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1864174591864. 38th Cong. 1st Sess. HED47. 1864. 67 1 blank pp disbound. Lower right corner of p.61 torn some text loss. Else Good. unknown books
18561647934th Cong. 1st Sess. HED36. Washington 1856. 31 1 blank pp. Uncut untrimmed stitched. Scattered foxing. Some chipping of blank edges. Good. unknown books
1835155111835. 32d Cong. 2d. Sess. HED. NO. 63. 1853. 13pp. Folded. Lightly Spotted. Good. unknown books
1890155091890. 51st Cong. 1st Sess. Hed. No. 273. 1890. 6pp folding plates. Lightly tanned edges brittle. Good. unknown books
18681907940th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED159. 1868. 2pp. Disbound. Caption-title caption title. Some chipping of blank inner margin Good. HED159. unknown books
18631411337th Cong. 3d Sess.: HED77. 1863. 79pp Disbound with some loosening. Else Very Good. HED77. unknown books
1861154981861. 36th Cong. 2d Sess. HED. No. 78. 1861. 31pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
182117422Washington: Gales & Seaton 1821. 5 3 blank pp. Disbound. Light tanning scattered foxing. Good. Gales & Seaton unknown books
18441551728th Cong. 1st Sess. Senate. 1844. No. 392. 1844. 72pp disbound. Very Good. unknown books
1858155141858. 11pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
18561540134th Cong. 1st Sess. SED No. 1856. 44. 1856. 80pp Disbound. Very Good. unknown books
18611372936th Cong. 2d Sess.: SED4. 1861. Stitched as issued 65pp. Untrimmed partly uncut Very Good. SED4. unknown books
182217424Washington: Gales & Seaton 1822. 91 1 blank pp 2 folding charts disbound foxed. Good. Gales & Seaton unknown books
LD16849Very Good. Portrait of British captain Henry Whitby whose ship fired a shot which infamously killed an American seaman in 1806. Silhouette reverse portrait on glass 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches to sight captioned "Cpt. Henry Whitby R.N." in image; not examined outside of frame. Np early 19th century. <br/><br/>In the years leading up to the War of 1812 the British Navy made a practice of checking American merchant ships to ascertain whether embargoed French cargo was aboard. In April 1806 off New York the American merchant ship Richard refused to stop when commanded by Captain Henry Whitby's HMS Leander. A warning shot was fired in what proved to be American territorial waters. The shot was poorly aimed and splintered a railing; a shard killed an American sailor named John Pierce. This triggered an international incident with President Jefferson calling for Whitby's arrest. Whitby was cleared in a British court-martial which only increased tensions. We don't know when this portrait of Whitby was created but he was promoted to captain in 1801 and died in 1812. unknown books
1942210629New York: Grolier Club 1942. First. hardcover. very good-. Illus. 4to original blue boards ex-lib with usual markings. New York: Grolier Club 1942. One of 700 copies.<br/><br/> Grolier Club unknown books
18681908040th Cong. 2d Sess.: HED161. 1868. 2pp. Disbound. Caption-title as issued. A bit of chipping to blank inner margin else Very Good. HED161. unknown books
15954Photo album of J.J. Martin member of the Marine Corps. Photos mostly of the Americas and Spain in the 1930s. Album is 8"x11". Loosely tied leather boards with 49 pages the first 9 collecting his friends' names homes and colorful comments and nicknames about each person. Two of the three ties have come loose. Next thirty pages hold 120 photographs of Martin's travels aboard the ship within the United States down south to Central and South America and east to Europe. Some photos are captioned. There are many photos of women and children as well as photos of other marines and people aboard the U.S.S. Arkansas. There are some pages where it appears that photos have come loose. A certificate is laid in indicating that Martin crossed the equator on his way to Chile on October 221931. Photo sizes are 2"x3" to 5"x6.5".<br/><br/>The U.S.S. Arkansas was a dreadnought battleship the second member of the Wyoming class built by the United States Navy. Prior to the photos in the album the ship served in the First World War. She would later return to Europe to serve in the Second World War including as support for the invasion of Normandy. During peacetime she remained a vital ship and performed a variety of duties such as training cruises for midshipmen and goodwill visits overseas. Album in good condition leather board has slight soiling and 2 of 3 ties have come loose. Tears to some pages and photos but subjects of photos are not affected. unknown 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
186742016Washington D.C.: Gov. Printing Office 1867. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. Washington D.C.: Gov. Printing Office 1867. 311 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Brown cloth. Head and heel of spine chipped; cloth split along both hinges; bookplate on front pastedown; textblock tight and clean. Good/No dust jacket. Gov. Printing Office hardcover books
190959333New York: The Macmillan Company 1909. First edition. viii 153; vi 487 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Blue cloth. Discreet blind stamp on title pages bookplate on pastedown abrasion on fore-edge of Volume Two else fine. First edition. viii 153; vi 487 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Volume One is Bibliography printed only on rectos. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1839241925Paris: Baudry's European Library 1839. First Paris edition in English same year as the Phila. edition. Half titles present. xxv 258; viii 348 349 blank 350 Note pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Later nineteenth century evergreen morocco marbled boards. Bound without portraits or map. Some minor spotting and shelf wear owner signature of "N.S.S. Tompkins Nov. 1894" in each volume. First Paris edition in English same year as the Phila. edition. Half titles present. xxv 258; viii 348 349 blank 350 Note pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Spiller and Blackburn p. 105 calling for 3 portraits and a map; Howes C748 calling for 2 portraits; BAL 3888 note Baudry's European Library unknown books
69834Baltimore Maryland: H. G. Roebuck and Son Inc. Very Good. N.D. Hardcover. 257 page cruisebook of the USS ESSEX 1959-1960. Craftco cover navy boards with gilt and white stamping. Fully illustrated with black and white and color photos. This is a bright nice copy in Very Good condition. . (H. G. Roebuck and Son, Inc.) hardcover books
1940487131940. Navy Department. Compilation of Court-Martial Orders for the Years 1916-1937 in Two Volumes. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1940. Vol. I 1916-1927: 1-1125 pp. Vol. II 1928-1937: 1127-2205 pp. Ex-library with stamps and stamped edges. Internally clean. $55. unknown books
1943012106Washington DC: GPO 1943. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good . Blue polished paper covers spine dulled firm binding solid copy. Some pages toned others not - differentr quality paper stock used in prionting some inferior it being wartime. ix 316 pages. No previous names. GPO unknown books