Maritime

England: Hutchinson, 1967. Book. Very good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Price clipped jacket is worn to corners. Small losses to spine tips, chip to corner of back panel (1 cm triangle), short tear with associated creases to front panel. Book has very slight insect scarring to the compressed page edges and a few pages with creased corners (appear deliberate), small green dot on the back paste down and a slight bump to the top of the spine. Please view the images for clarity. Still a nice copy of a scarce title. Will ship insured.

L'Association Technique Maritime, Paris, France, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. There is a personalized, handwritten letter pasted onto the front endpapers from the Naval Architect/Secretary of the Association to the Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Westminster. It is dated Dec 9, 1896, and is in thanks from the Association for having accepted a proposal between the two societies. It is on Association letterhead. This letter is in English. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 95 pp. Text is in French. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Several chips out of the spine. Moderate shelfwear to the cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Ships & the Sea; Non-English Language::French; French Language; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001265. .

[Glasgow, Scotland]: Manuscript on paper, 1894. Covers with obvious use and stains. Folio. 77 pp. written in ink in a fine cursive hand, each section underlined in red, in a ledger notebook of 141 numbered pages, with detailed specifications for all aspects of shipbuilding, from construction and trigging to engines and cabins, etc. In a homemade binding of thick canvas surrounding the original ledger, the canvas stretched across the boards with interlocking twine stitching. Front cover with the title in MS on the canvas, front pastedown and final blank bearing calligraphic inscriptions of the name of the first owner: "Captain M.J. Daly" Manuscript record of the detailed specifications for the construction of an iron ship (length: 247 ft., gross tonnage: 1, 607) to be delivered to Port Glasgow "on or before Oct. 20, 1891". Daly had considerable experience on the high seas as captain of the 1,727 tonne "W H Lincoln" (built in 1892 and registered to Messrs Thayer and Lincoln). On January 4, 1892, the… Read More

Harrisburg, PA: Printer, Boas & Coplan. Very Good+. 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes in one. Message from the Governor and Report of the Canal Commissioners 1839. 146pp. Annual Report of the Canal Commissioners . 1840. 249pp. Canal Commissioners Transmitted to the Governor.1841 149pp. James Wallace, Printer. Report of the Canal Commissioners.1842. 87pp. Rebound in clean brown buckram cloth with gilt title on spine. Twenty-five fold-out reports, tables and charts. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact . Statements, Estimates, Tonnage Reports, Name of Routes and Canal Tolls. Railroads. An amazing amount of facts and details Re: canals and railroads , Philadelphia Railway, Franklin Lines, Allegheny Railroad, Gettysburg Railway and Columbia Railroad. Pennsylvania; Fold out Reports; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 631 pages .

Albany, N. Y.: Argus Company. Very Good. 1873. First Edition. Soft Covers. Original clean blue paper covers with black titles on front cover. Interior of booklet is tight, clean & intact. Steam on the New York Canals ; Tables; 8vo; 164 pages .

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C., 1911; Large 26" x 32" map showing, on the landward side, from Malaga Cove in the west to Naples in the east, with points in between such as Rocky Point, Point Vicente, Portuguese Bend, San Pedro, Point Fermin, Smith’s Island, Wilmington, Bixby Slough, Long Beach, etc. On the seaward side shows depths in fathoms as far out as 8 nautical miles, with notations as to water colors, buoy locations, lights, etc. Published November, 1911, compiled from the 1870 to 1910 surveys. Stamped in the blank bottom margin, "Lights, Beacons, and Buoys Corrected For Information Received To July 17, 1912." Scale: 1:40,000. Printed on heavy paper. Rolled, not folded. Very Good condition, with no chips or tears. A few scattered transparent stains. A scarce early map of Los Angeles Harbor.

Paris: Chez De Hansy le jeune, 1774 A very good copy in newer full morocco binding with fold out map by Robert de Vaugondy. M. de Freville was a teacher, who wrote a variety of works, including for children. This book is notable in that it gives one of the first accounts in French of Cook's 1st voyage in the Endeavour, 1768-71. The bindings have raised bands and gilt titles and dates to spines. They are in near fine condition. The endpapers are marbled in a near match for the original marbling on the page edges. New blanks have been inserted at front and rear. Vol I: half title (giving the alternative 'Hydrographie...as the title); title page with 2 ink signatures across the lower half (the ink is visible to verso); Preface v-xlviii; fold out map; text with decorative headpiece and tailpieces pp 1-518; Index 519-522; errata. Vol I is in very good clean condition with the occasional light mark. There is some worming to the top margin - mainly affecting pp 157-208; and less so pp 217-228. At… Read More

Shanghai: The Chinese-American Publishing Company, 1947, 1948, 1941. Hardcover . Used - very good. Volumes I and II in green buckram. “Notes” volume is green cloth over hello papered boards. Inscribed by Col. James W. Mosteller, Jr. to Lt. Commander W.A. Mosteller. Volume I Near Fine. Volume II Very Good with upper outside corner of front board creased with corresponding light split to front pastedown. “Notes” volume with moderate scuffing to covers including 5” thin scrape across front board affecting only one letter. All three volumes with clean text and in sturdy bindings. Very well-preserved with gilt lettering on the Junks volumes almost bright as new.

1637. Prima edizione del 1637 di questo trattato di diritto marittimo dello storiografo, filologo e pensatore politico danese Joannes Isaac Pontanus (1571-1639), discepolo dell'astronomo Thyco Brahe. Pontano si trasferì prima in Francia poi in Olanda dove percepì il clima politica culturale che portò all'elaborazione delle teorie di diritto internazionale espresse in quest'opera, una vivace confutazione delle teorie sul mare chiuso di John Selden. In appendice il testo dedicato alla navigazione "De Ophyra" di Gaspar Barreiros (m. 1574) e "Problemata nautica" di Bartholomaus Keckermann (1573-1609). Alcune incisioni all'interno. Timbro al verso del frontespizio di biblioteca tedesca privata "Bibliothek Mecklenburgh Ritter Landschaft". In ottime condizioni e completo. Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni.… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, with the letter A on the copyright page; This has a good DJ that has chipping and wear along the top and bottom edges and a couple small tears.

(Copenhagen, DMI, 1893-1930). Small folio. The issues 1893-1915 are all bound with all the original printed wrappers (stating that they are off-prints) for every issue (except for the front wrapper for the first issue) in four near contemporary blue half cloth bindings with gilt titles and years to spine. The issues 1916-1930 are all present in the original printed wrappers and housed in three custom-made slipcases identical to the four preceding volumes. Ste back wrapper of the 1924-issue is loose. Otherwise the set is generally in excellent condition, with stamps from the Danish Meteorological Institute, in the holdings of which it has been until the present day. With numerous charts and maps throughout. Scarce run of the important first Arctic Sea Ice Charts from the Danish Meteorological Institute, all in off-prints from the Meteorological Year Books of Danish Meteorological Institute, constituting a continuous run, from its very beginning in 1893, of the first 38 years. These earliest Arctic… Read More

Washington, D.C.: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1920. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 304 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in original blue cloth with a front cover design of a three masted ship embossed in gilt. The binding is worn and shows heavy white spotting to the cloth. The inner hinges are secure, but the frontis piece is detached and chipped about the edges. Text is toned. INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf, "Mrs. Elizabeth A. Weeks / Presented by / Mr. James Sprunt / Wilmington, N.C. / Jan. 1922." There are some notations on the front pastedown. Quite scarce.

Paris, J. F. Ostervald, Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'Aîné, 1823 (1823-1825).
Folio [494 x 310 mm], 1 l., (54) ll. of text, 40 plates on large Indian paper, each one mounted with printed title, (1) l. of table.
Half-roan, rebacked, spine with raised bands and gilt fleurons. Contemporary binding.
First issue of the most sumptuous work published about the coasts and ports of Normandy during the reign of Charles X.
It was published in several parts. The first three were published under the title "Voyage pittoresque dans les ports et sur les côtes de France."
It was an atypical editorial adventure because two of the artists approached for the drawing of these exceptional plates were English: Bonington
andCopley Fielding, as well as many engravers such as Thales and Théodore Fielding, who worked in Paris, "at this remarkable time for English watercolour art".
Abbey, Travel, 92.
The magnificent iconography comprises 40 superb aquatints finely watercolored at the time, which represent various views of the… Read More

Gene Duncan Books, 1991. VG. Minor edge wear to cover (especially lower edge -- may have originated in manufacture); upper spine slightly bumped; spine has crease down center; one small mark on cover. Interior pristine. A beautiful bright copy! Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

On Incidents of a cruise in the US Frigate Congress to California.PICTURES REFLECT CONDITION