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0618218815.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19532003280013Salem Mass. : Peabody Museum of Salem and Essex Institute 1953. Hardcover. Good. Nautical Reference and History 138 issues bound in 130 volumes. Nearly complete run of the journal from 1953-1982 also includes vol. IX issue 4 1949 and 20 later issues from 1984 - 1993. Volumes XIII - XLIII lacking 3 issues; Lacking volume XXXV no. 1; XLI no. 3; and XLII no. 2. Four years bound in navy cloth 1953 1954 1955 1956. All other volumes in publisher's wraps. 28 cm. Some damp wrinkling waviness to a few of the issues. <br> About the Journal: "From 1941 to 2002 The American Neptune was America's premier journal of maritime history and arts. The journal's articles written with clarity and scholarly substance are of interest to all who enjoy accounts of ships the seas and those who've sailed them - for mercantile gain their nation's interest or the love of voyaging and exploration. They cover a wide range of subjects art and artifacts people events geographical areas American and international and time periods prehistory through modern day and were written for scholars professionals and enthusiasts. The journal founded by a group that included Samuel Eliot Morison and Walter Muir Whitehill was issued as a quarterly Winter Spring Summer Fall." - Phillips Collection Peabody Essex Museum. <br> Most of the volumes are from the library of Thomas A. Stevens. Mr. Stevens was a writer and historian and an authority on Connecticut River commerce and transportation. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Salem, Mass. : Peabody Museum of Salem and Essex Institute hardcover
3730876<p>New York: Willis McDonald & Co. Printers 1875. 5 6–121pp. 5¾ x 4 inches. Printed wrappers. Front wrap stained and small edge-chips; spine expertly replaced with tissue; good with very good text block.</p> <p>Proper title: Neptune Club’s “Log.†Ninth Annual Cruise to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard with Contributions from Members and Friends. </p> <p>All “logs†of the Neptune Club are rare we locate a scattered handful with this year being unrecorded in any institutional holdings and with significantly more content when compared to logs from previous years.</p> <p>The Neptune Club was comprised of wealthy Connecticut citizens who traveled each summer during the 1860s to 1890s to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Their “log book†was written after each cruise documenting “their adventures mostly consisting of touring fishing and fine dining at fancy beachside resorts up the coast from Norwalk to Nantucket. Cottage City was a primary destination where the club would stay a week or more each season.†Participants for this year’s cruise hailed from Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Club’s Commodore Charles H. Tompkins earned his wealth in the wholesale drug trade business. Baer Martha’s Vineyard Tales… </p> unknown
1846365003Paris: Bachelier Imprimeur-Libraire . Quai des Augustins 1846. First edition with half-title. pp. i-ii 1-3 4-254. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards black spine label. Ownership signature of Alexander Evans on title page. Rubbed. Very good. First edition with half-title. pp. i-ii 1-3 4-254. 1 vols. 8vo. "I show that that one can only account for the movements of Uranus by introducing the perturbing action of a new planet" p. 5.<br /> French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier 1811-77 successfully predicted the location of an eighth solar planet now called Neptune. The seventh planet Uranus had been discovered telescopically in 1781 by William Herschel. Le Verrier demonstrated that the perturbations of the orbit of Uranus could be explained by the existence of a further celestial body and performed the mathematical calculations. The existence of the planet was confirmed by observation in September 1846 I.G. Galle writing to Le Verrier from Berlin "The planet whose position you communicated really exsts" p. 248. This book gathers four memoranda of "partial publications" read at the Academie des Sciences between November 1845 and October 1846 with a fifth part dated 5 October 1846. He notes that "this success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observations of the new planet one will be able to use it in turn for the discovery of the planet after it in terms of distance from the Sun. And so on; sadly one will come upon bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance from the Sun but whose orbits will over centuries be charted with great exactness through the theory of secular inequalities" p. 254.<br /> <br /> "undeniably one of the major scientific events of the nineteenth century" Lequeux p. 22. <br /> <br /> Uncommon and with nice contemporary American provenance the original owner likely being Alexander Evans 1818-1888 engineer and attorney member of Congress from Maryland 1847-53 and an amateur astronomer who travelled to Illinois to observe the total eclipse in 1869. OCLC reports a dozen locations over several records most in France. For Le Verrier see James Lequeux Le Verrier-Magnificent and Detestable Astronomer Springer 2013 Bachelier, Imprimeur-Libraire ... Quai des Augustins unknown
169316116No place no date1693. Very large engraved seechart measuring 60 x 865 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the Northern part of England from Lancaster to Banf of Ireland from Blackrock to Carlingford and all the Islands to the north: Shetland Orkney Faroe etc. etc. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later impression but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:9. </em> unknown
169316120Large engraved seechart measuring 46 x 89 cm. in original outline colouring. The chart showing the South-east coast of England from Sandwich to Clay. With inset view of The Thames between London and Greane Island. A fine impression on good thick paper with watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. This chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later issue but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:8. </em> unknown
169316114No date no place 1693. Very large engraved seechart measuring 605 x 855 cm. in original outline colouring with inset view of the River Dee at Chester. The chart showing the whole of Ireland and the Westcoast of England from Cornwall to Cuningham in the north. A fine impression on good thick paper bearing the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. Folded down the center. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated then those of any preceding book of its kind.This cart is without year place and "par ordre du Roi" pointing to a later print but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the most recent impression from 1792. Koeman IV425:10. </em> unknown
169316118Very large engraved seechart measuring 61 x 875 cm. in original outline colouring with large inset view of the harbour of Kinsal and Kinsal River. The chart showing the Westcoast of Ireland from Bay of Roonstahound to Kiriec in lower left corner C. Berey scr. A fine impression on good thick paper with the watermark: BYCOLUMBIER. fOLDED DOWN THE CENTER. <br/><br/><em>The "Neptune Francois" was published in 1693 and its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any preceding book of its kind. The chart is without year place and "par Ordre du Roi" pointing to a later issue but issued from the original copperplate. It is also without "Imprimerie Royale" belonging to the imprints from 1792. Koeman IV425:11. </em> unknown