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1. Anon. THE LIFE AND DANGEROUS 4. Barton, William. A DISSERTA- VOYAGES OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. TION ON THE FREEDOM OF Lon. n.d. b/w frontispiece. 12mo. 191, (1 NAVIGATION AND MARITIME publisher’s ads) pp. Rare work on Drake COMMERCE. Phila. 1802. 339, and his adventures, including his circum- xlv, (3) pp. One of the earliest navigation and defeat of the Armada. works by an American on the legal Worldcat shows only one library holding a and philosophical basis of interna- copy of this edition. Not in BMM Catalog, tional commerce. Sabin 3853. S&S Sabin, or JCB. 1845. Scarce in the trade. Rebound Frontispiece engraving in new calf over marbled boards. laid down. $1750 $500

2. Anon. THE SUR- 5. Baugean, (Jean Jerome). PRISING ADVEN- RECUEIL DE PETIT MARINES... TURES AND SUF- Paris. 1817. b/w engraved plates. FERINGS OF JOHN Oblong 4to. 84 (of 120) plates with RHODES, A SEA- text interleaved. High quality MAN OF WORKINGTON. Newark. (NJ). engravings of merchant and naval 1799. 12mo. 268 pp. Rhodes was captured by craft of Europe, England and America. Polak 482. Indians while cutting wood on shore, then Assemblages of plates vary. This one lacks plates 32, 34, 59- endured a series of harrowing adventures in 90, 109 and 110. Some foxing throughout. $2500 captivity. This work is suspected to be fiction. Evans 36228. Sabin 70764. Not in Wright or Howes. $750

3. Barrington, Hon. Daines. THE POSSIBILITY OF APPROACHING THE NORTH POLE ASSERTED. Lon. 1818. b/w folding map. xxiv, 258, (4 pp. publisher’s catalog). pp. Second edition, expanded from the 1775 first, with additional informa- tion from whalemen and other early voyagers to the north. Arctic Bib. 1092. $500 6. (Bellegarde, Jean Baptiste Morvan 8. Bowditch, Nathaniel. THE plement to Captain Cook... The purpose of the expedition was to de) “Monsr. Du Perier.” A GENERAL NEW AMERICAN PRACTI- establish a trade in furs in North America but the itinerary also HISTORY OF ALL VOYAGES AND CAL NAVIGATOR. NY. 1864. included... Sandwich Islands (three times)... Prince William TRAVELS THROUGHOUT THE b/w fldg. chart, plates. (ii), 8, Sound, Macao, Canton....” - Hill 118. Howes D 365. Forbes 161. OLD AND NEW WORLD... Lon. xix, 289, 460 pp. Campbell Streeter VI, 3484. A very nice copy. $4500 1708. b/w engraved plates. (8), 364, says, “At the time of compiling (8) pp. “First English edition of this this bibliography, there is only 14. Ellis, William. POLYNESIAN edition, devoted entirely to the early one known copy of this thirty- RESEARCHES, DURING A RES- voyages of the Spaniards in the third edition.” - Campbell, 37. IDENCE OF NEARLY SIX Americas. Hill 108. Howes B 327. Full calf binding with gilt YEARS IN THE SOUTH SEA Sabin 4508. $1250 leather name plate of its owner ISLANDS. Lon. 1830. b/w folding - Capt. S.V. Bennis - on front map, ills. in text, engraved plates. 2 cover. $500 vol. xvi, 536; vii, 576 pp. Ellis served in the Pacific for the London Missionary Society from 1817 - 9. Brannan, John. (editor) 11. Clark, George Edward. SEVEN YEARS OF A SAILOR’S 1825. This work relates mainly to 7. Bligh, William. A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY ON OFFICIAL LETTERS OF LIFE. Bos. (1867) b/w plates. 358 pp. “How a merchant sailor Tahiti, with visits to Rio, New BOARD HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP BOUNTY... Lon. 1790. b/w THE MILITARY AND joined the Union blockade.”- Smith III, 502. With a photograph South Wales and New Zealand. Hill folding maps and plan. 4to, iv, 88 pp. First edition of the greatest NAVAL OFFICERS… 1812, of the author tipped onto the front pastedown, so we get to see 550. O’Reilly & Reitman 7556. open-boat survival narrative in the literature of the sea. Hill 132. 13, 14, & 15. Wash. 1823. b/w what Yankee Ned Clark looked like. $200 $350 O’Reilly-Reitman 543. Mackaness p. 128. There are other copies plates, ms. letters. 510 pp. A available online, but they have imperfections of one sort or anoth- scarce early documentary 12. Coxe, William. ACCOUNT OF er, including serious flaws in their prices. This is a very clean, source. Extra-illustrated with THE RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES attractive copy, reasonably priced. $15000 an engraved portrait of Lewis BETWEEN ASIA AND AMERI- Cass, a document signed by CA... Lon. 1780. b/w folding charts, War of 1812 hero Charles plate. 4to. xxii, 344 (16) pp. First Morris, and a second document edition. “Coxe recounts the princi- signed by Samuel Smith, major pal Russian discoveries and explo- general and the commander of rations made in northwestern the successful defenses of America… and pertinent observa- Baltimore. Howes B-722. Sabin 7411. Neeser 8002. Smith II 602. tions on the fur trade between the $850 Russians and the Chinese.” - Hill 391. Wickersham, 5882, Lada 10. CHART OF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA FROM SAN Moklarsi 29. NMM Cat. 46. $2000 BLAS TO SAN FRANCISCO... 1851. Blueback chart measuring 3 58 x 26 /4 inches. It features eight recognition views and insets of 13. Dixon, George. A VOYAGE San Francisco (two different views), Monterey, Guaymas, ROUND THE WORLD; BUT Magdalen Bay, and Mazatlan. Some courses are plotted in pencil MORE PARTICULARLY TO THE and ink off the coast of San Francisco. Two inch hole in the lower NORTH-WEST COAST OF right hand corner of the chart, not affecting any part of the image AMERICA... Lon. 1789. b/w plates, folding charts. 4to. xxix, A scarce and historically important chart. $2000 360, 47 pp. First edition. “Dixon’s voyage is important as a sup-

go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations 15. “Fanny Foley.” (pseudonym). ROMANCE OF THE OCEAN: A NARRA- TIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF THE WILD- FIRE TO CALIFORNIA… Phila. 1850. 12mo. (4), xii-218 (2 adverts) pp. Fictional account of a voyage from New York to Monterey in 1849. Very much of its time and place, with interesting renderings of shipboard social life. Wright I, 965. $250

turing Roaring Twenties characters aboard an ocean liner. Scarce Scarce Account and wonderful, in color illustrated boards with matching dust 16. Fisher, Alexander. (and) Laing, John. A JOURNAL OF A jacket, chipped at edges. Housed in clamshell box that duplicates VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY the cover illustration. $300 TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS, (bound with) AN ture.” Drawings in text and twen- 24. Lescallier, (Daniel).TRAITE ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE 18. Fletcher, Rev. R. J. A THRILLING ACCOUNT OF THE ty-one double page engraved PRATIQUE DE GREEMENT TO SPITZBERGEN… LOSS AT SEA OF THE SCHOONER “ENIGMA” OCTOBER, plates. McDonald 236. Scott 77. DES VAISSEAUX ET AUTRES WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 1865. n.p.. 1895. Unpaginated. (About 25 leaves, printed on recto Worldcat locates only seven BATIMENS DE MER... Paris. THE WHALE FISHERY. only.) Rare privately printed account of a Bath, Maine schooner copies, none in American libraries. 1791. b/w engraved plates, some Lon. (and) . 1821 overturned in rough seas. Captain and crew were able to cut their $8500 folding. Two vols. in one. 4to. xxiv, (and) 1815. b/w maps, (one way free. After floating at sea for the better part of a week they 488; (4), 83, (xxxiv plates) 23 pp. folding) wood engraved ills were rescued by a passing brig. Worldcat shows no holdings for Scarce first edition of an important in text. xi, 320 pp. (and) 171, this title. Not in Huntress. $250 work on rigging. The plates are (2) pp. First edition of very handsomely engraved, and Fisher’s account bound with 19. Forster, John Reinhold. HISTORY OF THE VOYAGES AND include details of blocks, cleats, the genuinely scarce first edi- DISCOVERIES MADE IN THE NORTH… Lon. 1786. b/w fold- knots, splices, lashings, standing tion of Laing’s book. Laing ing charts. 4to. (3), xvi, 489, (16), (2 adverts) pp. First edition in and running rigging, sails, anchors, served as surgeon aboard the English with corrections from the German text. Sabin calls it a and vessels, from men-of-war to English whaler Resolution. “learned account of the various expeditions for the discovering small craft. JCB Maritime History, 427. His accounts of whaling are the North-West and North-East Passages.” - 21. Gray, John Edward. CATA- Polak 5883. Scott 429. $1500 excellent. Arctic Bib 9582. Sabin 25138. Howes F-269. Holmes 59. Arctic LOGUE OF SEALS AND Jenkins p. 117. Allen 546. Bib. 5161. $3500 WHALES IN THE BRITISH 25. Lindsay, Henry. (Publisher.) $2000 MUSEUM. Lon. 1866. b/w ills. WHALEMEN’S SHIPPING LIST, in text. vii, 402 pp. Also lists AND MERCHANTS’ TRANSCRIPT. 17. Flaherty, Robert. specimens in other collections. VOL I, NO. 3 - 52. New Bedford. PORTFOLIO OF SIX This is the second edition. 1843. 8vo. 15-596 pp. With whaling COPPER ENGRAVED Unusually bound in half calf returns by port, news of vessels, etc. PHOTOGRAPHIC over snakeskin. A very good copy of a scarce book. Not in “Presents a valuable IMAGES OF INUIT PEO- Jenkins. $500 summary of the busi- PLE. Folio. (1920s) Six ness aspects of the plates plus letterpress title industry.” Hohman, sheet. “Chosen from a col- “American lection of eighteen... made 22. Hall, John E. (translator). AN Whaleman”. $400 during a series of five expe- ESSAY ON MARITIME LOANS... ditions covering a period of Balt. 1811. xvi-313, (1) pp. Scarce eleven years.” Presumably American work on maritime law American Ship Building Rarity they were issued at the translated from the French authority 26. M’Kay, L. (Lauchlan McKay) THE PRACTI- same time as, or somewhat Emerigon, with citations from other CAL SHIP-BUILDER. NY. 1839. b/w folding later than Flaherty’s sources. $500 plates. Oblong 4to. x-107 pp. plus plates. This is “Nanook.” All the images 20. Furtenbach, Joseph. ARCHITECTURA one of the legendary rarities in the literature of are in excellent condition. NAVALIS... Ulm. 1629. b/w double page 23. Herford, Oliver. SEA LEGS. marine architecture, being the first American $2000 engraved plates. Folio. (16), 134 pp. First edition Phila. (1931) Color plates. Oblong treatise on shipbuilding, and the most influential of a rare and beautiful book which, as McDonald 12mo. Unpaginated (about 50 pp.) text until Griffiths published his works on clipper says, is “a very early account of naval architec- Satirical rhyming alphabet book fea- ships in the 1850s. Bound in original mottled

go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations calf, spine laid down, with English and Dutch, and contained specific information about the had glamour and the logs got saved. Fishing was blue collar, and Bailey. The first whaling journal documents a voyage aboard the original label. Housed in a vessel, its captain, home port, destination, etc. They were signed most early records were destroyed. $750 “Sloop Harlikin from New York” bound for “Davises Strates a modern slipcase with a by a notary who attested to the accuracy of the information, and Wailing.” June 17, 1768 - Sept. 23, 1768. It ends “att Nantuckit copy of the 1940 reprint. by the President of the United States at the time, and his Secretary Crewman Goes Mad, Captain Dies Bar.” It is followed immediately by “a journal of our intended Worldcat shows only four of State, with the national seal affixed as a guarantee of authen- 32. Manuscript LOG OF THE WHALING BARK JOHN CARV- Voige on Bord of the good Schooner Leviathen Jonathan Worth libraries holding copies. ticity. $1500 ER. MAY 31 1875 - MAY 16, 1879. Folio, approximately 200 pp. Master… from Brook Haven [Long Island, NY] to Davises Not in Scott. Brewington, manuscript entries. Complete Strates a Waleing.” The voyage began May 8, 1768 and ended p. 95, who calls it “rare.” Contemporary Account of the log of a voyage to the Pacific November 4, 1768. Unlike the prior voyage, this one was very $10000 Charge of the Light Brigade and New Zealand. It has no successful. The entry for September 13 gives what I believe to be 30. Manuscript. JOURNAL KEPT whaling stamps, however two the first description of a “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” aboard an 27. Macdonald, Rev. D. NEW HEBRIDES LINGUISTICS. BY GEORGE BARNES ABOARD things set it apart. Midway American whaler. Folio in format, unpaginated and covered in a INTRODUCTORY. THREE NEW HEBRIDES LANGUAGES HMS TERRIBLE, OFF SEV- through the voyage, a green- limp sailcloth binding. It contains about two hundred pages of (EFATESE, EROMANGAN, SANTO). Melbourne. 1889. 134 ASTOPOL BETWEEN JULY 17TH hand recruit named Joseph manuscript entries documenting Nicholas Bailey’s career at sea pp. “Printed at the expense of the AND DECEMBER 6TH, 1854. Fry went crazy, and the log and subsequent activities ashore. Forty-eight of these pages com- Trustees of the Melbourne Public 12mo. 2 vols. 202 pp manuscript follows his descent in dispas- prise the complete journals of two whaling voyages. Details on Library.” A basic grammar and entries. About 15,000 words. HMS sionate, grotesque, detail. This request. $95,000 vocabulary of the three languages. Terrible was a was a bad voyage for captains. Ferguson 11925. A fine copy. $300 wooden paddle The first Captain, Aaron 34. Meares, John. VOYAGES MADE IN THE YEARS 1788 frigate of 3189 Dean, died of a heart attack. AND 1789, FROM CHINA 28. Machiavelli, Niccolo. THE tons, mounting 19 All three of his replacements TO THE NORTH COAST ART OF WAR. IN SEVEN guns. George got sick and were sent ashore, OF AMERICA. Lon. 1790. BOOKS. (with) HINTS RELA- Barnes received and all of this is recorded in Twenty-eight b/w engraved TIVE TO TORPEDO WARFARE. his appointment the log - including picking up plates and maps. 4to. vii, BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE aboard her on Capt. Dean’s body at Talcahuano for shipment home, three years (12), xcv, (1), 372 (108) pp STATE OF NEW YORK. Albany, July 17, 1854. On after his death. This log comes with original shipping papers, First edition of “one of the NY. 1815. b/w folding plans, ills. the 25th of signed by each of the crew, with position aboard and lay speci- early and fundamental books (1-3), 4-349 pp. First American October he fied, as well as a manuscript contract, signed by each crewman, on the Northwest coast of printing of Machiavelli bound with records his con- agreeing to the terms of the voyage. These included charges for America... In addition to his a crib of Fulton’s theories, dissemi- temporary the medicine chest, insurance, interest on advances, guarantee of voyages from China to 1 nated “for the public good” in account of the cargo and guarantee of pay (an astonishing 2 /2 %). Though such America in 1788 and 1789, “times like the present” - (i.e., the ongoing War of 1812). Rink, infamous Charge of the Light Brigade. Barnes’s narrative contin- agreements were regularly struck with crews, particularly in later which form the principal 2144 says the work is “generally attributed to Robert Fulton.” ues at an incredible level of detail - including an eyewitness whaling days, documentation is scarce. $7500 part of this work, Captain $500 account of the Battle of Inkerman - for a total of 200 pages. A Meares also describes his truly remarkable account. $5000 earlier voyage to the northwest coast from Bengal.” Lada- 29. Manuscript. FOUR LANGUAGE “SEA LETTER” - (SHIP’S Rare Early Whaling Logs Mokarski 46. Hill 1126. See also Howes, M469, Forbes 201 (one PASSPORT) FOR CAPTAIN EDMUND GARDNER, WHALE- 31. Manuscript. JOURNAL OF THE FISHING SCHOONER of Meares’ ships went to Hawaii), Streeter 3491. This copy has SHIP BALAENA, NEW BEDFORD, 1821. Folio sheet, approx- OCEAN FROM PROVINCETOWN TO THE GRAND BANKS, the folding plate of the Philippines not present in all copies. 1 1 imately 20 /2 x 16 /2 inches. Printed form completed in manu- MAY 15 - SEPT. 29, 1867. Square 8vo. Unpaginated. $9500 script. These “sea letters” were printed in French, Spanish, Approximately 50 pp. manuscript entries. The fishing schooner Ocean departed Provincetown May 15 and had an eight day pas- Manning a Frigate sage to the banks, where Roderick McIntosh kept a detailed jour- 35. Missiessy, Edouard nal of their activities. It is one of the ironies of the trade that com- Burges. INSTALLATION mercial fishing logs are far scarcer than whaling logs. Whaling DES VAISSEAUX. Paris. An VI. (1798) b/w folding plates. 4to. xii, 403, (1) pp. Complete specifications and instructions for building, equipping and sailing a 74 gun frigate, written at the direction of the Minister of the Marine to get the French Navy up to snuff. Interestingly it also contains more than 200 33. Manuscript LOGS OF THE WHALE SHIPS HARLEQUIN pages of highly specific man- AND LEVIATHAN, BROOKHAVEN, NY TO DAVIS STRAIT, ning instructions, - quarter and 1768 AND 1769. Folio, unpaginated. About 200 pp. manuscript station bills - for sailing and entries. This log was kept by a New York man named Nicholas fighting a vessel of this class. Polak 1322. Scott 456. $2500

go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations 36. Moore, John Hamilton. THE Antarctic Mariner’s Song. Twenty-five years after he published 43. Raleigh, Walter. (Thomas Birch, American commerce on a surer basis.” Cordier 2113. Taylor, NEW PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR; Thulia, Palmer wrote a second version of his poem about editor.) THE WORKS OF SIR “Books on China in the Essex Institute” p. 239. Not in Lust. $450 BEING AN EPITOME OF NAVI- Antarctica, again with handsome engraved illustrations and WALTER RALEGH... Lon. 1751. GATION... THE FIRST AMERI- descriptive notes. This title is even scarcer than the first. Rosove b/w frontispieces. 2 vol. cxx, 280, Buccaneering Classic CAN FROM THE THIRTEENTH states, “Antarctic Mariner’s Song is a far scarcer book than (2); 400 pp. In the 130-odd years 47. Rogers, Woodes. A CRUISING VOYAGE ROUND THE ENGLISH EDITION... REVISED Thulia. Both editions were beautifully bound, but the bindings that elapsed between Raleigh’s exe- WORLD... Lon. 1718. b/w folding AND CORRECTED BY A SKILL- and paper have stood the test of time poorly; the majority of cution and this publication, the first maps. xix, 428, 57, (7) pp. “This work FUL MATHEMATICIAN AND extant copies are worn or soiled, and the paper is usually foxed, collection of his works, Raleigh’s may be considered a buccaneering clas- NAVIGATOR. Newburyport. 1800. often severely.” (See Spence 891, Rosove 246.B1a.) This copy reputation had risen considerably. sic. With William Dampier as pilot, b/w plates. xii-282, (224), (507)-570 has some foxing, and the covers show marks of old water stain- This edition features a laudatory Captain Woodes Rogers’ privateering (2) pp. This is actually the second ing. There are old water stains around the edges of some pages. biography, “Orders to Commanders expedition set sail from Bristol. After edition of the first American publi- However the gold cover design is still fresh and the gilding on the of the Fleet” from his second sailing down the coast of Brazil and cation of Moore’s work, with spine, while sunned, is intact. The two items together comprise a Eldorado expedition, discourses on rounding Cape Horn, she made for the Bowditch’s corrections and addi- genuine Antarctic rarity. Both volumes $6000 the wars with Spain and the Netherlands, “A Discourse of the deserted island of Juan Fernandez... tions - he is the “Skillful Invention of Ships, Compass, Anchors, &c.” “Observations There Rogers rescued the celebrated Mathematician” referred to on the title page. According to 40. Pennant, Thomas. ARC- Concerning the ,” “Voyage for the Discovery of Alexander Selkirk... The expedition Campbell this edition is rarer than the 1802 edition which, TIC ZOOLOGY. Lon. 1784, Guiana” and two other essays concerning that voyage, as well as then cruised the coast of Peru, taking because it carries Bowditch’s name, brings higher prices among 1785. b/w engraved plates, poems, letters and essays on other subjects. $750 various prizes, reached California, and collectors. See Campbell 2. $1250 one folding. 2 vols. 4to. con- crossed the Pacific to Asia.” - Hill 1479. tinuously paginated. (8), cc, 44. Ralfe, James. THE $3500 37. Morrell, Capt. Benjamin. A (5), 185-586, (13) pp. These NAVAL CHRONOLOGY OF NARRATIVE OF FOUR VOY- are first editions the first two GREAT BRITAIN... Lon. 48. Ross, John. NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN AGES, TO THE SOUTH SEA, volumes, which were pub- 1820. Color plates. 3 vols. x, SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE... (and) APPENDIX NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC lished together, without the 288; 284; 318 (2) pp. “An his- TO THE NARRATIVE... Lon. OCEAN, CHINESE SEA, “Supplement,” which was torical account of naval and 1835. Color and b/w plates, charts, ETHIOPIC AND SOUTHERN published separately two maritime events, from... fldg map. 4to. 2 vols. xxxiii, (1), ATLANTIC OCEAN, INDIAN years later. $2000 1803... to ... 1816.” Includes a 740; xii, 120, cixiv, cii pp. The AND ANTARCTIC OCEAN... NY. few American War of 1812 Appendix, though it styles itself as 1853. b/w frontis. xxvii-492, (4 illustrations, but concentrates such, was published and issued pages publisher’s ads) pp. Morrell primarily on European action, separately from Ross’ narrative, was a resourceful sealer who pio- including Trafalgar. and it is scarcer than that work. It neered many South Seas routes. “His No Copies Recorded Illustrated by 60 colored concerns the Eskimos and natural narrative is of great interest and is 41. Periodical. BAHAMAS’ aquatint plates. 3 vols. $5000 history of the areas Ross explored, one of the earliest first-hand records ALMANAC AND REGISTER and features twelve color and of many South Sea islands... this work is the source from which FOR THE YEAR 1848... Nassau. eight b/w plates of natives and ani- Edgar Allen Poe derived his famous Narrative of Arthur Gordon n.d. 12mo. (4)-63, xvii, 5-16,(8) 45. Reaumur, (Rene-Antione mals. Also included are biographi- Pym.” - Hill 1186. Judd 130. Jenkins p. 129. Howes M-818. $500 pp. A rare almanac “printed by Ferchault de). FABRIQUE DES cal sketches of expedition mem- authority at the office of the Nassau ANCRES. Paris. 1761. b/w plates. bers. Abbey 636. Arctic Bib. 38. O’Reilly, Bernard. GREENLAND, THE ADJACENT SEAS, Guardian” with a few manuscript Folio. 54 pp. First edition of a work 14866. Hill 1490. Two vols. $1500 AND THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE TO THE PACIFIC entries pertaining to the brig Sarah on ship anchors by a celebrated OCEAN... Folding b/w charts. NY. 1818. vi, 251 pp. Written Wood on “memoranda” pages. French man of science, with contri- 49. Schefferi, Joannis. ARGENTORATENSIS, DE MILITIA from the author’s experience on an English whaler. There are sec- Individual sections with all sorts of butions by the equally well known NAVALI VETERUM. LIBRI QUATUOR AD HISTORIAM tions on whales and whaling in the Arctic, and three engraved information pertaining to the author and marine architect M. GRAECAM LATINAMQUE UTILES. Upsala. 1654. b/w wood folding maps. Arctic Bib. 12853. $650 Bahamas. Nine pages Duhamel. $500 and copper engraved plates, some folding. Ills. in text. Small 4to. are even devoted to gardening in the islands. There (4), 348 pp. Treatise on Greek and Roman warships by this 39. Palmer, James Croxall. THU- are also entries pertaining to the whaling station at 46. Roberts, Edmund. EMBASSY Swedish humanist and polymath. Jansson, the publisher, was a LIA: A TALE OF THE ANTARC- Turks Islands. Worldcat shows three libraries holding TO THE EASTERN Dutch cartographer best known for his work on the Hondius TIC. (and) ANTARCTIC copies of an almanac with a similar title from the COURTS OF atlas. Scott 98. $850 MARINER’S SONG. NY. 1843, 1850s. $1250 COCHIN-CHINA, SIAM, AND MUSCAT… 1868. b/w frontis, plates, vignettes. DURING THE YEARS 1832-3-4. NY. 1837. 423 50. (Sir Walter Raleigh). REMAINS OF SIR WALTER 72 (and) (2), 92, (2) pp. One of the 42. Radford, W. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF pp. In 1832, when the U.S. sent the frigate RALEIGH. Lon. 1702. b/w frontispiece. 12mo. (6), 342, (4 curiosities produced by the Wilkes THE ARK... Lon. 1840 xi, 90 pp. Not as looney a Potomac out to destroy Quallah Batoo and avenge adverts.) pp. Including “Sir Walter Raleigh’s observations Expedition, Thulia is, according to book as the title might indicate. The author makes the the murder of the crew of a Salem merchant vessel, touching trade and commerce with the Hollander and other Rosove, “the earliest published interesting point that the Great Western has exactly the Peacock was sent as backup. Her secondary nations, proving that our sea and land commodities inrich Antarctic poetry.” He notes that the the same proportions as the biblical description of the mission was “to convey to the courts of Cochin- and strengthen other countreys against our own.” From the book is “scarce.” Rosove 246. Ark in Genesis. Credible enough to be listed in Scott. China, Siam and Muscat, a mission charged to Macclesfield library, with their bookplate and blind stamp. Haskell 186. Spence 890. (with) #644. $300 effect, if practicable, treaties... which would place VG $750

go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations go to www.tenpound.com for detailed descriptions and more illustrations 53. Sutherland, William. THE taken from the Nuestra Signora del Buono Carmella and an inter- THE CASE OF BYNG. Lon. 1756. 76 (and) 70 pp. SHIP-BUILDER’S ASSIS- esting list of subscribers’ names.” - Hill 1693. $1500 On his way to relieve the garrison on Minorca during the Seven TANT... Lon. 1755. b/w plates, Years’ War, Byng was surprised by the French fleet. After an many folding. viii, 150 pp. First 56. (Troughton, Thomas.) BARBARIAN CRUELTY; OR AND indecisive engagement with the French he retreated without being published in 1711, this was the ACCURATE AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF THE SUF- able to resupply the garrison. Byng thought he was doing what he first comprehensive description FERINGS... OF THE BRITISH CAP- needed to protect his ships, but public and official opinion were of English ship building, and an TIVES, BELONGING TO THE against him. He was found guilty of dereliction of his duties. By important work in all early edi- INSPECTOR ... (with) A the law of the day, this was a capital crime, and he was executed, tions, with sections on cutting SUPPLEMENT TO BARBARIAN despite appeals for clemency from people in power. Both pam- sails, cordage tables, rigging, CRUELTY. Lon. 1751. b/w portrait, phlets $750 design and building methods, as folding plates. 12mo. 216, 56 pp. well as a glossary, and exten- “Third edition” of this wonderful title, 59. Various authors. FOUR PAMPHLETS PERTAINING TO sive tables for rigging a 600 ton published the same year as, and identi- THE KEPPLE - PALLISER AFFAIR. These pamphlets mark a vessel. Scott p. 75. McDonald cal to, the first. The English privateer critical moment in the history of the Royal Navy. At the First 276 A. Adams & Waters 3499 Inspector was wrecked off the coast of , 1778, the Navy fared poorly against the French $2000 Morocco, and ninety-six sailors either and Palliser was accused of not obeying Keppel’s orders. died in the wreck or were murdered by Keppel’s and Palliser’s factions quarreled and the quarrel result- 54. (Thomas, Eleventh Earl of Dundonald) THE TRIAL OF the Moors. The remaining eighty-seven ed in the resignation of Keppel, and severe morale problems in LORD COCHRANE AND OTHERS FOR A CONSPIRACY sailors could not be freed by the British the Navy —THE SPEECH OF SIR HUGH PALLISER IN A item #49 (and) A LETTER TO LORD ELLENBOROUGH FROM LORD consul and were enslaved. This is a COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS... 1780. 34 pp. COCHRANE. Lon. (n.d. (1814) and 1815. Two vols. 48; 138, scarce account, not in Huntress. $450 Contemporary marbled wrappers.—THE DEFENSE OF... SIR The Book That Launched a Thousand Boats (38) pp. Essentially a political trial of the radical Cochrane by the HUGH PALLISER. Lon. Tories. The charges centered around a stock market scam in Rare Whaling Plates 1779. 71 pp.—THE 51. Slocum, Joshua SAILING ALONE AROUND THE which Cochrane was wrongly implicated. Both the “Trial” and 57. (Van der Laan, Adriaan, Siewert van der Meulen), Petrus DEFENSE OF ADMIRAL WORLD. NY. 1900. b/w ills. xvi, 294 pp. First edition of “Letter” have been removed from larger volumes. The “Trial” is Schenk GROOTE VISSERY. Amsterdam. n.d, Circa 1710. b/w KEPPEL. Lon. 1779. 36 pp. Slocum’s great book, with the original illustrations by Fogarty a complete report of the proceedings up to the guilty verdict, but copper engravings. Oblong folio. Engraved title and thirty-two Removed from larger vol- and Varian. In his yachting bibliography, Ernest Toy says, “The does not include the 24 page “Supplement.” It also lacks the por- copper engravings. The first sixteen plates represent all phases of ume. Pro - Keppel.—A classic account of a small trait. The “Letter” is a detailed recounting of Cochrane’s defense. the herring fishery, with captions in Dutch and English. The sec- VINDICATION OF THE boat voyage, which has It is a second edition. Two vols. $500 ond sixteen plates depict the Dutch Arctic whale fishery, includ- LORDS OF ADMIRALTY, been compared favorably to ing hunting walruses and polar bears. Captions in Dutch, ON THEIR CONDUCT Thoreau’s Walden.” Author German and English. Plate #10 in the Herring series has been TOWARDS ADMIRAL Dean King calls it “The torn and has an old repair, otherwise the plates are in very good KEPPEL. Lon. 1779. 44 pp. book that launched a thou- condition, bound in contemporary marbled wrappers. $6500 Removed. Pro Palliser. All sand boats.” Toy. 462. are in VG condition. The lot Morris & Howland p. 126. $800 This is a beautiful copy of Slocum’s masterpiece, 60. Williams, John. A NARRATIVE OF MISSIONARY ENTER- inscribed by him on board PRISES IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS... Lon. 1837. Color the Spray, Marblehead, frontis, fldg. map, b/w July 30, 1905. $1750 plates and ills. xviii, 590 pp. “Williams was the ablest missionary to the Polynesian people, and his book was the 52. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, (Rockwell most often printed and Kent, Stephen Leacock). UNSOLVED 55. Thomas, Pascoe. A TRUE AND most widely read of all MYSTERIES OF THE ARCTIC. NY. IMPARTIAL JOURNAL OF A the contemporary 1938. b/w frontispiece, charts. xi, (3), VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, accounts.” Hill 1874. 381 pp. This is the limited edition, AND ROUND THE GLOBE IN This first edition is also 115 # /200 copies, specially printed for the H.M. SHIP CENTURION UNDER notable for its color Explorer’s Club. Signed by Steffanson THE COMMAND OF GEORGE frontispiece by George beneath the limitation statement, by ANSON. Lon. 1745. (14), 347, 39 Baxter. $450 Kent on his frontispiece illustration, pp. “Pascoe Thomas kept a full and and by Leacock at the end of his intro- faithful daily journal of the incidents 58. Various Authors. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE: CON- duction. Beneath Steffanson’s signature is a seven line inscription of this important four-year circum- TAINING THE GENUINE ENTIRE LETTER OF ADMIRAL from “Stef” to “Joe” - Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, noted anthropolo- navigation. Included are an appendix BYNG... (and) FURTHER PARTICULARS IN RELATION TO gist and Steffanson’s classmate. $850 giving an account of the treasure

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