Nautical from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). A very good copy… Read more about this item

[Fairhaven, CA]: [Rolph's Shipyard], 1918. Ephemera. Very good. A pair of photographs of wooden-hulled ships, probably barkentines, under construction at Rolph's Shipyard in Fairhaven, on the Samoa penninsula across Humboldt Bay from Eureka, California. The shipyard at Fairhaven was founded by Hans-Ditlev Bendixsen, a Danish shipbuilder, in 1869. He built about a hundred large vessels there… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The seventeenth installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Pages slightly tanned. Signed by O'Brian on the title page.

San Francisco: Watkins' Pacific Coast, 1867. Ephemera. Very good. A stereograph view of the Oregon Steam Navigation pier at The Dalles, a lumber and passenger port about 80 miles east of Portland. Watkins copyrighted this view in 1867. This stereo card is seen on orange (this) and yellow mounts. The yellow mount examples include the date… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The second Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel, set in part on land. Aubrey loses his fortune and the two friends hide out in France, only to find themselves behind enemy line swhen war breaks out. O'Brian's series of meticulously detailed nautical novels set during the early 19th century… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The tenth Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel, set during the War of 1812. O'Brian's series of meticulously detailed nautical novels set during the early 19th century set a high bar for historical fiction. This novel provides the plot to the film Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe. … Read more about this item

New York: Henry Spear, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Two textbooks on sailing by American midshipmen, printed and bound together, as issued. The topics covered by Murphy are spars and rigging, nautical manoeuvers (called "evolutions"), and stowage. Jeffers' work on navigation is separately paginated with a title page that reads in full: Navigation: A Concise Practical… Read more about this item

Seattle, WA: (the author), 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A scarce navigation textbook written by a Seattle ship captain. Smith pursued a variety of business ventures in the early 20th century, including running a navigation school for which he wrote this book. It went through several editions with slightly different content. The first two editions are not… Read more about this item

Arcata, CA: Ericson Bro's, 1896. Photograph. Good. Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded,… Read more about this item