Softcover. Very good. 30 photographs mounted to loose album pages, accompanied by a 10-page typed narrative titled “Log of the ‘Rowena’ March 15, 1921 to March 7, 1921 by GB.” The author was George Briggs Buchanan, (1875-1939), a self-made multi-millionaire described in his New York Times obituary as "for more..... Item #23259
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1966. Softcover. Fine. 91 pp. As new. The objectives of this publication are "to offer a preliminary, and necessarily brief, examination of the changes in the age-old process of interaction [among nations] on the ocean that account for the emergence of novel problems in..... Item #2379
Salamanca: Junta de Castilla Y Leon, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine in a very good dust jacket. 224 pp, with bibliography, index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. Dust jacket has sales stickers on back cover. Text is in Spanish. Estudios de historia de la ciencia y de la tecnica..... Item #1803
New York: David McKay, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. First U.S. edition. 191 pp, illustrated with photos, line drawings, and maps. Indexed. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, mild toning to top edge of boards..... Item #11822
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Fiftieth Congress, 1887-'88, Volume 19. 4to. 128 pp, with many b/w illustrations from photographs and two color plates of birds (auks). Bound in full leather with red..... Item #23354
Baltimore, MD: George W. King Printing Co., 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. Second printing. 430 pp, indexed, extensively illustrated with b/w photos, folding map at rear. Green cloth boards. Light shelfwear. Tight binding, unmarked text. No dust jacket. Includes a short history of Florida followed by excerpts from writings on fishing..... Item #12866
Carleton: New York, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 448 pp, illustrated. Origingal green cloth boards. Mild spine slant, some foxing, bookplate of M.L. Dowe's Circulating Library on front pastedown, evidence of a paper cover once glued down to the pastedowns. Includes material on California, Italy, Australia, Egypt. Cowan p...... Item #13833
Middletown: Loomis & Richards, 1815. Hardcover. Good. First edition of Richard Alsop's expanded version of Jewitt's "Journal Kept at Nootka Sound" (Boston, 1807).12mo, 203 pp, with frontis illustration of the ship Boston in Nootka Sound, in contemporary full-leather binding with gilt spine label. Frontis shaved at lower margin (minimal loss..... Item #22572
ournal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. 1 pp + 2 (folding tables), in original wrappers. Handling wear with a few short chips and tears to edges; text clean. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 3. Tables..... Item #2876
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series No. 18. 59 pp, with four plates (one folding), bound in orange cloth. One of 500 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Fine copy in a protective mylar jacket. English translation of three..... Item #23345
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1970. Hardcover. Fine. Baja California Travels Series No. 19. 76 pp, with illustrations and a folding map, bound in illustrated brown cloth. One of 500 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena. Fine copy in a protective mylar jacket. "Ignacio Maria..... Item #23346
New York: William Morrow & Co, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. First printing. 246 pp, illustrated with color photos. Slight wear to spine ends, else fine in a fine jacket. After their boat capsized, the author and his 3 friends (including 2 NFL players)..... Item #11749
American Society of Naval Engineers, [1894]. Softcover. Near fine. Offprint. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume VI, No. 1. Pages 445-463 + 4 plates (3 charts, photographic frontispiece) in original wrappers. Discusses testing on the steamer's boilers, engines, and electrical plant. Item #2871
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 274 pp, with index, map endpapers, 95 illustrations from photographs, tinted frontispiece from a photo by Ernest E. Lorillard. Bound in blue cloth with mounted color illustration. Small chip to illustration, corners lightly bumped, bookplate of J. Elmore Turrell..... Item #22365
Annapolis, MD: Admiralty Publishing House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. 172 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photos. An as-new copy in a price-clipped and lightly rubbed dust jacket. Account of Australian multi-millionare Alan Bond's first attempt to win the America's Cup. Item #13260
