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18691336086Place of publication not identified: Publisher not identified 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 240pp.; VG; bound in brown cloth no lettering on spine gilt lettering on front board; mild shelfwear including peeling to corners small part of tail of spine missing wear to head of spine; mild age-toning to pages; interior clean; index in rear; shelved case 8 1/2. 1336086. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Publisher not identified hardcover books
188726987Washington D.C.: Navy Department 1887. 31 pages; the first half having to do with naval requisitions & purchases their proper authorizations and procedures and the following are various forms and requisition blanks including a folding sheet for itemizing clothing and small-stores; according to D.B. Harmony Acting Secretary of the Navy signed in print Title page with the small somewhat faint previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 5" x 8"size; plain stapled cream paper; little darkened; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Navy Department paperback books
187626834Portsmouth New Hampshire: O.M. Knight Publisher 1876. 84 pages. Giving a hundred-year history of this naval yard with a prefatory list of the Commandants of the Yard & their dates of service and a "List of Vessels of War built at this Station" for the Royal Colonial and the Navy of the United States at back; also an Appendix with various attestations a List of officers and petty officers of the U.S. Frigate Raleigh August 1775. Author Fentress was a long-time veteran of the Navy serving in the Civil War before capture and imprisonment at Libby Prison. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; original printed light pinkish-tan paper wrap covers; some wear spotting & dustiness to covers; faint old crease-line; contents in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. O.M. Knight, Publisher paperback books
189126982Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1891. 104 pages. With reports and statistics fiscal requirements and findings for various naval yards and establishments and the overall health of the U.S. Navy. Especially for the larger facilities as the Norfolk yards the report has much detail on nearly every aspect of base life; the quarters food water hygiene and other topics of vital interest to the well-being of the service. Approx. 5 3/4" x 9"size; bound in the original gray-blue printed paper wraps Some wear & darkening to the binding & text color dull; back cover edge-chipped a bit; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Government Printing Office paperback books
1883153130Washington DC.: Government Printing Office. 1883. hardcover. very good with no dust jacket; wear to extremities. 8vo. Government Printing Office. hardcover books
1868285943Washington: Government Printing Office 1868. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. The Bureau of Navigation Navy Department's booklet General Instructions for Hydrographic Surveyors. Dampstaining to the bottom edge of the second half of the textblock. Writing in ink on the front wrapper. Engraved plate of "Brooke's Deep Sea Sounding Apparatus" at the rear. Blue printed paper wrappers. Very Good. 62 pp. Very Good binding. Government Printing Office 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
18898231baDetroit MI: Winn & Hammond 1889. Book. Good condition. Paperback. Civil War; 13p.; 22cm; original blue paper wrapper discolored chipped; War papers #16. Winn & Hammond Paperback books
181943280Pembroke 1819. Letter very good accounting good edges chipped and stained some loss at top edge. 2 leaves. Folio. Early 19th c. American Navel documents. 1. Retained copy of letter dated May 31 1819 Pembroke to John Roger President of the Navy Commissioners Washington by Nathaniel Cushing. "I received your favour of the 24th Instant requesting me to make. anchor one of 846 and one stream of 280 to be delivered with others at Washington. as an extension of our contract. I went to work repairing my works which owing to some of the timbers becoming rotten I have but just got them repaired. will have the anchors all done certainly by the first of Oct. I have agreed with Messrs. Binney & Ludlow to convey them on to Washington as they are made. 1. An accounting of anchors from at least five firms including N. Cushing. Docket reads: "Accounts of anchors sent to Portsmouth and treasury notes received all settled and all the notes divided and paid Sep. 12 1815. Nathaniel Cushing 1762-1827 ran an iron works making anchors in particular in Pembroke Plymouth County Massachusetts. Wintertur has a fine collection of his records but not this document. 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
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
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
18299021127Edinburgh / London: Printed for Cadell & Co. / Simpkin and Marshall 1829. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in full dark blue calf with spines and board edges stamped and decorated in gilt. Gilt stamped spine labels are rubbed and chipped more than half gilt lost but impressions still legible. Boards are rubbed at the heads heels extremities and bottom edges. Volume one has a separated front inner hinge. Volume two front inner hinge has started but is holding. Marbled endpapers. Fold-out map in color bound in to volume one. Three tables on one fold-out sheet bound in to volume three <br/><br/> Printed for Cadell & Co. / Simpkin and Marshall hardcover 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
188256285Washington: Government Printing Office 1882. First edition 8vo pp. 48; 1 large folding plate of the boiler for the vedette boats; original printed blue wrappers; pressure stamp in the front wrapper back wrapper slightly chipped; all else near fine. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office unknown books
188356284Washington: Government Printing Office 1883. First edition 8vo pp. 62; 1 large folding table 1 large folding plate of the boiler several other illustrations in the text; original printed gray wrappers; a couple of inoffensive library marks on title page recto and verso otherwise fine. Includes data on dimensions weight and performance. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office unknown books
1857218260Washington D.C. 1857. In all 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. Livingston letter stained and separated at fold others very good. In all 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Career of Rear Admiral John W. Livingston. John W. Livingston 1804-1885 naval officer from New York City was the son of a naval surgeon William Turk in 1843 Turk and his wife Mary Livingston Turlk changed their name to Livingston. Livingston rose throught the service and untimately became Commodore during the Civil War and was promoted rear admiral in 1868. See DAB<br/><br/>The earliest letter here is a grant of one month's leave of absence to "Lieut. John W. Turk." In the form letter fromthe Dept. of Navy of 1855 the Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles W. Welsh summons Livingston to appear at a General Court Martial on board the "Receiving ship North Carolina at New York on the 28th day of April" 1855; and the letter from Captain Thomas A. Conover "Flag Officer Comdg U.S. Armed Force Coast of Afroca" conveys orders to Livingston then in command of the U.S.S. St. Louis to "proceed with all despatch to Cape Palmas on the West Coast of Africa and look after our interests in that quarter. unknown books
186463452Richmond VA 1864. 4to one-page on blue paper the text in full: "In compliance with your request I have the honor to transmit herewith copy of my letter to the Hon. W. Porcher Miles on the subject of the torpedo boats"; with a "Rebel Archives" stamp on verso. Chambliss 1809-1875; Sussex County Virginia plantation owner and member of the Confederate House of Representatives 1862-1865 was a member of the house Naval Affairs committee and William Porcher Miles 1822-1899; Mayor of Charleston South Carolina 1855-1857 U.S. House of Representatives 1857-1860 Confederate House of Representatives 1862-1865 was chairman of the house Military Affairs committee. This letter was written several months after the Confederacy's first torpedo boat the David made its initial attack against the Union ship New Ironsides in Charleston Harbor 5 October 1863 and two months before its second against the USS Memphis 6 March 1864. After two failed attempts at a sortie in 1863 losing 13 crew members in the process the Hunley became the first torpedo boat to actually sink a war vessel successfully completing its mission against the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor on February 17 1864. Very good Mallory's signature strong and black. Folded. 10187. <br/><br/> unknown books
183539890Rotterdam: Schrijvers 1835. pamphlet. good. 76pp. 8vo original printed wrappers; uncut & unopened spotted. Rotterdam 1835. Good.<br/><br/> Exposition of an argument that chain-cables are superior to regular cables for use on ships.<br/><br/> Schrijvers unknown 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
181539889Lisbon: Simao Thaddeo 1815. hardcover. very good. 144pp. 8vo. Lisbon 1813. Second Edition. BOUND WITH: Taboa da Declinacao do Sol ao Meio Dia no Meridiano da Cidade de Lisboa . IV 64pp. 8vo full leather. Lisbon 1815. Scarce. Very good.<br/><br/> Tables of latitude and longitude for marine navigation.<br/><br/> Simao Thaddeo unknown 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
1843290096Paris. : Imprimerie Royale. 1843. Publisher’s printed boards. . Very good light scuffing and soiling to covers contents fresh and bright with wide margins. . 4to. 31x23cm. . French text. Uncommon report of a French commission to examine slavery and politics in the French colonies. The early eighteenth century was a time of of civil unrest and slave rebellions in the colonies and public opinion in Europe was strongly anti-slavery. This led to the final abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1848. Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.4 lb. Imprimerie Royale. hardcover books
1845WRCAM15431Np 1845. 40pp. Dbd. Ink note on titlepage attributing authorship to Commander Mercer else about fine. An essay supporting the naval personnel that were apparently criticized in the above mentioned pamphlet treating mainly the issue of the hierarchy of rank and the duties of various officers especially medical officers. SABIN 69696. unknown books
