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1831350541Knight and Lacey London 1831-32. Card Covers. Very Good Condition. The Mechanics' Magazine issues from November 1831 to January 1832 contained an extensive report on steam navigation accidents documenting the findings of a Select Committee of the House of Commons. This committee was formed to investigate the frequent calamities occurring in steam-powered vessels and to propose solutions to prevent future disasters. The report primarily written by Colonel Sibthorpe the committee chairman ran to approximately 70 columns and covered : Detailed accounts of steamship accidents including causes and consequences ; Technical assessments of steam engine failures and structural weaknesses in vessels ; Safety recommendations including improved boiler designs and operational protocols ; and economic and legislative considerations discussing the impact of regulations on steam navigation. These discussions were crucial in shaping early maritime safety regulations influencing the development of safer steamship designs and operational standards. The Mechanics' Magazine played a vital role in disseminating these findings to engineers shipbuilders and policymakers. The collection consists of the following seven complete issues: No. 433 Nov 26th 1831 to No. 439 Jan 7th 1832. Genuine Original and Packed with Innovation! This weekly magazine isn't just a fragment of history it's a window into the cutting-edge advancements of the Victorian era! Since 1823 The Mechanics' Magazine has tackled revolutionary topics from printing presses to vapor baths hydrostatics and hydraulics. It dives into breakthrough safety measures preventing explosive contaminated air while exploring the mechanics of oxy-hydrogen blowpipes and self-laying rail carriages. Every page crackles with Victorian-era engineering brilliance capturing the relentless drive for invention that shaped the modern world! This is an exclusive standalone issue carefully separated from its original volume; authentic original and uniquely crafted. It is not a reprint or reproduction but a distinct piece in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Mechanics' Magazine; New Arrivals; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Knight and Lacey unknown
1893622006The Builder London 1893. Unframed Print. Very Good Condition. A double sheet print image area approx. 20 x 38 cms. This is an original page from The Builder journal. Note; this is an original item separated from the volume not a reprint or copy. The Builder a prominent architectural and building periodical holds immense significance. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding the architectural debates delving into the histories of specific buildings and exploring broader discussions related to the social upheavals triggered by rapid industrialization and urban expansion. Category: Builder & Building News; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. The Builder unknown
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
183349821New York: G & C & H Carvill 1833. First Edition. Octavo. Original pebble-grained boards; paper spine title; 1-78-1582pp. Backstrip partially detached ; spine label faded barely legible; text fresh and unmarked - Good or better. Ex-U.S. Naval Lyceum with ink pressure stamp to endpapers and title page with de-accession dated 1927 on verso of title page. Pencil ownership inscription of a "Thos. J. Manning U.S. Navy" at head of title page. Verso of final text leaf prints a brief list of errata. G & C & H Carvill unknown
189486157Imprenta Navegación y Comercio 1894. hardcover. Bueno. Madrid 1894. Imprenta de Navegación y Comercio. Tela lomo piel. Ilustrado con numerosas láminas una desplegable fuera de texto. Sello anterior propietario. Contiene publicidad de la época. 23x16. 326 pp. Imprenta Navegación y Comercio hardcover
1898016787International Navigation Company New York 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 9 5/8" x 7 1/4". . Black cloth over boards with black and white images pasted down to front and rear boards unpaginated extensively illustrated in black and white. Corners and spine ends lightly worn binding loose front free end paper and limitation page detached but present inked note on front paste-down reads: "This copy belongs to Hector R. Campbell "St. Louis" 2nd Officer". Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 5 oz. Category: Nonfiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016787. . International Navigation Company hardcover
189863151898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. International Navigation Co. Pub. NY 1898; 1st edition; Art Work by various artists; very good condition; bound in hard cover cloth with picture paste-downs to front and rear cover; mild rubbing to edges of photo on front cover and previous owner's bookplate to front end-page else a fine copy; Maritime hardcover
1898106031Washington: Government Printing Office 1898. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 740pp. tipped-in erratapp. Octavo in original gilt lettered blue cloth with plates from photos and drawings some folding - including ship plans and elevations and folding maps including colour. Faint dampstain to edges of text block top corner else very good. very good Spine Title: "Naval Operations of the War with Spain.". An appendix to the official report by the United States Navy Department Bureau of Navigation "relating to the operations of the war with Spain and covering as well important operations of the Department before during and after the war." pp.3 grouped according to general subject. 1898 Government Printing Office hardcover
18820007631Chicago: Fergus Printing 1882. First Collected edition. printed wrappers. Fine. 12mo 208 pages as new folded but never sewn. <br/><br/>Fergus Historical Series no.18. Includes William Mosley Hall's speech "A National Railroad to the Pacific" the first speech promoting a trans-continental railroad for America. Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln was a delegate to this Convention: his brief speech there was his first before a nationwide platform - and it caught the ear and mind of Horace Greely also a delegate that this Lincoln was an up-and-comer. see Howes C371; Gutter Between the Waters and the Wind 14. Fergus Printing unknown
1882DEMO016530IChicago: Fergus Printing 1882. First Collected edition . Flexible covers. Very Good. 12mo208 pages untrimmed wrappers 1 short tear else fresh <br/><br/>Fergus Historical Series no.18. Includes William Mosley Hall's speech "A National Railroad to the Pacific" the first on this subject Chicagoans focussed on getting support for the Illinois & Michigan Canal which would tie together the western waters of the Great Lakes with the great inland navigable rivers. "The meeting of that Convention raised the value of the Chicago property at once and was the starting point of its unheard of prosperity - Wm. M. Hall Commissioner." This is a much expanded annotated and indexed treatment of the original 1847 publication. This convention caused Abraham Lincoln's first visit to Chicago which he addressed on two occasions in its 3 days. see Howes C371; Gutter Between the Waters and the Wind 14. Fergus Printing unknown
18970005133New York: Harper & Brothers 1897. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 16 color plates 120 photogravures 4 folding maps in pockets. Quartos green cloth Vol. 1 torn at head of spine inked 1897 inscriptions on blank pages. <br/><br/>In the space of 280 years previous to 1893 the combined efforts of all the Arctic expeditions succeeded only in travelling 150 miles nearer the Pole. Dr. Nansen in three years penetrated 200 miles beyond the farthest point then reached. Originally published at $10. Publisher's advance prospectus in front pocket. 16 color plates 120 photogravures 4 folding maps in pockets. Bennett PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS p.82 - "The 16 colored plates are on a par with all the rest of this fine and honest and permanent work.". One of his aims was to explore arctic ocean currents. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 384; Arctic Bibliography 11983. Preceded by the Danish edition in 1897. 120 photogravures 4 folding maps in pockets. Harper & Brothers hardcover
188740498N.p.: N.p. 1887. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 7pp. Very good. Outer wrappers faintly soiled and mildly edgeworn. Probable sole edition of this bibliographically-cryptic pamphlet presenting the case of Lefferts W. Lloyd Catherine W. Mitchell and Samuel F. Engs each the administrator of the estate of a deceased versus the United States in this "French Spoliation Claim" -- claims made by U.S. citizens against France Holland and Spain for ships and goods seized by privateers prior to September 30 1800 at ports controlled by those countries -- a rather sizeable and definitely bizarre category of strange maritime documents with claims made by descendants into the 20th century. This particular claim involves John and Abraham Franklin and their ship "Hunter" commanded by William Whitlock. In 1798 she sailed from New York headed for France and then China but was captured by a Spanish and then a French privateer -- it all gets hairy and convoluted but in the end the ship and goods were damaged and the descendants seek $75000 in damages. N.p. paperback
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
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
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
1878z015739Paris: Chargeurs Reunis Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur 1878. Good. Letter of transmittal from a Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur agent to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York. French language measures 8.5 by 10.5 inches recto only. Good. Chipping and paper repair to extremities edges toned else clean and unmarked. Chargeurs Reunis Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur unknown
1878z015742Marseille: Compagnie De Navigation Mixte 1878. Good. Letter of transmittal from a Compagnie De Navigation Mixte agent to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York. French language measures 8.5 by 7 inches recto only. Good. Paper repair to verso. Lightly creased stain to upper right corner else clean and unmarked. Compagnie De Navigation Mixte unknown
1877z015748London: Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company 1877. Very Good. Two page letter of transmittal from a Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company agent to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York. Measures 8.5 by 11 inches recto only. Very good. Pages toned and lightly creased else clean and unmarked. 2p. Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company unknown
18966694Washington. Government Printing Office. 1896. Bound in gilt titled royal blue cloth. Square 8vo. First Edition. Mild scuffing to covers corners gently rubbed mild foxing to prelims. A Very Good copy. Government Printing Office. hardcover
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
18880009730New York 1888. First edition. Map. Fine. 15 x 11 inches / 36 x 26 cm 3 folds matted glazed and framed. Very Scarcce <br/><br/>This map was removed from an Annual Report. The black-and-white map shows the boundaries of Illinois in outline presenting the Illinois River improved passage from Chicago to Grafton where it pours into the Mississippi River. It also shows the Rock River traversing to the Quad Cities. Toward the east is the Illinois & Michigan Canal the DesPlaines River the Little Calumet River and the Little Kankakee River and Calumet Harbor. The map is attributed to Thomas H. Handburg. The University of Illinois-Urbana has a photocopy of it from the photocopy in the National Archives. I have not identified to which Annual Report this belonged Nor can I find another map attribued to Thomas H. Handburg. 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,
185854442n.p. n.d. 1858. 8vo pp. 20; self-wrappers; fine. UC-Riverside and AAS only in OCLC. In 1855 while charting the Rio de Plata Basin the United States ship U.S.S. Water Witch was fired upon by a Paraguayan fort killing the helmsman Samuel Chaney. This outraged the U.S. government who along with the U.S. & Paraguay Navigation Company decided to bring the incident to the Supreme Court. In 1858 began the Paraguay Expedition the purpose of which was to demand an apology from the Paraguyan government and to address alleged insults against the Navigation Company. The result of the expedition was that Paraguay apologized the Chaney's family was indemnified and a new advantageous commercial treaty between Paraguay and the United States was forged. unknown
18844002Washington DC: GPO 1884. fair ex-lib. 219 fold-out illus. tables fr bd weak pencil name ins fr bd lib stamps bds scuffed & edges worn sm tears at sp & lib sticker. GPO unknown
18834004Washington DC: GPO 1883. fair ex-lib. 119 plates fold-out illus. tables bds weak & sm tears bds scuffed & edges worn sm pcs missing at spine & lib sticker. GPO unknown
