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1857ABC_46672HMS Cyclops:: Oman Khuriya Muriya Islands Yemen Egypt Red Sea Arabian Sea Pakistan Sri Lanka and other places 1857. Contemporary brown cloth over boards rebacked in period-style black calf with the spine lettered in gold: "Log H.M.S. Cyclops". Folio 20 x 31.5 cm. Over 360 pp. of manuscript entries written with brown ink in a legible hand on watermarked laid paper with a blue cast. With 8 pen and ink nautical charts and 5 sketches of coastal sites including the city of Muscat 8 on the logbook pages and 5 on separate thick album leaves. Historically significant manuscript logbook containing a detailed record of the first attempt to lay a submarine telegraph cable to connect London with British India. The expedition took place from May 1859 the Red Sea leg from Suez to Aden to February 1860 from Aden to the Khuriya-Muriya Islands Muscat and Karachi. The two specially designed cable ships the Imperador and Imperatrix were supported by HMS Cyclops which surveyed the coastlines and reported on the depth and structure of the ocean floor.The entries from February 1859 to May 1860 documenting the ship's Red Sea and Arabian Sea mission span over 200 pages. We first find the Cyclops near Cape Ras al Hadd on the eastern coast of Oman at the entrance to the Gulf of Oman: "Cape Ras al Hadd . terminates in a low sandy spit at the head of which is a village and mud fort. There is an inlet about 4 miles to the northward of the cape but inaccessible to large vessels. There is a heavy surf on the beach during northerly winds" 9 February 1859. The ship then plied in the Red and Arabian Seas between Egypt Yemen and Oman eventually finishing in Bombay.During its expedition the Cyclops visited and moored in Quseer and Zabardag Island Egypt Suakin Sudan Perim Island Strait Bab-el-Mandeb Yemen the Hanish Islands Yemen Palinurus Shoal and Cape Fartak Yemen al-Hallaniyah and al-Qibliyah Khuriya Muriya Islands Oman Ras Madrakah and Ras al Hadd Oman Charna Island and Karachi Pakistan. The logbook entries record the soundings and the laying of cable along with quotidian ship activity. Brief entries touch on the death of crew members; discharging coal; punishing men for wrongdoing; maintenance of the ship; other ships in company; visits on board by local notables etc. Six larger entries occupying up to two pages of text describe the topography landmarks soundings and economy of Karachi Zabargad Island and Muscat Cove this last harbour said to be "formed by Muscat Island on the east and Ras Muscat on the West it is one mile deep by half a mile wide with 12 fathoms at entrance decreasing to 3 fathoms ahead of the town. It is defended by two . batteries on the island one on the height to the seat of town and two on Ras Muscat. They are all in a stay ! - or: state of decay. The entrance to the cove is difficult to make out when coming from the eastward . The exports of Muscat are wheat dried fish dates and cattle the imports being European and Indian manufactured goods sugar etc. The revenue is about £100000. The Imaum's Palace faces the water his army generally consists of from 10 to 12000 men and the fleet of 2 frigates 2 corvettes a transport and brig the greater part of the Navy having been removed to Zanzibar the Captains of these vessels being educated at Bombay or Calcutta. Supplies of all kind are cheap and plentiful. Boats may be hired thro' the medium of the Agent of the Indian Government for the shipment of coals" 26 November 1859.Illustrated with eight well-executed pen and ink nautical charts showing the routes of the Cyclops in the Red and Arabian Seas as well as the harbours of Muscat Cove and other places. Five beautiful ink sketches show the city of Muscat "Hallani Bluff from Addington Cove" al-Hallaniyah the largest of the Khuriya Muriya Islands Oman Ras Fartak Yemen Karachi harbour and Colombo.The cable too lightly armoured and laid with too little slack soon failed: indeed the 1859 section had already broken down by the time the route was completed in 1860. Messages were passed over individual sections but the entire cable never worked as a unit. Communication to India would not be established until the 1864 Persian Gulf cable was laid. The captain of the Cyclops the noted British navigator and Arctic explorer William Pullen 1813-87 took part in the unsuccessful 1849 attempt to rescue Sir John Franklin's disastrous expedition in search of a northwest passage then in the same year became the first European to sail along the north coast of Alaska in his voyage from the Bering Strait to the Mackenzie River in Canada.A final part of the log comprising some additional 150 pp. May 1860-May 1861 covers the Cyclops's survey of the southeast coast of Ceylon and her return voyage to England. Overall an important content-rich source on the early history of the submarine telegraph cable around the Arabian Peninsula to British India.In good condition. Oman, Khuriya Muriya Islands, Yemen, Egypt, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other places, hardcover
1735LC4E9Q4RAGZBHolland 1735. Green paper wrappers made from a discarded prospectus or the wrapper of an instalment of a book ca. 1865 sewn at 6 stations some perhaps without supports later green cloth spine with the title in manuscript on the front wrapper. Folio 31.5 x 20.5 cm. A manuscript course in navigation written in brown ink on laid paper in a largely upright cursive hand with 6 colour figures including 2 volvelles about 100 black and white diagrams and numerous tables of data highlighted with a yellow wash. A detailed manuscript course in the art of navigation in folio format with figures in colour including two volvelles partly based on the very rare first edition in 8vo format of Klaas de Vries 1662-1730 Schat-kamer ofte konst der stier-lieden 1702; Crone 374 probably in the first issue not known to survive before the insertion of an additional quire between B and C. But the manuscript doesn't merely copy the printed book: at least much of the text differs and also at least some of the tabular data and some of the figures also have no direct equivalents in the printed book also not in later editions as far as we have seen. The colour illustrations include a compass rose 13.8 cm diameter with a ship in the centre directly copied from the folding engraved plate in De Vries and virtually the same size but the ship in the centre is copied in mirror image and De Vries's abstract floral decorations in the corners outside the circle are replaced by colour drawings of four different flowers one in each corner. The manuscript also directly copies De Vries's woodcut illustration of a human hand marked with the numbers "29" "9" and "19" on the thumb and the letters A B and C next to them presented as an aid to calculating the epact the number of days past the new moon on 1 January but the hand is rotated 180 degrees. Most of the examples of calculations use years in the period 1700-1711 though there are a few later ones one example uses the year 1809! which also largely agrees with the 1702 edition of De Vries though the examples are not identical. The clearest indication that the present manuscript follows the 1702 edition rather than a later one is that the tables giving differences between the positions of the sun and moon cover the years 1701-1704 as in the first edition before the insertion of an extra quire extending the tables to 1710 B8 was replaced at the same time not noted by Crone. All later editions we have seen give these tables and the examples of calculations for later years. Yet even in these tables the data in the present manuscript doesn't exactly agree with De Vries's. With a bookseller's ticket ca. 1901/1919. Very slightly browned with occasional minor spots or ink stains but still in good condition. The one leaf that appears to be lacking may have been deliberately cancelled by the compiler. The wrapper has a later cloth spine as noted and is somewhat worn. A fascinating manuscript course in navigation with volvelles and other figures in colour partly based on the very rare first 1702 edition of De Vries's handbook but not merely copying it.l For De Vries's 1702 handbook: Crone 374 collation not entirely correct. hardcover
1710ABC_46964The Netherlands 1710. Contemporary flexible paperboards. Folio 33.5 x 21.5 cm. With more than 300 mathematical figures and illustrations mainly full- half- and quarter-circle diagrams. The Dutch text is written in a clearly legible 18th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Early 18th-century Dutch manuscript on the art of navigation based on Klaas de Vries Schat-kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden . 1702. De Vries taught mathematics in Amsterdam his work proved very popular and appeared in numerous editions between 1702 and 1818. The author of the present manuscript unknown but was most likely a student of mathematics possibly even a student of De Vries himself at the beginning of the 18th century.The manuscript deals with several subjects regarding navigation including many different calculations for calendars for example the golden number the tides and determining the time at night. Furthermore theories and examples of correcting compass declination and determining the time of sunrise and sunset from the declination of the sun in combination with the pole star map reading and course calculation. It ends with approximately 50 sample problems in trigonometry and geometry showing the student author's mathematical work.Binding soiled edges frayed lacking the first 7 leaves quires 3 and 5 detached. With several ink stains the ink has bled through some leaves. Otherwise in good condition. An interesting manuscript on navigation probably from a Dutch student ca. 1702/13.l For De Vries's work: The Crone library 374 1st ed 1702. hardcover
1900176895Shanghai: Brewer & Co. c.1900. From the Chefoo Bluff to Lamtong Head Sole edition untraced institutionally the copy of Vice-Admiral Seymour's chief of staff in Tianjin during the Boxer Uprising. This photographic guide is designed for "the navigator of this changeable and frequently foggy locality" preface. We have traced only one other copy which appeared in commerce in 2017. Navigators in the late Qing period could rely on only a small network of lighthouses and fixed navigational aids when sailing the Chinese coast. "In thick weather even a person familiar with the coast is at a loss to identify a well-known Islands with its summit" preface. The thirty views include the Chefoo Bluff in the Pechili Gulf the waters near the Hieshans Light House Zhejiang and Hong Kong's Lamtong Head. A concerted period of lighthouse-building in the 1910s and 1920s obviated the need for further publications of this kind. Provenance: though unmarked as such this copy was owned by Captain Edward Henry Bayly C.B. 1849-1904 Commander of the International Forces at Tianjin in June 1900. Bayly had a lifelong career in the Royal Navy. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in September 1873 commander in June 1887 and captain in January 1894 having served overseas in numerous ships. Bayly captained HMS Pelorus during the fleet review for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897 and in 1899 became captain of the armoured cruiser HMS Aurora on the China station. During the Boxer Uprising he replaced the wounded John Jellicoe as chief of staff to Seymour was mentioned by Seymour in dispatches and remained at Tianjin until the withdrawal of naval forces. He retired at his own request in February 1904. Landscape octavo. With 30 mounted collotypes within red frames. Original red cloth front cover lettered in gilt white coated endpapers leaves hinged with white linen as issued. A little shaken binding sunned and stained contents well preserved a little toning at fore edges: a very good copy. hardcover
1928174745Likely Shanghai: 1928-34. Mariners are warned to exercise due caution when approaching and when in the waterways A collection of otherwise untraced notices to mariners compiled by a civilian captain who plied the lower Yangtse during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Yangtse shipping was regulated by the Maritime Customs Service which issued around 100 navigational advisories per year. During the late 1920s shipping traffic on the Yangtse rebounded after several years of decline during the Warlord Era. Low water however continued to pose problems for navigators and increased the need for effective river management. The 39 notices are technical directions concerning specific parts of the channel. They specify when vessels may and may not enter stretches of water warning of the persistent presence of Chinese craft not subject to the same notices offer guidance for navigating buoyed channels provide optimum bearings and relay a change to the position of the Bend and Gravener Island beacons due to the erosion of the channel. The majority date from 1929. The identify of the "Captain Smith" referenced on the front cover has proved elusive but he may be the individual pictured in photograph Sw13-045 G. Warren Swire collection SOAS. Landscape octavo. Contemporary brown half cloth binder with metal clasp spine lettered in gilt buff paper sides front board with manuscript label "Captain Smith" boards lined with pink paper typescript list of charts on inner front cover 39 sheets each typed one side only in black or blue most duplicate typescript a few top copy. Boards lightly soiled clasp rusted sheets generally well preserved a few creased or with holes near clasp legibility unaffected typescript list with a few losses to text: a very good example. hardcover
1892184592Karachi: Published by the Chairman Karachi Port Trust 1892. Traced in only one institutional library First edition of this scarce guide for pilots and mariners with the tipped-in compliments slip of the secretary of the Karachi Port Trust addressed in manuscript to the Swedish shipping firm K. O. F. Dalman. The guide details the specifications of the harbour mooring charges pilotage and towage charges and the size of recent trade. The four appendices include a July 1892 notice to mariners a list of steamers to leave port in the preceding year a name list for the Karachi's chamber of commerce and foreign consuls and the text of a Sind Gazette article on a recent survey by the port engineer. WorldCat records a copy at the University of Western Australia. Octavo pp. 34. Tissue-guarded frontispiece 3 colour folding maps regional map extending from Tibet to Arabia; plan of Karachi harbour plan of suggested additional wharfage. Original blue cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Text block now loose in covers but in itself sturdy cloth with some staining and marking wharfage plan with small closed tear just crossing neatline: very good. hardcover
1955ABC_47446London 1955. 8vo. Published for the Hydrographic Department Admiralty Original blue cloth with yellow lettering on the spine and the front board the supplement is loosely inserted at the end of the volume: original printed paper wrappers stapled. With a folding map printed on both sides 2 coloured plates with diagrams printed on both sides 28 plates showing coastlines and occasionally a map many printed on both sides and many some illustrations in text. 2 LI = LIII: II plus 1 1 blank 1 blank 518 1 1 blank pp; Supplement: 20 pp. The essential standard sailing directions for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden corresponding with zone NP64 on the official Admiralty charts. These nautical works - pilot guides and charts - were published by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office which provides the necessary hydrographic and marine geospatial data to all kinds of maritime organisations across the world. The publications are not only used by the British Royal Navy but can also be found on board the majority of international merchant ships. The data provided in the pilot guides and other publications are compliant with SOLAS the Safety of Life at Sea treaty guidelines and are updated constantly in weekly "Notices to mariners" and supplements to and new editions of the pilot guides whenever necessary.The present copy is the 10th edition 1955 of the pilot guide with sailing directions and other information on the weather currents radar ranges etc. relating to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden including the supplement issued in 1957. It includes an erroneous "advertisement to the eight edition" by the Hydrographer of the Navy Rear-Admiral Kenneth St Barbe Collins 1904-1982. The advertisement states that with the publication of "the ninth edition" presumably this volume the previous edition and its supplements are cancelled since the most up-to-date information has been compiled in the new edition and the weekly "Notices to mariners" that appeared after the publication of the 11th edition. The 10th edition of 1955 and its 1957 supplement were made redundant with the publication of the 11th edition in 1967. Each subsequent edition of the pilot supersedes the last which have appeared infrequently depending on newly available information from the mid-19th century until the present day.The front paste-down and recto of the first free endpaper contain a "caution" notice and room for the notation of "supplements and annual summaries of notices to mariners relating to this book" the first two pages are printed on red-pink paper. The binding shows minor signs of wear around the spine and corners of the boards the gutter after page II is somewhat weakened the head edge of the wrappers of the supplement are very slightly browned. Otherwise in very good condition. hardcover
1955K3CC18ANEAK3London: published by the Hydrographic Department Admiralty 1955. Original blue cloth with title on spine and front board; supplement with original printed paper wrappers. 8vo. With a folding map printed on both sides 2 coloured plates with diagrams printed on both sides 28 plates showing coastlines and occasionally a map many printed on both sides and many some illustrations in text. Including: Supplement no. 1-1957 relating to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden pilot tenth edition . Tenth edition of a work "comprising sailing directions for the Suez canal the Gulf of Suez and the central track for power vessels through the Red sea Straits of Bab-al-Mandab and Gulf of Aden ." p. III and more areas. Besides navigation it deals with the climate weather and ocean streams of the area. The first chapter also gives and "general description of countries bordering the Red sea and Gulf of Aden" p. V. Including two copies of the supplement. Spine slightly discoloured otherwise in very good condition. published by the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, hardcover
1967ABC_46470London: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office 1967. Grey-blue back wrapper; the two quires map and back wrapper held together by two metal staples. Blue cloth with title information in yellow on front cover and spine the supplement loosely inserted at the end of the volume. Large 8vo. The main work with 3 maps including 2 folding and 82 views of coastal profiles on 52 plates. The supplement with 2 folding maps on the two sides of a single folding leaf and 4 views of coastal profiles on 3 pages. With: NAVIGATION - RED SEA - PILOT GUIDE. Supplement No. 7 - 1977 to Red Sea and Gulf of Aden pilot eleventh edition 1967 corrected to 4th March 1977 Whenever reference is made to the pilot this supplement must be consulted.London United Kingdom Hydrographic Office 1977. The essential standard sailing directions for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden corresponding with zone NP64 on the official Admiralty charts. These nautical works - pilot guides and charts - were published by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office which provides the necessary hydrographic and marine geospatial data to all kinds of maritime organisations across the world. The publications are not only used by the British Royal Navy but can also be found on board the majority of international merchant ships. The data provided in the pilot guides and other publications are compliant with SOLAS the Safety of Life at Sea treaty guidelines and are updated constantly in weekly "Notices to mariners" and supplements to and new editions of the pilot guides whenever necessary.The present copy is the 11th edition 1967 of the pilot guide with sailing directions and other information on the weather currents radar ranges etc. relating to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden including the supplement issued in 1977. The first two pages are printed on red-pink paper. Binding slightly rubbed and faded board edges very slightly soiled fore-edge of the supplement slightly frayed. Overall in good condition. United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, hardcover
1920185017Likely Shanghai: no stated publisher 1920. Held in only one institutional library First edition the majority of the 31 notices concerning pilotage harbours and port sanitation. Accompanying the text are two anchorage plans and the full bilingual text of the 1918 Ningbo harbour regulations which were formally propagated in 1919. The ports and harbours covered include Shanghai Wenzhou Chefoo Tianjin Hankou Fuzhou Amoy Swatow Santuao and Canton. While some notices merely repeal or tweak existing orders 14 provide substantial new directions for navigators and shipping often extending across multiple pages. This and one other copy were sometime deaccessioned from the Foreign Office Library. The library's retained copy held in the FCDO Historical Collection at King's College London is the only other example we have traced. Octavo. With folding plans of Ningbo and Zhenhai anchorages 4 folding text sheets with Ningbo harbour regulations in English and Chinese. Original buff boards brown cloth backstrip front cover lettered in black. Ex-Foreign Office Library with its date label and stamps on boards bookplate accession notation and withdrawal stamp. Volume hole-punched top left throughout contents unaffected save for numerical code at head of first page boards toned folding matter well preserved: very good. hardcover
1943172166Washington DC: United States Navy Department Hydrographic Office 1943. First edition first printing pleasingly with all the printed supplement tickets still present and the detailed maps well preserved. Updated chapters offer information on general subjects such as pilotage storm and weather signals quarantine regulations and ocean currents as well as detailed discussion of stretches of river and ocean along China's east coast down to Hong Kong and up the Yangtze. While common institutionally as expected copies are now seldom encountered in commerce. Octavo. With 2 folding maps 2 diagrammatic plates illustrations in text. With all 8 leaves 4 blank of printed supplement tickets bound in at front as issued. Original brown card wrappers spine and front cover printed in black. Ex-Civil Affairs Training School University of Chicago with its ink stamps on front cover and "discard" noted in pencil. Wrappers well preserved first map with stub tear just touching neatline second map split along one fold neatly repaired on verso with archival tape couple of small nicks and chips internally not affecting text: a very good copy. unknown
1747234865London: Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page 1747. Later approximately eleventh edition. Illustrated with woodcuts diagrams and tables. 272 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Modern quarter blue morocco and cloth. Half-title and title leaves silked at upper margin early mild dampstaining to text; a good solid copy. Later approximately eleventh edition. Illustrated with woodcuts diagrams and tables. 272 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First published in 1694 and innumerable times since throughout the 18th-century. Printed for W. and J. Mount, and T. Page unknown
18471008098vo slate blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind illustrated with frontispiece and folding charts viii 21 429 3 24 pp.Wear to spine ends spine faded small splits to joints hinges cracked copious nautical notes to endpapers slight aging but text and charts are generally clean and unworn; about very good. This is rare first edition of what is known as "The Atlantic Navigator" which includes detailed sailing instructions for the North and South Atlantic. Includes ten folding charts and much of the text is from various captains and navigators familiar the routes contained in this work. The first numbered section of 21 pages is an 1847 supplement and the catalogue at the rear is dated 1851. Sabin noting 2300 only an 1854 fourth edition. James Imray,
UT8=2=18=22=KBGood. Rare hard to find copy. Apart from short note written on title page pages are free of writing or marks. Normal wear to page edges and cover such as some tanning minor creasing and scratching but still in good condition. We ship six days a week and provide tracking. unknown
321<p><strong>NAVIGATION BEZOUT Etienne</strong> <em>Suite du cours de mathématiques à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine contenant le traité de navigation</em> Paris P. H. Pierres 1793.</p><p>8° xii 296 pages 10 folding plates 44 leaves of tables ; contemporary green morocco flat spine gilt.</p><p><strong>Last part of Bezout's mathematical course dedicated to navigation. </strong></p><p>The plates were not bound in at the time but pasted to blank leaves so they could be fully unfolded while reading the text.</p><p>The original edition was published between 1764 and 1769. Bezout was appointed examiner for the Marine Guard schools in 1764. His career was then mainly devoted to writing and teaching mathematics courses which were used for many years by candidates for military schools. This classic mathematics textbook was one of the main reference books for aspiring officers in the French royal armies in the second half of the 18th century. The last voume contains a treatise on navigation.</p><p>A beautiful copy in contemporary green morocco.</p>
184041654Paris ca. 1840. Folio. 36x25 cm. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt but somewhat rubbed. 264 pp. numerous illustrations in margins and in the text. 2 folded maps. The text is handwritten and reproduced with an etching technique probably zinkography. Internally clean and fine. unknown
1924185018Likely Shanghai: no stated publisher c.1924. First edition. Alongside notices amending and repealing existing directions the volume includes the text of four newly propagated and substantial documents concerning the ports of Amoy Yingkou Newchwang Wuhu and Qingdao as well as several non-maritime orders. This copy now deaccessioned was one of at least two sent to the Foreign Office Library in August 1924 by Judge Skinner Turner 1868-1935 the chief justice of the British Supreme Court for China from 1921 to 1927 Skinner's bequest is noted on the bookplate. The library's retained copy held in the FCDO Historical Collection at King's College London is the only other example we have traced. Octavo. Original buff boards brown cloth backstrip front cover lettered in black. Ex-Foreign Office Library with its date label and stamps on boards bookplate accession notation and withdrawal stamp. Covers and contents toned: very good. hardcover
1839331758London: Smith Elder and Co 1839. Softcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. Disbound. 49pp. folding map. Lacking wrappers; title page and folding map detached from sewing; good. A scarce report establishes an early point for the English empire’s interest in establishing a steam boat line in India and the methods by which they proposed to go about doing so. Commercial manufacturers and various merchants from Manchester Liverpool and India were enlisted to support the proposal and the report outlines navigational routes estimations of cost and the enthusiasm of changing maritime trading methods up and down the Ganges. The idea for an East India Inland Steam Navigation Company apparently began percolating in 1837 and this report fits nicely within the small pantheon of material devoted to this literature. Not in OCLC. One copy found at the British Library. Smith, Elder and Co unknown
1939RiverPilot<p>HUDSON RIVER NAVIGATION <strong>Godfrey's river and canal pilot</strong>: <strong>useful information for masters pilots mates and yachtmen navigating the Hudson River New York State Barge Canals and Long Island Sound. Compiled by Daisy M and Frank H Godfrey. Rome NY: Republican Printing Company 1939. 8vo 33pp; blue textured paper covers lettered in silver a fine copy overall.</strong></p><p><strong>First and apparently only printing OCLC locating only two copies. Extensive listing of magnetic compass courseCayuga Ls including the Hudson River both North and South bound Oneida Lake Cayuga Lake Seneca Lake Erie Canal Oswego Canal Buffalo Harbor Long Island Sound and New Haven maint entrance to Stratford Point. </strong></p> Republican Printing Company paperback
1913DEMO016711INew York: Dodd Mead 1913. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. photos color plates maps. Octavos dark green cloth. 443 376 pages <br/><br/>Dogged by difficulties and beaten to the pole by Amundsen by a month then their luck turned Scott's second and last expedition to the Antarctic was to explore the Ross Sea area and to reach the South Pole. bad. There were no survivors of the polar party. Vol.1 is the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott. Vol.2 is the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Abundantly illustrated the maps and plates are quite well done and deserve to be appreciated in the freshness and colors of the original. Dodd, Mead hardcover
151860240Seattle WA & Portland OR; San Francisco: Oregon Steam Navigation Company OSN Lithographers Britton Rey & Co. May 15 1874. Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 5.25 in. 1 lithographed stock certificate printed in red & black image of OSN sidewheeler decorative borders signed by Wygant Ainsworth & Thompson at lower fore-edge transfer printed on verso signed by Edwin M. Lewis to Mrs. Kate J. Jones w/ stamps of paid dividends in 1878 and 1880. A nicely lithographed and rare original stock certificate issued in 1874 by Jay Cooke and the Northern Pacific Railroad to raise money for OSN after many of its original stockholders had sold out in 1867 as the Company continued to compete with Ben Holladay’s Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Unfortunately OSN became entangled with the declining financial woes of the Northern Pacific to the extent that by 1879 Henry Villard representing German Bondholders in 1879 purchased the OSN paid off the certificate holders by 1880 and the company disappeared into Villard’s transcontinental railroad. Edwin Lewis in Shasta OR transferred this certificate to Kate J. Jones May 1 1875 and shows the stamps of being paid off in dividends when the Northern Pacific absorbed OSN’s four railroads 26 steamboats and real estate in Portland Astoria The Dalles Umatilla OR and Vancouver WA. Oregon Steam Navigation Company (OSN), Lithographers, Britton, Rey & Co., unknown
181555781New York: Printed for Edmund M. Blunt Oct. 1815. 8vo. xvi 297 86 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Woodcut-engraved front of the Blunt New York Shop 9 of 15 maps & charts 1 w/ partial loss several w/ additional sailing instructions and printed notices pasted-in manuscript sailing instructions and notes on versos of some. Original calf spine & calf on rear cover perished shaken dampstaining & toning still fair reference copy from the library of Captain Thomas Hall II 1804-1829 son of Captain Thomas Hall 1778-1816 who was lost at sea while sailing from Charleston to Boston in Feb. 1829 which his brother Charles Hall 1810-1829 ownership markings on endpapers of both w/ manuscript note on verso of ffep. that this is “good for a pint of ale†facing clippings about new lighthouses ca. 1821 listing the Ten Pound Island stone tower light house first built on the site in 1821. Preserved in brick-coloured linen cloth clamshell slipcase w/ printed label on spine. Eighth edition of this early vital tool for American sea captains and navigators first published in a much shorter version of only 122 pp. in 1796 and the first edition to bear only Edmund Blunt’s name as author. The original commissioned from Captain Lawrence Furlong proved so crude and unusable that Blunt arranged for it to be edited and rewritten. Blunt’s Coast Pilots were the earliest works of their type published in North America to cover the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. with sailing directions tide tables tables of latitudes and longitudes and as this copy shows were often working evolving documents with additional manuscript annotations and printed additions including in this case the Charleston Harbour map which is not included in the binding instructions and supposedly left out of the 8th edition. Printed for Edmund M. Blunt, hardcover
193937919London: HMSO 1939. First Thus Printing. fair. 446 & 275 2-vol. set illus. some color diagrams maps index errata slip boards weak worn soiled and some edge tears. Ink notations and pencil erasures on front endpapers some page discoloration. This is an important snapshot of naval navigation practice at the eve of the Second World War. HMSO hardcover
2021x-981334668XSpringer Nature 2021. Hardcover. New. 362 pages. 9.25x6.10x9.21 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
19442005200040Houston : Gulf Publishing Co 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Army Air Corps: A Rare and fine collection of the Army Air Forces in World War II. Log of Navigation. 7 issues bound as one. Bound in full blue cloth. Good binding and cover. Original pictorial wraps bound in. Clean unmarked pages. Numerous photographs maps comics. Heavily illustrated an interesting periodical. "The approved publication of the AAF Training Command." Includes: "A Camera Trip Through Army Air Forces School Hondo Texas" - a smaller photo-pamphlet; AND Log of Navigation issues: April 1944. Vol. 2 no. 4; May 1944. Vol. 2 no. 5; June 1944. Vol. 2 no. 6; July 1944. Vol. 2 no. 7; September 1944 Vol. 2 no. 9; March 1945. Vol. 3. No. 3. <br> From the former head of the U.S. Air Forces History Division. Houston : Gulf Publishing Co hardcover
