Newport News Ships: Their History in Two World Wars
Newport News: The Mariners Museum, 1954. Hardcover. xiv, 355pp+ index. Very good hardback in a rubbed and darkened jacket that has some minor loss at the extremities. More
Nautical
Barcat Skipper: Tales of a Tangier Island Waterman
Centreville: Tidewater Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. 155pp. Very good hardback in a tanned jacket that is sunned on the spine and has a closed tear to the top of the front panel. More
Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture: Being the Article "Ship Building" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seventh Edition
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1846. Hardcover. xvi, 90pp+ 15 plates. Boards scuffed with some minor loss of cloth at the extremities and tars to rear joint; foxed throughout with a few tiny tears to page edges, else a good copy in publisher's green cloth. Contemporary owner's stamp on title..... More
Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman
North Quincy: Christopher Publishing House, 1972. Hardcover. 405pp. Some offsetting to endpapers, else a very good hardback in a tanned jacket that has a dampstain to the edge of the front and a small spot of loss at the bottom. More
Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler
NY: Published For the Author, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 317pp. Pages darkened, old bookseller catalog description affixed to front free endpaper, else a very good copy in publisher's green cloth. More
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
NY: W.W. Norton, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
Fleet Battle and Blockade: The French Revolutionary War 1793-1797
London: Chatham Publishing, 1996. Hardcover. 189pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
Ultimate Voyage: A Book of Five Mariners
Boston: Shambhala, 1998. Hardcover. First edition. 314pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
Alone: The Observer Book of the Singlehanded Transatlantic Race
London: Angus and Robertson, 1977. Hardcover. 208pp+ index. Small ink name on front pastedown, else a very good hardback in a tanned and edgeworn jacket. More
Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain
NY: Carroll and Graf, 2000. Hardcover. First American edition. 324pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
The Frigates: An Account of the Lighter Warships of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
London: Leo Cooper, 1994. Hardcover. xi, 170pp+ index. Very good hardback in a jacket that has a closed tear to the top of the front panel. More
Narratives of Shipwrecks and Disasters
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1974. Hardcover. xxxii, 249pp. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a very good hardback in a rubbed jacket that has a closed tear to the top of the front panel. More
Heart of Oak: A Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Era
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Hardcover. xi, 300pp+ index. Pages slightly tanned, else a very good hardback in a price clipped jacket that has a few small closed tears. More
Full Fathom Five: Wrecks of the Spanish Armada
NY: Viking Press, 1975. Hardcover. 283pp+ index. Remainder dot to bottom edge, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
The Tattooed Man
NY: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1958. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 90pp. Very good hardback in lightly rubbed jacket that is a bit sunned on the spine. More
Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
Newport News: The Mariners' Museum, 1953. Hardcover. xii, 470pp+ index. Foxing to prelims, else a very good hardback in a darkened and rubbed jacket that is sunned on the spine and has a small closed tears and nicks. Inscribed and signed by Middleton on the front free endpaper. More
Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. #610 of 1500cc signed by the illustrator Lima De Freitas. Light foxing to page edges, spine tanned, else very good. Slipcae a bit rubbed, paperlabel darkened, else very good. More
Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, to Which Are Added Observations on the Scenery, Manners and Customs, and Missionary Stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands
Rutland: Charles Tuttle, 1970. Hardcover. Second Printing.xiii, 360pp. Very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket that is sunned on the spine. More
Cattle Ships: Being the Fifth Cahpter of Mr. Plimsoll's second Appeal For Our Seamen
London: Kegan paul, Trench, Trubner, and Company, 1890. Hardcover. 150pp. Pages tanned, light scattered foxing throughout, joints rubbed with some wear to the extremities, else a very good example in publisher's illustrated green cloth. A plea for better conditions on ships for seamen and the cattle they carry. More
Life in Nelson's Navy
London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Hardcover. Reprint. 273pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
The Eyes of the Fleet: A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains 1793-1815
NY: W.W. Norton, 1996. Hardcover. First American Edition. 285pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
The Eyes of the Fleet: A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains 1793-1815
NY: W.W. Norton, 1996. Hardcover. First American Edition. 285pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. More
Steamboats Out of Baltimore
Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. xx, 223pp+ index. Foxing to prelims, else a very good hardback in a rubbed and heavily chipped jacket. More
Whales and destiny: the Rivalry Between Americam france, and Britain for Control of the Southern Whale Fishery, 1785-1825
[Amherst]: University of Massachusetts Press, 1972. Hardcover. xii, 407pp+ index. Very good hardback in a price clipped jacket. Inscribed and signed by Stackpole on the half title page. More