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182729386City of Washington: S. A. Elliot Printer Eleventh Street West 1827. 1st thus. Original drab stiff-stock paper wrappers with printed title label to front wrapper. Unobtrusive dampstain to lower half of wrappers & 1st 2 leaves of the text block. Period poi to ffep & t.p. Withal a solid VG copy of a scarce book. 2 67 3 pp. 1st leaf last leaf blank. 12mo. 6-1/8" x 3-3/4" <br/><br/>Contains a wealth of service information beginnning with the Office of the Secretary of the Navy $6000 per annum including date of present commission or warrant date of original entry into the service state of birth state of citizenship state of appointment & duty or station; also includes a list of vessels e.g. one 'steam' ship note the FULTON with basic data for each—e.g. when and where built and present assignment the FULTON stationed in New York as a 'Receiving Ship'. Rare edition of this fantastic historical reference which was to become a staple in Navy life how else except reference to the "Register" would one know who was senior to whom. Not in American Imprints and no holdings shown on OCLC. S. A. Elliot, Printer, Eleventh Street West unknown books
1790WRCAM18237London 1790. 22pp. plus integral blank leaf. Folding blank printed form. Folio. Gathered signatures stitched as issued. First leaf has 4 small spots some moderate edge wear final leaf a bit dusty. Docketed in print on verso of final leaf and each enactment numbered in a contemporary manuscript hand. Very good. A bill furthering the bureaucratic process to make His Majesty's Navy run smoother. Sets forth new rules for depositing exact copies of muster rolls at ports of departure with a folding blank muster roll form. unknown books
1824280295Depot-general de la Marine 1824. Sea Chart. Engraving. 24 3/4" x 37".<br/><br/> Beautiful accurate and detailed sea chart depicting the strait that separates the Isle of Wight from the southern coast of England. The strait is now known as the Solent. Chips to margin and toning. The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England. It is in the English Channel about 2 miles 3.2 km off the coast of Hampshire separated by the Solent. During the Seven Years' War the island was used as a staging post for British troops departing on expeditions against the French coast such as the Raid on Rochefort. Official French maps were generated for military use.<br/><br/> Depot-general de la Marine unknown books
1865WRCAM45556Brest 1865. 63pp. Folio. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers heavily chipped and soiled. Log completed in manuscript. Some light soiling internally. About good. Printed ship's journal completed in manuscript for the French Navy likely kept by one of the midshipmen Henry Salliard. The author's tour starts in Acapulco with stops in Mazatlan and San Francisco recording wind and position observations each day along the way. During this period France had a large military deployment in Mexico supporting Emperor Maximilian and a large naval force to match. unknown books
195431217Milano: Editoriale documentari 1954. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy with minor edgewear occasional light foxing. 613 pp. index. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. No. 522 of an unknown number of copies. Over 200 articles and entries on the reconstruction of the Italian Merchant Marine. OCLC shows no copies and none listed in any of the major European libraries but there is one at the Biblioteca della Fondazione Novara Sviluppo and a second edition 1956 at the Biblioteca civica Attilio Hortis - Trieste. Editoriale documentari hardcover books
1762WRCAM49723London 1762. Eight separate imprints. Dbd. Minor edge wear and toning. Generally very good to near fine condition. In a blue cloth slipcase gilt. A nice collection of British Acts of Parliament relating to the Royal Navy or related seagoing activities. The dominance of the British Royal Navy was unquestioned from the late 1600s until well into the 20th century. These mid 18th-century acts were printed at a time when the British Navy was swiftly ascending to the peak of its power through superior financing tactics training organization population support hygiene dockyard facilities logistical support and warship design and construction. By the early 19th century the British Navy saw little action mainly due to the lack of a worthy adversary. Each of these titles is rare with between one and four copies listed in institutions in ESTC. <br> <br> The separate imprints included here are as follows: <br> <br> 1 AN ACT TO SETTLE HOW FAR OWNERS OF SHIPS SHALL BE ANSWERABLE FOR THE ACTS OF THE MASTERS OR MARINERS drop title. London: John Baskett 1734. 2291-294pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N51352. <br> <br> 2 AN ACT FOR THE BETTER SUPPLY OF MARINERS AND SEAMEN TO SERVE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS OF WAR AND ON BOARD MERCHANT SHIPS OTHER TRADING SHIPS AND PRIVATEERS drop title. London: John Baskett 1739. 2123-126pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N51525. <br> <br> 3 AN ACT FOR THE FURTHER REGULATING AND BETTER GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVIES SHIPS OF WAR AND FORCES BY SEA; AND FOR REGULATING THE PROCEEDINGS UPON COURTS MARTIAL IN THE SEA SERVICE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1745. 2719-723pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N52070. <br> <br> 4 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF MAIMED AND DISABLED SEAMEN AND THE WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF SUCH AS SHALL BE KILLED SLAIN OR DROWNED IN THE MERCHANTS SERVICE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1747. 2835-859pp. Only two copies in ESTC. ESTC N52775. <br> <br> 5 AN ACT FOR AMENDING EXPLAINING AND REDUCEING INTO ONE ACT OF PARLIAMENT THE LAWS RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS VESSELS AND FORCES BY SEA drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1749. 2687-707pp. Only one copy in ESTC. ESTC N52967. <br> <br> 6 AN ACT FOR ENFORCING THE LAWS AGAINST PERSONS WHO SHALL STEAL OR DETAIN SHIPWRECKED GOODS; AND FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING LOSSES THEREBY drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1753. 2303-311pp. Only four copies in ESTC. ESTC N52861. <br> <br> 7 AN ACT FOR THE REGULATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S MARINE FORCES WHILE ON SHORE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1755. 2311- 331pp. Only two copies in ESTC. ESTC N56449. <br> <br> 8 AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SEAMEN AND THE MORE SPEEDY AND EFFECTUAL MANNING HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY drop title. London: Mark Baskett 1762. 2655-658pp. Only one copy in ESTC. ESTC N56728. N.A.M. Rodger THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN. A NAVAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN 1649-1815 London: Allen Lane 2004. hardcover books
026064Lederer Street and Zeus Printers; Berkeley California; 1946. Oblong Quarto. Construction battalion detachment was the one assigned to the Solomon Islands where they performed major tasks to create a major docking facility while fighting malaria and insects. This remarkable volume has hundreds of photographs that document the 1008th which was one of the larger battalions some on smaller islands had as few as sixty men. Laid in are papers of how the Association funds were spent on the printing engravings editing and other task in producing one of the most thorough Seabee volumes at the cost of $9480.50 in 1946. Only two copies are found on OCLC. Also laid in is a mimeographed list of the men and where they were located in the photographs of the entire battalion. A handsome copy near fine bound in brown and blue cloth lettered in brown and blue Owner's subscriber name stamped in gilt to upper board. [Lederer, Street and Zeus, Printers; Berkeley, California; 1946] unknown books
1986127937Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press 1986. First with English translation. Hardcover. VG / VG. Black cloth boards with white spine titling white dj with color illustration; 262 pp; 363 illustrations some in color. From the dust cover: Carlo Scarpa 1902-1978 belongs to the generation of Italian architects working in a period when political conditions placed severe restrictions on architectural expression. Yet Scarpa's achievements surpassed anything else being done in Italy between the wars and exemplified the best work done in the "Rationalist" tradition. This book considers the full spectrum of Scarpa's work concentrating especially on his museum projects. It closely follows Scarpa's complex multidimensional personality covering the vicissitudes of his career his ideas and their relationship to those of the modern masters his cultural milieu and his unique architectural contribution which is imbued with a profound feeling for craft. Over 360 black and white and full color drawings and photographs of Scarpa's built works are integrated with plans and process drawings in a way that provides an experiential as well as formal understanding of the projects. MIT Press hardcover books
1970417571970. Paper-covered boards. Very good. Imagery including photographs of a trip taken earlier in Jorge Rosa Reed's career: the Chilean Ship Crew Acaoncagua at the port of Svendbord Denmark and their visit there; and a small photo probably professionally taken of this ship; several good candid shots of men on board Chilean naval vessels launching lifeboat swabbing decks more; several photographs of attractive women friends with well-wishes Captain Jorge was a handsome man; a press photo from Stillmans Gym NY of Antonio Fernandez Fernandito Chilean champion boxer 1911-1976 inscribed to the Captain in friendship several images of cargo being loaded at dockside stevedores & company worthies; the ship "Imperial" in drydock; naval cadet school photos later portrait images of what appear to be groups of businessmen probably CSAV people; a few from a 1950's trip to Antwerp. Approximately 85 images contained in a photo album loosely mounted in at their corners not glued with approx. 25 images not mounted and laid-in; various formats and sizes all black and white; the largest about 7" x 9" size the smallest snapshot 2 1/4" x 3 1/2" with most of the images somewhere between and in generally good condition occasional wear or crinkling if they'd been dismounted; contained in period beige stiff-paper album oblong format string bound approx. 9" x 13" with wear and rubbing; with the Chilean merchant marine captain's & pilot's certification completed in manuscript "Marina Mercante Nacional Chile . Capitan de Cabotaje de la Marina Mercante Nacionale Piloto Primero ." signed by the Director del Litoral and with the original registration stamp nicely colored arms of Chile at top approx. 9 1/2" x 14 3/4" size some browning old creasing still very good and a fairly handsome document; Captain Jorge Rosa Reed c. 1916-2011 formerly an officer in the Chilean Navy for many years a director of operations for the Compania Sud-Americana de Vapores in their New York offices. CSAV one of the oldest continuously operating shipping companies in the world started in 1872; a good group of photographic material illustrating the career of a South American naval officer who went on to living in the U.S. and was involved in international shipping. hardcover books
196213560Paris: Journal De La Marine Marchande 1962. First edition. Cloth. Very Good . 4to. 350 pp plus six detailed fold-out schematics at rear of book. Text in French. A superb book illustrated with photographs and design schematics for the SS France Cruise Liner. Details about every aspect of the ship from the mechanics and engineering all the way down to the menu served. Very minor soiling to edges but an excellent copy overall in illustrated thick cloth covers with gilt lettering. A large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> Journal De La Marine Marchande hardcover books
1983149305Rome: 2T Produzione Film 1983. Vintage grande French poster from the 1983 erotic film. <br/><br/>Inspired by Ovid's 1 BCE collection of poems "Ars Amatoria" "The Art of Love".<br/><br/>Set in ancient Rome the poet Ovid Massimo Girotti teaches courses in the art of love. Cornelius Philippe Taccini one of Ovid's students sets out to test his skill on Claudia Marina Pierrro whose husband Macarius Michel Placido has gone to war. <br/><br/>47 x 63 inches. One panel. Folded as issued. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Bier p. 58. 2T Produzione Film unknown books
175323480London: Edward Owen 1753. Quarto. 46pp. plus two folding tables. Light staining to last leaf. Slight worming in outer margin of last few leaves not affecting text. Disbound.<br/> <br/>Pamphlet dealing with international law and the British seizure of Prussian ships.<br/> <br/>The second table is entitled "List of all the Prussian ships taken by British armaments at sea during the last war as well those detained for examination only as those judicially proceeded upon together with the judgments given in the Admiralty Courts of Great-Britain thereupon."<br/> <br/>ESTC T4125. Edward Owen unknown books
1753WRCAM41603London: Edward Owen 1753. 46pp. plus two folding tables. Quarto. Dbd. Light staining to last leaf. Slight worming in outer margin of last few leaves not affecting text. Very good. Pamphlet dealing with international law and the British seizure of Prussian ships. The second table is entitled "List of all the Prussian ships taken by British armaments at sea during the last war as well those detained for examination only as those judicially proceeded upon together with the judgments given in the Admiralty Courts of Great-Britain thereupon." ESTC T4125. Edward Owen unknown books
1782WRCAM43088London 1782. Broadside 10 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Minor soiling. Very good plus. A song sheet commemorating Rodney's naval victory over the French fleet under the command of the Comte de Grasse off Dominica in the West Indies. The Battle of the Saintes was a naval battle that took place over four days in April 1782 in which the British defeated the French fleet whose aim was the capture of Jamaica. This nine verse six line song tells the tale of the sea gods wakened by the fight and amazed at the glorious victory of the British. ESTC locates four copies - two at the British Library one at the Bodleian and one at New York Public. Those records mention a woodcut illustration which has been neatly trimmed off the top of the sheet and is not present here. ESTC T10517. unknown books
189019456Boston: Little Brown & Co 1890. Pictorial cloth. Very Good. The uncommon 1890 1st edition of this naval classic a book which certainly stands as among the most influential in shaping American foreign and military policy in the early part of the 20th century. A solid well-preserved copy to boot. Tight and VG to VG in its navy-blue cloth with bright gilt-insignia and titling to the front panel and spine. A bit of very light staining along the upper tips and at the spine otherwise very clean. Thick octavo top-edge gilt 4 full-page maps including 1 fold-out and 21 "plans of naval battles" complementing Mahan's text. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1865261000New Orleans 1865. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Separations at folds crude tape repairs minor chipping. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Confed. ship attempting to run the Mississippi River blockade at the close of the war. Here a Union sailor describes one of the last naval incidents of the war in which the CSS Webb made a desperate run down the Red River and the Mississippi in a bid for the open ocean before finally being scuttled by its crew past New Orleans. The unidentified author devoted most of his long letter to a description of the pursuit: "There has been a very dareing sic deed committed on this river since I wrote.All the men of war below us fired at her but did not hit her. She was going down the river at the rate of 30 miles an hour. There was a torpedo projecting from her bow. . . . The prevailing opinion here is that Jeff Davis or some other of the leaders of the Confederacy were on board. unknown books
1900012145Tokio: Tokio Printing Company Ltd. 1900. Cloth shows moderate wear. Rear cover spotted and damp-stained. Free-edge of about the last half of the book shows damp-stain and red color bled from rear cover. Internally text is crisp and clean throughout with no evidence of water-staining. This rare history was translated from the original Japanese report under the direction of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Baron Saneyoshi in full military uniform. Twenty-one full-page illustrations most of which are chromolithographs. Damp-stain around periphery of several color plates near the end but never close to the illustration. A number of black and white text illustrations and graphs. Chapters on battles and injuries brief history of the killed and wounded injury statistics causes of wounds and their classificationcomplications of wounds and management of the wounded. The first book documenting the treatment of the wounded on ships since the modern revolution in naval warfare. This treatise was inspired by the "Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion" following the American Civil War with typography and illustrations in a similar style. OCLC lists only two copies worldwide in libraries. A second edition was published in 1901. NUC 0108123. 406pp. First Edition in English. Purple Cloth. General Moderate Wear./No Jacket. Quarto. Tokio Printing Company, Ltd. Hardcover books
1930007047Various Photographers 1930. A group of 32 photographs 30 b&w and 2 color ranging in size from 4" x 6" to 7" x 9 1/2" 10 circa 1930's the rest 1957-1997 8 SIGNED signees to be determined. Credited photographers are: Ginger Gamage Forbes Jay Dee Ft. Worth TX V. Sladon NYC and John Lindquist. Some of the photos have writing verso identifying the subjects including one of Svetlova with Claudio Arrau and Mantovani. Several appear to be other noted people in the world of dance. And the 1930's photos several of which are signed appear to be friends of Svetlovas. Marina Svetlova 1923-2009 had a carrer in ballet that began as a child in 1931 and carried into the 1960's. She was a soloist with the Original Ballet Russe and a ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. In 1969 she became a Professor of Ballet and chairwoman of the ballet department at Indiana University in Bloomington until 1992 gaining a reputation as a major educator in dance. A wonderful mid-century collection depicting the career of this noted prima ballerina and educator. . SIGNED. Photograph. Near Fine. Various Photographers Paperback books
1875WRCAM36950N.p. possibly New York 1875. Ten chromolithographs on ten stiff leaves including illustrated front and rear wrappers. Each leaf is printed in chromo on recto and single color on verso except for final card which is single color on recto and chromo on verso. Oblong octavo. String-tied with promotional card 1 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches for Piso's Cure for Consumption and Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. A handsome group of American chromolithographs produced as part of a promotion for Piso medicinal products. The illustrations show an ocean steamer a Long Island Sound steamer a Mississippi River steamboat and various sailing yachts and schooners. Each of the eight types of identified vessels are illustrated with two copies of the same image facing each other printed in a single tone on the left and as a chromolithograph on the right. The single tone image also includes text indicating the type of ship and identifying parts of the vessel such as the different sails. The pamphlet was produced as a promotion for Piso's Cure for Consumption and Piso's Remedy for Catarrh both available in drugstores or by mail. The promotional card indicates that the album could be obtained for "three outside wrappers taken from bottles of Piso's Cure for Consumption or for one wrapper from a package of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. Or it will be sent for 30 cents in cash or postage stamps." <br> <br> A fine informative and presumably rare example of advertising ephemera from the last quarter of the 19th century. unknown books
1882130Washington D.C.: 1882. 32 plates in full color. Very good with light wear. hardcover books
1933D130311933-1941. Hardcover. Fine. Collection of 50 envelopes representing as many ships; displayed in archival sleeves ina 3-ring binder with printed notes on the ship and its fate. Postmarks range from 1933-1941 and the printed notes are uniformly formated. A few examples: "USS Maryland BB-46 Battleship. Hit by two bombs. Shot down one torpedo plane." -- and -- "USS Reid DD-369 Destroyer. Fired at enemy planes helping to shoot down one." Envelopes also include the occasional handwritten address many are typed and decorations celebrating St. Patrick's Day the New Year Independence Day and more. Ships include the USS Antares Arizona Bagley Blue Breese California Case Cassin Castor Chew Curtiss Dale Dobbin Gamble Grebe Honolulu Hull Jarvis Maryland Medusa Monaghan Mugford Nevada New Orleans Oklahoma Pelias Pennsylvania Perry Phelps Pruitt Raleigh Ramapo Reid Sacramento St. Louis San Francisco Schley Selfridge Shaw Solace Sumner Swan Tangier Tennessee Trever Utah Vega Vestal Ward Worden. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1595953 original silver gelatin print photographs. c. 1921-1923. Mostly 3"x5" with a few 2"x"3 inches. Loose. Original vernacular photographs most likely taken by one or more servicemen in the U.S. Navy. While many of the photographs show battleships on exercises and fellow sailors on deck including some African American servicemen at least 9 bear firsthand witness to the infamous Honda Point disaster of the coast of Santa Barbara in 1923. More photographs from the group may be the ships involved before disaster struck. At least 4 additional photographs show the famous scuttling of German destroyers at Scapa Floe which occurred after peace was declared in 1921. <br/><br/>The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8 1923 seven Clemson class destroyers while traveling at 20 knots 37 km/h ran aground at Honda Point a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the coast in Santa Barbara County California. Two other ships grounded but were able to maneuver free off the rocks. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster. Much study has been directed at determining the causes of such a terrible accident. Most likely the cause was a combination of heavy seas possibly caused by an earthquake in Japan darkness fog and the mistrust of the leadership on board the leading destroyer Delphy for the new radio navigation system preferring instead to use outdated estimation-based navigational methods. Although the Delphy immediately sounded her alarm after running aground the remainder of the squadrom was tragically traveling too close and one ship after another became entangled in the rocks. The photographs show from many views the various ships involved in the accident either listing heavily on rocks or sinking. Some of them can be identified as the U.S.S. S.P. Lee the Pervical the Nicholas the Woodbury the Chauncy and the leading ship Delphy. Most of the photos are taken very close by clearly from on board another ship perilously close to the disaster and most likely one of the fatal squadron. The final two appear to have been taken shortly after the sailor was rescued and show the wrecked vessels from the beach and from a rocky cliff overlooking the channel. <br/><br/>Four photos in the group record the incident at Scapa Floe on June 21 1919 where a German fleet of battleships was ordered by the Allies to report following the November Armistice ending World War I. They remained anchored for over 7 months and when word of the Peace Treaty of Versailles came in Admiral Reuter was ordered to surrender the vessels. However before they could be forced to comply the crew scuttled the vessels. We see in these photos the German Destroyers sinking including the S.M.S. Bayern and the S.M.S. Hindenburg with only smokestacks and tripod showing above the waterline. Another photo is labeled in the negative "German sailors leaving their doomed vessels for the last time. The remaining photographs in the group show submarines docked near San Francisco the Battleships Texas California and Florida sailors including a few African American aboard the U.S.S. Goff sailors carrying out routine exercises such as loading the deck gun launching torpedos maneuvering at speed and at least 6 photos of destroyers making heavy smoke which could be the Honda Point ships preceding the disaster. All photos are in very good condition with no previous sign of gluing or taping. Some are numbered and others have notes in white negative verso. A few are faded to sepia but most are still very dark and detailed. An important and historically relevant collection. unknown books
18745091Washington: Government Printing Office 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. 268pp. 14 sepia toned lithos after photographs by famed photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan and 17 folding maps at rear 16 are listed in the map index Short tear to map #1 near gutter; bound in original brown cloth slight fading to spine; minor fraying at spine ends and ghost of label removal; bookplate Rhode Island State Library on front pastedown and small stamp on title page; neat contemporary owner's name on title page. The present title laid the ground work for the building of the Panama Canal. Internally plates and text are clean and bright. Overall a very good copy. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
181957363Newport R.I.: printed by Wm. & J.H. Barber for the Society 1819. 8vo pp. 24; engraved frontispiece by Fairman of Providence marred by ink stains; full contemporary calf worn; small blank piece lacking from title leaf; stain on early blank leaves. Contains a list of the members from 1752 to 1819. Sectional title page for Laws of the Marine Society at p. 9; with several contemporary ink annotations in the margins including five names added to the membership list at the back. Fairman is not found in Hamilton's Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers. A 1906 Goodspeed catalogue notes of David Fairman 1782-1815 that "this is the only example of the engravers work I have seen. Stauffer says that "none of his work has been found." American Imprints 48586; Hammett p. 90; not found in Bartlett. <br/><br/> printed by Wm. & J.H. Barber, for the Society unknown books
187939943Paris 1879. may18. b/w plates. Folio159 plates. <br /><br />Atlas to the first edition of this very rare compendium of ships and ship building both naval and commercial compiled for the 1878 exposition. Much on steam ships. Details of construction and all manner of propulsion equipment. Polak 6410 citing text but not noting the existence of this impressive atlas. Atlas consists of 2 sections 1-66 and 67-159 full page folio plates in original wrappers in larger portfolio. Wrappers and portfolio chipped water stain at the bottom of the portfolio and on the bottom edges of some pages not affecting plates which are all in good condition. PICTURED - An early aqualung. books
