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.
Maritime
The Papers of Francis Gregory Dallas United States Navy Correspondence And Journal 1837-1854
NY: 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 edition...
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...
Men from Under the Sky The Arrival of Westerners In Fiji
Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 327 pp.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Sea Roads to the Indies An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the PortugueseNavigators, Together with the Life and, etc
NY: Macmillan, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 296 pp.
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.
Omoo
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Stone, Reynolds. Hardcover. 296 pages. 4to, illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Limited edition, copy 171 of 1500, signed by Stone. NEWMAN & WICHE 320.
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...
Westward Ho!
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Wilson, Edward E. Hardcover. 602 pages. 27 x 18 cm, Illustrated with color and black and white drawings by Edward A. Wilson. Limited edition, copy 959 of 1500. Signed by E. A. Wilson. Illustrations printed in gravure with the colors applied by hand. NEWMAN &...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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
NY: 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.
New York State Maritime Museum
NY: N.Y.S. UrbanDevelopment Corpor, 1973. First edition. Paperback. 117 pp.
River Road to China The Mekong River Expedition 1866-1873
NY: Liveright, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 249 pages. Illustrated. Sources. Index.
John Philpot's Roll Of The Constables of Dover Castel and Lord Wardens of the CinquePorts 1627
London: G. Bell, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 31 pp.
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...