More
Catalogue Of The Articles And Objects Exhibited By The U.S. Navy Department In The United States Government Building, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. 94 pages. 32 x 25 cm. Catalogue of the United States Navy Department with English, French, and German in parallel columns. A myriad of equipment details: Bureau of Ordinance, Navigation, Equipment, Yards and Docks, Provisions and Clothing, Construction and Repair. Ex-library, spine lacking..... More
Old Ship Prints
London: Spring Books, 1967. Hardcover. 182 pp. 4to, color and black and whiteplates. Index. First published 1927. This is the second impression. More
Greenwich Hospital, A Series Of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of The Life Of A Man-Of-War's Man. By An Old Sailor (Matthew Henry Barker)
London: James Robbins, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 4to, 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Twelve hand-colored plates, tissue guards, designed and engraved by Cruikshank -- the plate facing p.61 with partially augmented by an amateur hand. With sixteen woodcuts in the text. ABBEY SCENERY 226. COHN 53. This, the..... More
Greenwich Hospital, A Series Of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of The Life Of A Man-Of-War's Man. By An Old Sailor (Matthew Henry Barker)
London: James Robbins, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Twelve hand-colored plates with additional 12 uncolored plates designed and engraved by Cruikshank, and sixteen woodcuts in the text. One page ALS dated January 6th 1846 signed (Geo Cruikshank) bound in after the free front endpaper..... More
The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe; Embellished With Engravings From Designs By Thomas Stothard, Esq .R.A.
London: T. Cadell And W. Davies, 1820. Second Stothard edition. leather_bound. 389, 456 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Title vignettes and 20 engraved plates after Thomas Stothard engraved by Charles Heath. GORDON N. RAY 19. "Stothard took more pains with these two substantial volumes than he did with his routine..... More
Histoire Des Naufrages Pirateries, Abordages, Famines, Hivernages, Incendies, Delaissements, Taite De Negres, Revoltes, Combats, Desastres Et Aventures Sur Les Mers Et Les Oceans Du Globe
Paris: Fonteney Et Peltier, ca 1860. First edition. Hardcover. 396 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Half title, twelve lithographs by Charles Gaildrau, ten are tinted. History of shipwrecks from the 16th century onward. Intermittent, scattered text browning, plates generally clean, a few with marginal toning. Text in French. Corners worn..... More
A Voyage To Senegal; or, Historical, Philosophical, and Political Memoirs, Relative To The Discoveries, Establishments, and Commerce of Europeans In The Atlantic Ocean, From Cape Blanco to the River of Sierra Leone. To Which Is Added An Account Of A Journey From Isle St. Louis To Galam
London: Richard Phillips, 1806. First English edition. Hardcover. 181 pages, 3 pp. Index. Small 4to, 21 1/2 x 13 cm. Folding map and seven aquatint plates, many with two images per plate. Translated from the French. 18th century account of European activity in West Africa. The English captured Isle St..... More
A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy
Riverside Press: Privately Printed, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 247 pp. 4to, mostly unopened. Limited edition copy 285 of 350. Extra paper spine label tipped-in at inside back cover. Index. Classic work on the subject. GEPHART 261. More
Admiral Togo: A Memoir
Tokyo: Togo Gensui Publishing Society, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 347 pages. 30.2 x 23 cm. Illustrated with 22 color plates with tissue guards and black and white illustrations. A tribute in the laudatory style of contemporary Japanese imperial culture; the encomiums for Togo who died in 1934 never cease. His..... More
A Complete Catalogue Of The Etchings And Dry-Points Of Arthur Briscoe
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1930. Briscoe, Arthur Trevor. First edition. Hardcover. 30 page in text. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 76 of 250 with an original signed etching by Arthur Briscoe. A marine painter and etcher who studied at the Slade Art School, he was elected an..... More
P & O Pencillings
London: Day & Son, (1891). Lloyd, William Whitelock. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Oblong folio. 27 x 37.5 cm. One map, chromolithographed frontispiece, title page, 22 chromolithograph plates (without hand-coloring) and accompanying black and white sketches by Lloyd. Published for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company illustrating life aboard a...... More
P & O Pencillings
London: Day & Son, (1891). Lloyd, William Whitelock. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Oblong folio. 30 x 40.5 cm. Edition de Luxe. copy 284 of 300 signed by Lloyd. One map, chromolithograph frontispiece, title page, 22 chromolithograph plates (with hand-coloring) and accompanying black and white sketches by Lloyd. Published for the..... More
Jacob Faithful
London: Saunders & Otley, 1837. R.W. Buss. Illustrated Edition. leather_bound. 304, 304, 308 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Another in the series of maritime fiction enormously popular in its day, amongst the first sea novels, by a distinguished naval hero based on his real life experiences. This hand-colored edition followed..... More
Peter Simple
London: Saunders & Otley, 1837. R.W. Buss. Illustrated Edition. leather_bound. 312, 324, 316 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Another in the series of maritime fiction enormously popular in its day, amongst the first sea novels, by a distinguished naval hero based on his real life experiences. This hand-colored edition followed..... More
Billy Budd * Benito Cereno
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Shore, Robert. Hardcover. 196 pages. 8vo, illustrated with casein paintings by Robert Shore. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Limited edition, copy 171 of 1500, signed by Shore. With LEC Monthly Letter laid-in. NEWMAN & WICHE 367. More
The United States Navy 1776 to 1815; Depicted in an Exhibition of Prints of American Naval Engagements and American Naval Commanders held at the Grolier Club November 19, 1942 to January 17, 1943
New York: Grolier Club, 1942. First edition. Boards. 158 pages. 4to, 28 x 20 cm. Fifteen plates and 295 entries. Limited edition, one of 700 copies. Index. More
New York State Maritime Museum
New York: N.Y.S. UrbanDevelopment Corpor, 1973. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 117 pages. 23 x 30 cm. Voluminously illustrated: photographs, plans, drawings to scale. Plans and details of the Museum at the south street seaport and renovation of schermerhorn row. More
River Road to China The Mekong River Expedition 1866-1873
New York: Liveright, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 249 pages. Illustrated. Sources. Index. More
High Street
London: Country Life Press, 1938. Ravilious, Eric. First edition. Boards. 102 pages. 23.3 x 15.3 cm. Wood engraved title vignette and twenty four color lithographed illustrations by Ravilious of English shop fronts most of them in London -- an infinite variety from an undertaker to a baker to an oyster..... More
The Hansom Cab And The Pigeons Being Random Reflections Upon The Silver Jubilee Of King George V by L.A.G. Strong
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. Ravilious, Eric. First edition. Hardcover. 43 (3) pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 114 0f 212 in Perpetua type on hand made paper signed by Strong. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. illustrated by Ravilious with a full page..... More
Letter-Books and Order-Book of George Lord Rodney
New York: New York Historical Society, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Dorothy C. Barck. Index. An important primary source for naval operations during the Revolutionary War. Vol. I:Letter-Books July 6, 1780- Feb. 4, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781 - Sept. 21, 1782. Vol. II: Order-Book July, 1781;..... More