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Arago, J[acques Etienne Victor] NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD
in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, commanded by Captain Freycinet, during the years 1817. 1818, 1819, and 1820; on a scientific expedition undertaken by order of the French government, in a Series of Letters to a Friend London Treuttel, and Wurtz, Treuttel, Jr. and Richter 1823 4to 20th century half leather, raised bands, marbled paper-covered boards xxxi, 297, (2) pages
First edition in English (Ferguson 885; Hill, page 10).Translated from French. Arago was draftsman to the expedition. Frontispiece map of the world showing route of voyage. Report to the Academy of Sciences on the General Results of the Expediton prefixed. With 26 full-page plates by the author. Table of three appendices include study of vocabularies of native people encountered, list of officers of the Uranie, and weather observations in ports visited. Bookseller's advertisement and invoice laid in. Pencil notations and bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Map and two plates folded at the bottom to fit. Light foxing and small tears to a couple of the plates. Text and illustrations clean.
Price: $ 8,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107111

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(Binnacle Press) Levy, Robert E. LOG: FIVE DAYS ABOARD THE SCHOONER "STEPHEN TABER."
Oyster Bay, NY Binnacle Press 1962 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label (ii), 18, (4) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies printed for friends of the Binnacle Press. Designed and illustrated by John DePol. The text type is Linotype Times Roman with Bulmer display on Strathmore Text and Ivory Wove Paper. With centerfold chart of the route of the schooner "Stephen Taber" 10 to 15 July, 1961.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 63708

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Kenney, Cyril Ernest THE QUADRANT AND THE QUILL.
A book written in honor of Captain Samuel Sturmy, "a tryed and trusty Sea-man," and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669 London (Metchim and Son) 1947 4to quarter cloth, paper covered boards 166 pages
Life of Samuel Sturmy, a 17th century English sailor, d. 1669. Includes information on the historical background, Sturmy's life, description of his book and library. Frontispiece. 93 black and white plates. Boards wearing at edges, bent at bottom corners. Spine and boards slightly soiled. Back board scuffed.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 106997

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(Kraus, H.P.) 171. HISTORY OF SCIENCE INCLUDING NAVIGATION ANOTHER SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARRISON D. HORBLIT.
Catalogue 171. New York H.P. Kraus n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 108 pages.
Acquisition date stamped in ink at top of first leaf.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 13988

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(Maps) Campbell, Tony EARLY MAPS.
New York Abbeville Press (1981) small folio cloth, dust jacket. 148 pages.
First edition. Shows early maps, municipal plans, and sea charts from the 13th century to the 1850s. Beautifully illustrated with 68 plates in full color. Jacket soiled with pieces missing along edges.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 44560

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(Maps) Stevenson, Edward Luther PORTOLAN CHARTS, THEIR ORIGIN AND CHARACTERISTICS, WITH A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF THOSE BELONGING TO THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
(Mansfield Centre, CT Martino Publishing Co. 2001) 8vo. cloth viii, 76 pages
A facsimile of the original edition published by the Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1911 (Besterman 1153). This scarce catalogue, which includes an introductory essay and bibliography, describes thirty-two portolan charts belonging to the Hispanic Society of America, from circa 1425 to 1650, with fifteen black-and-white reproductions. The original is quite scarce, and it is no longer in print in any edition .
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 70958

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Morley, Christopher. OUTWARD BOUND.
Grand Rapids The Private Press of Oliver A. Wallace 1924 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, label on front cover. 16 pages, with one additional leaf with plate.
Limited to 377 numbered copies. Private press reprint of a Morley article which originally appeared in the NY Evening Post in 1923. (Lee no.41). One of Morley's maritime writings: The sailing ship Tusitalia is towed from its berth to the mouth of Lower New York Bay, hoists sails, and departs over the horizon. The plate is a tipped-in print, somewhat retouched, of a photograph of the ship taken by Morley, possibly from the tugboat. There are page decorations and an illuminated initial using various nautical motifs, along with a tailpiece (all unattributed). Per colophon, book two of the "Oliver Press." Rubbed along edges and spine.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 55530

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Peters, Hubert J.M.W. THE CRONE LIBRARY. BOOKS ON THE ART OF NAVIGATION LEFT BY DR. ERNST CRONE TO THE SCHEEPVAART MUSEUM IN 1975 AND BOOKS ON THE SAME SUBJECT ACQUIRED BY THE MUSEUM PREVIOUSLY.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1989 6.5 x 9.5 inches cloth lx, 805 pages.
More than 1220 entries elaborately described; five different indexes. With portrait, 5 maps, and 54 facsimile plates. Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103284

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Peters, Hubert J.M.W. THE CRONE LIBRARY.
Books on the Art of Navigation Left by Dr. Ernst Crone to the Scheepvaart Museum in 1975 and Books on the Same Subject Acquired by the Museum Previously Amsterdam DeGraaf Publishers 1989 large 8vo. cloth lx, 805+(1) pages
Volume XXVI of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica series. A descriptive special catalogue with annotations, indexes, and an introduction to the catalogue by the author. Includes a bibliography, a short history of the art of navigation in the Netherlands, and a list of the Crone collection of nautical instruments. Contains five maps and 54 facsimile plates. Boards lightly soiled.
Price: $ 130.00 other currencies Order nr. 97646

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Stimson, A. THE MARINER'S ASTROLABE. A SURVEY OF KNOWN, SURVIVING SEA ASTROLABES.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1988 6.75 x 9.5 inches cloth, dust jacket 191 pages.
With a historical introduction and detailed descriptions of 65 mariner's astrolabes. All astrolabes described are illustrated on full pages. Richly illustrated.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103320

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(Taylor, Henry C.) Kebabian, John S. (compiler) THE HENRY C. TAYLOR COLLECTION.
New Haven Yale University Library 1971 8vo. cloth xxii, 88 pages
A catalogue with 410 entries relating to navigation. With a foreword by Lawrence C. Wroth.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 102885

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togores, Ana Ros PIEZAS DEL MES: MUSEO NAVAL DE MADRID.
(Madrid Museo Naval de Madrid 2006 8vo stiff paper wrappers 239+(1) pages
Text in Spanish. Introduction by Ana Ros Togores, exhibition coordinator, held 2003-5, A collection of scholarly essays on items in the exhibition, featuring artifacts, maps and publications from the 16th and 17th centuries. Most essays include endnotes. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Bibliography.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 108425

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Twain, Mark LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
Boston James R. Osgood and Company 1883 8vo. cloth, spine and front board gilt and black stamped 624 pages
BAL 3411. McBride 84-5. First edition, first state. Includes illustration of the author in flames, p. 441, and captioned illustration of "The St. Louis Hotel", p. 443. A second intermediate issue was released with no illustration on p. 443. A first hand account of navigating the Mississippi by riverboat, focusing on the changes since the end of the Civil War. Written concurrently with Huckleberry Finn with similar themes. Sold by subscription only. Laid in is a first printing of "The Suppressed Chapter of Life on the Mississippi," printed as a limited, numbered edition of 250, circa 1913. This chapter was omitted by the publisher because of its critique of racial, political and social practices in the South after Reconstruction, which would have "a detrimental effect upon the Southern buyer" (BAL 3519). It was nonetheless printed as a leaflet. See also Caroline Ticknor, "Mark Twain's Missing Chapter," in The Bookman, May 1914.
Also laid in is an unsigned letter to Arthur Rushmore, then at Harper & Brothers in New York, dated April 29, 1927 from Bellemoor (Wilmington), Delaware. The unknown writer apparently illustrated a later edition of Twain and expresses gratitude to the addressee and Mr. (Frank) Schoonover for their confidence in him.
Front board and spine stamped in black and gilt. Frontispiece. Black and white illustrations throughout. Table of contents, list of illustrations, and four appendices
Scuffed at edges, corners slightly bumped. The volume has been recased with the inner hinges repaired. Some pages in appendix folded along fore-edge.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 110112

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Wroth, Lawrence C. THE WAY OF A SHIP: AN ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE OF NAVIGATION SCIENCE ALONG WITH SOME AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ART OF NAVIGATION 1519-1802.
Foreword by John B. Hattendorf Providence The John Carter Brown Library 2011 6.25 x 10 inches hardcover 204 pages
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its original publication, the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University has issued a new edition of Lawrence C. Wroth's Way of a Ship (1937), the foundational bibliographic essay on the literature of navigation science, along with a reprint of Some American Contributions to the Art of Navigation, 1519-1802 (1947). A prolific writer, well known for his graceful style and extensive historical knowledge, Wroth served as Director and Librarian of the JCB from 1924 to 1957.

The Way of a Ship has been celebrated for its graceful brevity in dealing with the complex history of nautical science. Its origin in an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library is evident in the arrangement of the chapters, each of which provides a short exposition on topics such as "The Search for an Infallible Method of Determining Longitude," "Prime Meridians of Earlier Days," "Charts of the Ancient World," and "The Mariners Instruments."

Several more recent studies of early modern maritime history, science, and literature owe a great debt to the authority of Way of a Ship, but Wroth's essay has also served as the basis for the development of some of the most significant collections of books on the history and science of navigation, including the Henry C. Taylor Collection, now at the Beinecke Library at Yale.

For many years, Lawrence Wroth worked on a revision to Way of a Ship that never made it to publication. Professor John B. Hattendorf, the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, has pieced together Wroth's manuscript notes and corrections to the original text to create this edition. To the revised essay, Hattendorf has added an index, a list of the books on navigation that are cited in the text, and a new Foreword. New reproductions of illustrations and title pages - from the Collection of the John Carter Brown Library -- are distributed throughout the volume, which was designed by Mark Argetsinger (Rochester, NY). Only one thousand copies were printed in the US by Capital Offset (Concord, NH). It is handsomely bound in navy blue cloth with gold stamping.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 108376

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