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1868HVD-24163-A-0D. Appleton & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Some loosening of spine. Has some wrinkled pages due to minimal liquid exposure. Yellowing to pages. - Good overall condition. General wear. No major blemishes. No writing. ; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
18642497321864. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow pictorial covers some staining. 1 vols. 8vo. The account lists the items sold the names of the purchasers and the amount paid with payment records and executor's notes in the back. $61.00 for a wagon and 10¢ for a picture. <br/><br/> unknown
185456058Auburn & Buffalo: Alden Beardsley & Co 1854. Octavo 21cm. Two volumes in one. Green cloth titled and decorated on spine in gilt; yellow endpapers; i-viii 9-336pp; frontispiece 6 wood engravings on inserted leaves and additional in-text wood engravings. Straight and stable but much rubbed spine gilt dulled spots to cloth boards exposed at corners foxed: Good. Uncommon 9 copies recorded in OCLC. Alden, Beardsley & Co unknown
185841120np 1858. 4 pp. Printed on recto of first page only. Inner pages blank. Addressed in ink on last page to Honble. Samuel W. Parker of the House of Representatives. Roughness to blank inner margin one short closed tear expertly repaired. Printed in two columns separated by a rule. Very Good.<br /> <br /> "Fair Play" is evidently a consortium of ocean mail steamers opposing efforts by competitors- - "sailing vessels or other ships propelled by steam"- - who seek government support to diminish the market for ocean mail steamers. <br /> Congressman Parker of Indiana served as such from 1851-1855. We suggest that this item was printed during that period.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of July 2025. unknown
187843652Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1878. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von G. Wiedemann." Neue Folge Bd. 3 No. 4. Entire issue offered. Pp. 465-616 a. 1 folded lithographed plate. Zöppritz's paper: pp. 582-607. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a this pioneer paper on ocean circulation and currents."K. Zöppritz presents a theoretical treatment of drif currents in "Hydrodynamische Probleme in Beziehung zur Theorie der Meeresströmungen." the paper offered. His neglect of the Coriolis force which he attempted to justify onthe basis of the slowness of movements of ocean currents leads to the conclusion that the wind-driven flow of the ocean is in the direction of the wind independent of the depth in the ocean with a speed which decreases with depth. The model is revised by Vagn Ekman after Fridtjof Nansen notes the defelction to the right of wind-induced sea ice-drift ans speculates that the cause derives from the earth's rotation."Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1878 E. </em> unknown
1845288207Boston: Waite Peirce And Company. 1845 Brown/Gilt Embossed Covers/Spine Clean Tight. Book Store Small Paste Down Colesworth's Book Store .60 Cornhill Boston Mass. A Small Oval Imprint Top Fep. Engraved Shipwreck Frontispiece Engraved Title Page Some Foxing. 8 Nautical Vocabulary. 2 11 395 Pgs. Full Page Envravings. A Fine Copy Of Scarce Maritime Literature. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3rd Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Waite, Peirce, And Company. hardcover
187729833Washington: R.O. Polkinhorn Printer 1877. 30 1 1 blank pp. Original printed tan wrappers some scoring loosening light chipping stitched. Rear wrap has engraving of the U.S. Patent Office. Light staining to the outermost edges of text else clean. Good. <br /> <br /> The inner front wrapper advertises the Washington firm of Mason Fenwick & Lawrence "Patent Agents and Attorneys." The firm's argument details the long history of this patent controversy and the entitlement of Gordon's heirs to the patent. <br /> OCLC 44009767 2-NYPL Newberry as of March 2013. R.O. Polkinhorn, Printer unknown
18302497311830. Includes:<br /> 1.Record of Auction sakle vendue held March 3 1835 by order of Benjamin Paul and Isaac Peckworth executors with the amounts each item sold for and the names of the buyers.<br /> <br /> 2. An Inventory of his possessions with their values.<br /> <br /> 3. Receipts settling debts of the Estate $1.25 for one day reaping; $0.75 for one day's shoveling dung etc.<br /> <br /> 4. Execuors' finacial accounts.<br /> <br /> 5. Six Deeds dating from 1812 to the 1830s. unknown
1882143690Washington: United States Hydrographic Office 1882. Fair. Washington United States Hydrographic Office 1882/ 1868 and 1869. A very large engraved chart in two sheets combined size approximately 940 × 1230 mm overall total size 954 × 1252 mm with minimal hand-colouring mounted together on linen. Some foxing and light soiling with a few light stains and creases and trifling surface loss from insect damage; light wear to the edges; verso of the linen backing a little waterstained; overall a working map in decent condition. A large United States Navy Hydrographic Office chart with five inset charts showing the anchorages of Walwich Bay Walvis Bay Angra Pequena Lüderitz Bay and St Helena and channels through the Abrolhos and Manoel Luiz Banks. The two sheets incorporate corrections to December 1881 and January 1882 respectively. <p>Pencil annotations show the tracks of three voyages two south-east towards the Cape of Good Hope in March-April and November-December 1883 and one in the opposite direction in April-May 1886 this is identified in the right-hand margin as part of a voyage from Hong Kong to London made by one J.B. Newcomb. A further partial track is given in purple ink dated only 'Route in October November and December'. Lighthouses are highlighted with spots of red and yellow colouring. United States Hydrographic Office unknown
1879365174Published by Order of the Association 1879. First Edition. Illustrated throughout folding map. 88; 24; 45 2; 40;40; 39 1; 50pp. 8vo. Half brown morocco spine sunned. First Edition. Illustrated throughout folding map. 88; 24; 45 2; 40;40; 39 1; 50pp. 8vo. With 10 Annual Reports. The Fifth -Tenth with seperate title-pages and pagination. Published by Order of the Association unknown
1851PACIFICO015869Longman Brown Green and Longmans London. 1851. First edition. Octavo. Two volumes in one: pp xii 352; xii 371. Four chromolithograph plates. Original blue cloth decorated in blind lettered in gilt.On the front free endpaper are two 19th century inscriptions one of which has been crossed through. Some foxing here and there. Head and tail of spine a bit scuffed. Some wear to edges. Very good. Very scarce in the intact publishers' binding. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. hardcover
18972210164<p><i>Comprising two coloured map board 66 x 99 cm folding down to 32.5 x 49.5 cm one cloth hinge broken; 14 route cards; a barometer dial 19 x 19 cm with gilt metal spinning arrow some abrading from use; eight painted white metal playing pieces in the form of ships contained in the original small box one piece not original; 16pp booklet of instructions bound in original light green printed wrappers; all contained in the original box 35 x 52 x 5 cm; the hinged lid with a large coloured lithograph title label showing the 'Normandie' leaving port at full steam some minor abrasions but overall in good condition.</i><br /></p><p><i>Jue des Paquebots</i> was something new to games when it was published in 1897 as each player moves their boats on large maps exactly replicating the routes taken by two major French shipping lines. </p><p>The game includes two large folding boards designated 'Carte A' which illustrates the Atlantic shipping lines the other 'Carte B' with the shipping lines leaving Marseilles in the direction of the Black Sea the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. Rather pointedly the instructions state that the two maps include only the French shipping lines of the Messageries Maritimes and the Cie Générale Transatlantique the United Kingdom then the leading maritime nation is neither shown on the maps nor mentioned. </p><p>The players first decide which map they are going use and then select or bid one of the Itinerary cards 8 for map A and 6 for map B. The aim of each player is to complete the journey indicated by their itinerary and then make the return voyage; the first player to complete this double crossing wins. However the number of stopovers is not equal for each different itinerary in play. In order to equalise the chances of winning the players with the fewer ports of call have to repeat their journey a second or even a third time if necessary until the number of ports visited or passed by them in these different routes equates to the number of ports of the busiest route.</p><p>The routes all follow those which the two major French shipping companies plied. These include final destinations at Yokohama Australia New Zealand Zanzibar Odessa Buenos Ayres New York and the Antilles. </p><p>Each player places a ship playing piece at port at the beginning of their route. The first player now spins the Barometer Dial which has outer and inner instructions that allows them to advance out of port when their turn come around again the arrow is again spun and the player can read the inner line of instructions and so advance 1 2 or 3 ports along their route. However there are also stops on the Barometer Dial that include Damage - where you go back to the previous port and pay a token to the bank; Heavy Fog - where you are left stranded until the next round; Collision - this allows another turn of the dial but it the result is 50/50 chance of being sunk and thrown out of the game - you can pay for another ships so all is not lost; Call for Distress - also misses a turn; Shipwreck - something like collision although you can start out again with a new ship and no fine; Rescue - also causes the player to miss a turn; lastly and somewhat topical there is Quarantine - here the player misses a turn and also has a second spin of the arrow to determine if you can go into port or not.</p><p>The lid of the box illustrates the Cie Général Transatlantique liner La Normandie that plied the North Atlantic to New York in the summer and the south Atlantic in the winter - the ship sports a US flag on the foremast and the makers initials on the aft mast. Built in 1886 it was the largest and fastest liner of the company and was originally named 'Ville de New York.' It was also lit by electricity and could carry 1000 passengers and became the model for several sister ships built to the same plan.</p><p>The maker Charles Watilliaux succeeded the games manufacturer Coqueret in 1874 and for the next 35 years became a major publisher and manufacturer of board games and toys until their acquisition by Revenaz & Tabernat. His registered initials were 'W.X.' which is slightly modified for the flag on the box lid as C.W.X.</p> Watilliaux, éditeur.
