Maritime History from The Owl at the Bridge

"This dictionary contains listings for 3,074 marine artists working during the last four centuries. The majority [were] active in the nineteenth century... The term 'marine artist' is here understood to indicate an individual engaged in any form of painting, drawing, or sketching of vessels, sea scenes, and coastal and harbor scenes... our deliberate emphasis [was] on pierhead painters..." Hardcover; xix,… Ler mais sobre este item

Arthus Bertrand, Éditeur, Libraire De La Société De Géographie, 23, Rue Hautefeuille. 1837. "Paris. Imprimerie De C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Rue des Poitevins, no. 14." on verso of half-title. "Note De L'Éditeur. Cet ouvrage n'était point destiné à l'impression. Ce sont de simples notes recueillies pendant un voyage entrepris dans le but de fonder un établissement au Guazacoalcos.… Ler mais sobre este item

257, [1] pages, text illustrations & plates (7 colored) showing ships & uniformed personnel; 26.5 cm. Bound in green mottled paper over boards, black leather spine loose, part gone, corners & edges rubbed, rear cover detached; much internal foxing & staining; a fair copy, as is. Stock#ofc0845.

Sections: Reference Works; Merchantmen and Warships; Captains and Crews; Maritime Science, Exploration and Expansion; Commerce and Shipping; Navies; Naval History by Chronological Periods; Special Topics (Auxiliary Services; Ports; Maritime Economics; Commodities; Passengers & Migration; Maritime & International Law; Privateering, Buccaneering, and Piracy; Marine Disasters; Safety at Sea and Salvage; Maritime Historical Journals; Major American Maritime Museums. "First edition… Ler mais sobre este item

Series: History of Civilization. Contents include I. Areas of Operation: Spanish America; South Atlantic & West Indies; West Indies & North America; Indian Ocean; East Indies & China Sea; II. Collisions and Mutinies: Spanish Succession; War, trade & plantations; first American revolt; new conquistadores; French was & the second American revolt; III. Second Age of Discovery: Ships & sailors;… Ler mais sobre este item

"The purpose of this book is to tell in outline the story of European geographical exploration, trade and settlement outside the bounds of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to define the factors which stimulated expansion and made it possible; and to describe briefly the consequences which followed from it." xv, 365 pages, 80 illustrations, 5 maps,… Ler mais sobre este item

"Knowledge of continuous sea passages from ocean to ocean round the world... was the outcome of the century or so of European maritime questing... What were the motives which drove seamen out from fifteenth-century Europe upon a career of worldwide discovery?" xv, 302 pages, illustrations, index; oblong quarto, 26 cm. Bound by Tapley-Rutter in tan binder's cloth, color… Ler mais sobre este item

"Reprinted from The Mariner's Mirror 1969 Vol. 55 No. 5", pages 365-381. Stapled in plain paper wraps; Good. Stock#ofc0480.

"Mr. Sherman is Librarian of the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island. His present familiarity with whaling stems from a long-time interest in the field. This article was adapted from a paper read at a meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston [Massachusetts], October 1958." Pamphlet, 8 pages stapled in blue paper covers; Very Good.… Ler mais sobre este item

Six Bulletins from Edward J. Lefkowicz: 22, The Sea, the Ship & the Sailor, 131 items; 33, Whaling, 99 items; 38, Arctic Whaling & Other Subjects, 80 items; 61, Uncommon Books on Naval History, Voyages, &c., 74 items; 71, Naval Architecture, Rigging & Seamanship, 97 items; 72, Naval History and Tactics, 109 items. All Bulletins stapled without covers;… Ler mais sobre este item

Two bookseller catalogues: Howland, 4-79, Full and By, 118 items; Kahn, Men and the Sea, 103 items, 3 illus.; both stapled in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0289.

OFFPRINT. Sent under Captain Ebenezer Corey to trade in South America and the Pacific, the Eliza struck on a reef in the Fijis; Corey continued his reports to Brown & Ives; this account is based on papers in the John Carter Brown Library. Reprinted from The American Neptune XXIII. 4, October 1963, pages 233-254, 2 plates; stapled without… Ler mais sobre este item

416 pages, B&W plates, maps. Dust jacket has tears; some smudges on bottom edge of pages. Mid-20th century academic analysis of Spain's mastery of the seas and conquest of the New World, its peoples and cultures. Sam Hough's copy with his bookplate and page of notes. Stock#ofc0064.

Brattleboro, Vt., Stephen Daye Press, 1937. The Fall River Line had just closed down when this history of it was published. After 90 years of carrying passengers and the day's production of the textile mills to New York City, the line was done in by rail competition. Hard Cover. 190 pages, plates, portraits, facsimiles; 21 cm. Spine faded;… Ler mais sobre este item

American Neptune Inc., Salem, Mass. [Anthoensen Press/Meriden Gravure], 1949. Periodical. Includes Bright Light on 'Flying Cloud' v. 'Andrew Jackson'; Bark 'Vernon'; Arab Dhows of Eastern Arabia; A Sea of Troubles. Voyage of 'Bonetta', 1718; Evolution of the Chesapeake Clipper-Schooner [&] Yachting in Chesapeake Bay, 1676-1783; Design of American Frigates of the Revolution and Joshua Humphreys; Last Days of Coasting… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Charles Scribner's, 1967. Hard Cover. 190 pages. "The life of Sir Francis Drake, 1543-1597, spans the great age of maritime expansion in England. Within little more than fifty years, Engand developed naval forces that changed her from a middling island kingdom to a world sea power." Very Good; dust jacket good+. Stock#100575/h.

Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut, November 1955. Soft Cover. (#29). 86 p., illus. & plates; stapled in printed paper wraps; spine darkened, covers a bit soiled; VG. Contents include The South Shetand Islands; The First Sealers Arrive; Second Sealing Season 1820-1821; The 'Hero' and 'Express' Sail to the South Shetlands; The Schooner 'Huntress' Meets the Ship 'Huron'… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City, N.Y., Published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press [1967]. "A survey of the natural history of these Outer Lands-- their dynamic landscape and their distinctive animal and plant life." Hard Cover. 192 pages, illus. (part color), maps; 25 cm. Vg, illustrated covers / no dj. Stock#44734.

Providence, R.I., The John Carter Brown Library, 1979. "The compilation of the list was carried out by Danial Elliott." Lists over 1200 items organized by topic including Navigation, Piracy, Marine Architecture, and Law of the Sea. Most titles were published before 1800. Soft Cover. x, 335 pages; Indexes; 28 cm. Very Good; typescript in spiral binding.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York, Dodd, Mead, c1977. Not all the tales are maritime: there is a chapter on Lizzie Borden at the end. Hard Cover. xii, 272 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illus., index, 21 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#40182.