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171959235Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1917-1930. Nine vols. 8vo. x 4 470; 4 687 1; ix 1 586; ix 1 750 pp. plus publisher’s ads; ii 38; 5; 1 47; 1 60 3; 1 35 7 leaves. With 4 large folding colour maps. Four uniformly bound in tan publisher’s buckram black lettering front covers & spines minor soiling spotting fore-edges of covers darkening to spines very slight uniform interior toning; remaining Supplement vols. w/ self-printed softcovers toning to fore-edges minor chipping minor soiling chipping still VG set. First edition stated of vol. III and Supplements 2nd editions of other three vols. of these surprisingly scarce coast pilot guides to the Mediterranean Sea encompassing the coasts of Spain Morocco Algeria Tunisia Libya Egypt Palestine Turkey the Balearics and more draw upon British Royal Navy Ottoman Empire & Turkish coast pilots North African Russian & U.S. Navy reports. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions. The maps outlines the available charts for the designated areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea as well as detailing those for the Black Sea volume. Very uncommon to find complete set with all supplements to 1930. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, paperback
15-9500San Francisco: S. S. Matsonia 1957. 4to. 8 pp. Two stapled folded sheets Covers with slight crease lightly browned and dust soiled else Fine. Illustrated. San Francisco: S. S. Matsonia, 1957. unknown
63-6134Honolulu Hawaii: Matson Lines 1964. 18 Pieces of Travel Ephemera Brochures Post Cards Booklet and Wine Lists from a May 1964 Cruise from Honolulu Hawaii to San Francisco. 11" x 8.5" and smaller. Color photos. Very Good. Honolulu, Hawaii: Matson Lines, 1964. unknown
1990BN151395U S Naval Inst Pr 1990. 1990. Marine Navigation: Piloting and Celestial and Electronic Nagivation <br/><br/>Marine Navigation: Piloting and Celestial and Electronic Nagivation Marine Navigation - Hobbs Richard R. U S Naval Inst Pr unknown
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
19752090202120403487Kaibundo shuppan 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kaibundo shuppan paperback
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
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
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
0365666378.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
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
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
1931ZB1037295Washington: GPO 1931. first edition 111 pp. softcover slightly toned or faded overall good-very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: GPO paperback
19275373Washington DC: GPO 1927. Revised Edition. fair. 703 illus. figs foxing to fore-edge & ins bds stamps & ink name ins fr flylf bds scuffed edges of spine worn. This revised manual contains new material on the latest combat principles developed for infantry and machine-gun units. There is also much new material on medical tactics ashore field hygiene sanitation and first aid. The enlarged chapter on machine guns includes the Marine Corps Cole cart drill extended order drill gun emplacements classes of fire range cards and the Browning automatic rifle. GPO unknown
8479021365.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0265986613.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0266986730.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. 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
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
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
19492082402113503178Not Available 1949. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 14 Not Available paperback
190922859Chicago: Chicago Association of Commerce 1909. First Edition. Quarto; 8pp. Four string-tied and stapled leaves with ten 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" mounted colored illustrations each titled in red along with a map of the route. Near Fine copy in grey cardstock titled and color photograph tipped to front cover. Rare promotional piece; we fine only 1 copy at University of Michigan. This booklet was prepared by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company the Oregon Short Line Railroad the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago & Northwestern Railway as an itinerary for the approximately 40 Chicago merchants' return trip ". calling your attention to a few of the points of interest in a country of marvellous scenes wonderful accomplishments and a still more wonderful future." Lists 38 members of the Chicago Association of Commerce making the return trip. Uncommon attractive & elaborate promotional piece. Chicago Association of Commerce unknown
