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Paluka, Frank. THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK
1974 Beta Phi Mu. Hardcover octavo., 80pp., index, cloth. Fine, no DJ. (a11917)
$29.00Ross, Sir John. NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE AND OF A RESIDENCE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS DURING THE YEARS 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 INCLUDING THE REPORTS OF CAPT. J. C. ROSS,...AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTHERN MAGNETIC POLE
Paris 1835 Baudry's European Library. Hardcover. Octavo., 475pp., 2 steel plates, newly professionally rebound in 3/4 soft light brown leather leather with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. Binding is attractive and in Fine condition; internally VG plus, leaves cropped a bit (margin only, not affecting text); clean; binding very secure. No ownership marks. Excellent condition. (a1969)
$79.00(arctic). THE VOYAGE OF THE CHELYUSKIN
NY 1935 1st Macmillan. Translated by Alec Brown. Russian explorers travel through Arctic Ocean to Wrangel Island. Large octavo, 325pp., photo illustrations, index, light blue printed cloth hardcover. VG plus, no DJ. Hinges not cracked in or out; text clean; no owner marks. (a1988)
$49.00 Chater, Melville . TWO CANOE GYPSIES THEIR EIGHT HUNDRED MILE CANAL VOYAGE THROUGH BELGIUM, BRITTANY, TOURAINE, GASCONY AND LANGEUDOC: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF BACKDOORS LIFE ON A BARGEMAN'S HIGHWAY
NY 1932 Brewer, Warren and Putnam. Hardcover. Octavo., 230pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Good, light foxing, cover somewhat faded and worn, no DJ. (a23368)
$55.00 King, Ethel . THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH AND JUAN PONCE DE LEON
Brooklyn 1963 1st Theo. Gaus' Sons. Hardcover. Octavo., 152pp., index, cloth. Near Fine in fair DJ, worn with large chip on spine. (a24385)
$25.00 Cartier, Jacques . A SHORTE AND BRIEFE NARRATION OF THE TWO NAVIGATIONS AND DISCOVERIES TO THE NORTHWEST PARTES CALLED NEWE FRAUNCE
NY 1975. Johnson reprint of the London 1580 edition.The English Experience Number 718. Hardcover. Early travel to North America-the explorations described were taken in 1534 and 1535. Octavo, 80pp., glossary, red cloth. Fine, no DJ. (a26106)
$50.00 Jenkins, John S. . VOYAGE OF THE U.S. EXPLORING SQUADRON...IN 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, AND 1842 TOGETHER WITH EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES MADE BY ADMIRAL D'URVILLE, CAPTAIN ROSS, AND OTHERS ...AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION TO THE DEAD SEA UNDER LIEUTENANT LYNCH
Detroit 1853 Kerr, Doughty and Lapham. Travel throught the Pacific and all over the world. Hardcover. Octavo, 517pp., plates, full leather. Fair, quite worn; light foxing throughout, cracked on outer hinges, spine ends worn down. Binding secure. Useful research copy. (a33717)
$49.00 Nolte, Vincent . FIFTY YEARS IN BOTH HEMISPHERES OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE LIFE OF A FORMER MERCHANT
NY 1854 first edition. Redfield. Hardcover. Long chapters on a shipwreck, on New Orleans, Napoleon's Defeat at Waterloo and its effect on himself and other seafearers, the election of Andrew Jackson, the 1848 Revolt in France. 8vo., 484pp., original cloth hardcover. Howes 7440. Good, small bit of light foxing, wearing along spine ends and along one inch of outer hinge. (a3485)
$33.00Campbell, Donald. JOURNEY OVER LAND TO INDIA
Philadelphia 1797 appears to be first edition. T. Dobson. Hardcover octavo . Full leather. Partly by a route never gone before by any European...Comprehending his shipwreck and imprisonment with Hyder Alla and his subsequent negotiations and transactions in the East. Much content on Turkey. 424pp., plus 6 page Appendix and 2 page List of Books published by Dobson. Later paper backstrip with original leather boards which are quite worn. Internally the binding is secure. No blank end papers or halftitle - opens to titlepage. Top blank margin of titlepage cut off (no loss of text at all.) Title page has old dry water stain. Text lightly toned. Good usable copy. Occasional spots and stains in text. Very Scarce. Fascinating reading. (a37556)
$450.00 Lindsey, N. Allen . CRUISING IN THE MADIANA THE RECORD OF A WINTER TRIP TO THE TROPICS
Boston 1901 1st. Printed for private circulation. Limited to 300 copies. Author from Marblehead, Massachusetts. 12mo., 182pp., monochrome photo illus., hardcover. VG. Very scarce. (a42523)
$125.00(International Indian Ocean Expedition). INTERNATIONAL INDIAN OCEAN EXPEDITION: USC&GS SHIP PIONEER 1964. FOUR VOLUMES
1965-1969 U.S. Department of Commerce. Volume 1: Cruise Narrative and Scientific Results; Volume 2: Data Report: Oceanographic Stations, BT Observations, and Bottom Samples; Volume 3: Bathymetry, Geomagnetic and Gravity Data; Volume 4: Primary Productivity and Plankton Biological Sampling Program Results. 4 volumes. 4to., 139pp., 183pp., 250pp., 103pp., photo illustrations, maps, wraps. Depository library stamp on front and on title page, ink numbers on front. VG. 4 volumes. (a49271)
$149.00 McGinnis, E. L'H. . THE YARN OF THE "YAMPA" A TRANSATLANTIC CRUISE
NY 1898 1st Outing Publishing. Yacht cruise to Russia from New York. Sm.8vo., 160pp., photo illustrations, decorated boards. Bookplate of Seawanhaka Yacht Club. Near Good, some rubbing and a long scratch on rear board. (a50730)
$95.00 Spry, W. J. J. R.N. . THE CRUISE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP 'CHALLENGER' VOYAGES OVER MANY SEAS, SCENES IN MANY LANDS
London 1876 first edition Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington. Hardcover Octavo, 388pp., 24pp., large foldout map, text illustrations, green cloth with fine gilt ship pictured on front and gilt lettering with publisher's logo on spine. VG plus, some slight spotting on fore-edges, slight wear on lower spine end and corners. No ownership marks. All hinges secure and unbroken. The Very hard-to-find first edition. Lovely copy. (a51920)
$340.00 Hecker, O. . BESTIMMUNG DER SCHWERKRAFT AUF DEM ATLANTISCHEN OZEAN SOWIE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, LISSABON UND MADRID
Berlin 1903 1st Stankiewicz. Veroffentlichung des Konigl. Preuszischen Geodatischen Institutes Neue Folge No.11. In German. 4to., 137pp., 9 plates of which three are foldout, one is a map and one is an original stereoscopic photograph of a Pendelapparat, original printed wraps. Small observatory library stamp on front cover with small square paper label on lower front cover. VG. Rare. (a52425)
$350.00 (yachting) . THE CRUISER - A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF CRUISING TALES AND ADVENTURES - VOLUME II (only)
New York 1907 Rudder Publishing. first edition. Hardcover. octavo. Dark brown cloth. Includes: A Cruise on the West Coast by Arthur F. Evans; A Summer Cruise in Florida by J. Foster Searles; Log of the Sloop Yacht Isolt by Capt. W. E. Meyer; Little Cruises of Onkahye by Winfield M. Thompson; Cruise of the Galatea by Norman Howard and several others. 400pp., photo illustrations. Good, inner hinges cracked; no ownership marks; text clean. no dj. Scarce. Volume 2 only. (a53834)
$49.00 Martin, Franklin H. MD . SOUTH AMERICA AMPLIFIED TO INCLUDE ALL OF LATIN AMERICA; THE VANDYCK CRUISE
Ny 1927 revised edition. Revell. 12mo., 435pp., photo illustrations, red cloth hardcover. Inscribed presentation copy (possibly from author but unsigned.) VG, no DJ. (a57754)
$25.00Waring, Geo. E. Jr.. BRIDE OF THE RHINE. TWO HUNDRED MILES IN A MOSEL ROW-BOAT
Boston 1878 (1877) Osgood. To which is added the paper on the Latin poet Ausonius and his poem Mosella by Charles T. Brooks. Hardcover 12mo. 312pp. Bright green cover cloth hardcover with very bright gilt decoration and black lettering. A boat trip down the Moselle River in Germany fully illustrated with woodcut illustrations. End papers heavily marked by library , bookplate and date due slip. Binding secure; hinges not broken, spine numbers removed. A few blind stamps in text. Text slightly evenly toned. Excellent choice for reading or study. (a65359)
$35.00 Stevenson, Paul Eve . A DEEP-WATER VOYAGE
Philadelphia 1897 1st Lippincott. Cruise from NY to Calcutta on the Mandalor. Octavo, 287pp., frontis maps, hardcover. Fair, frontis map cracking at hinge, text foxed moderately throughout, one text page torn in half horizontally but still securely bound in and no loss of text, cover faded and quite soiled. Reading copy - sold as is. (a65495)
$22.00 Green, Captain Alfred J. . JOTTINGS FROM A CRUISE
Seattle 1947 Second Printing. Large octavo, 451pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Promotional brochure laid in. VG in Good DJ, some chips and wear. (a65843)
$22.00 Croffut, W. A. Ph.D. . FOLKS NEXT DOOR THE LOG BOOK OF A RAMBLER
Washington c. 1905 3rd Eastside Publishing Co. Yachting adventures in the Northeast and in Maine; Fishing in Cape Cod, Quoddy Island, Newfoundland, Labrador, Quebec, Panama Canal, Mexico. Small octavo, 371pp., illustrations, original red cloth hardcover. VG, light cover wear, one leaf has light wear in the margin. Scarce. (a65990)
$120.00 Raabe, Captain H. E. . CANNIBAL NIGHTS THE REMINISCENCES OF A FREE-LANCE TRADER
New York 1927 2nd Payson. Australia and South Pacific. Octavo, 324pp., illustrations, end paper maps, orange cloth hardcover with black diagonal stripe design. VG plus, wrinkling on spine cloth, no DJ. (a67215)
$39.00 Schildt, Goran . SOLB�DEN. MED DAPHNE P� NILEN
1957 Gyldendal. Pa dansk ved Ole Storm. Travel down the Nile. In Danish. 4to., 255pp., photo illustrations, maps, original wraps with DJ. VG, light wear. (a67292)
$30.00 Dunbar, John . THE LOST LAND - UNDERWATER EXPLORATION IN THE ISLES OF SCILLY
Collins 1958 1st St. James's Place. Octavo, 192pp., photo illustrations, blue cloth hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a67348)
$33.00McQuade, James. THE CRUISE OF THE MONTAUK TO BERMUDA, THE WEST INDIES AND FLORIDA
New York 1885 (1884) Knox. Octavo, 441pp., full pictorial brown cloth. VG slight wear; hinges not cracked in or out. no dj. (a67816)
$38.00 (Captain James Cook) . BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
NY 1968. Franklin reprint of original 1928 edition. Comprising the collections in the Mitchell library and General Reference Library, the pricate collections of William Dixson and J A Ferguson and Items of special interest in the National Library, Canberra, etc. Octavo, 172pp., heardcover. Near Fine. (a67892)
$20.00Maas, C.. WHY DON'T YOU TRY IT, MON?
c. 1950. Privately Printed Memoir of two week sailing trip in Windward Islands, British West Indies by Mrs. Stanley E. Maas. 4to., 37pp., plastic spiral binding with pictorial front wrap. 37p. Small ink note on front end paper. VG plus. (a68130)
$45.00 (travel) . A WINTER CRUISE AND SOME MENTAL RAMBLINGS
1922 Printed fo Private Circulation, in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press. Cruise to Mexico, Majorca, Gibralter, Sardinia, etc. Small octavo, 132pp., blue cloth hardcover with paper label on front. Inscribed but not signed: With the writer's best wishes for 1923. Good plus, 9 pages have stainat top corner (not near text), light foxing. (a68305)
$250.00 Molloy, J. L. . OUR AUTUMN HOLIDAY ON FRENCH RIVERS
Boston 1879 1st Amer Roberts Brothers. Hardcover. Small octavo, 319pp., original gilt decorated brown cloth. VG. (a70330)
$85.00 Wilkinson, Hugh . SUNNY LANDS AND SEAS A VOYAGE IN THE SS. 'CEYLON' NOTES MADE DURING A FIVE MONTHS' TOUR IN INDIA, THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MANILA, CHINA, JAPAN, THE SANDWICH ISLANDS AND CALIFORNIA
London 1883 1st John Murray. Hardcover. Octavo, 324pp., frontis folding map, illustrations, attratcive blue cloth cover with gilt and black decoration and lettering. Near Good, inner hinges cracked, cover a bit worn. Good solid copy of Scarce book. (a71131)
$290.00 Murray, Rev. Thos. Boyles; revised by Rev. C. C. Elcum . PITCAIRN OR THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. PITCAIRN: THE ISLAND, THE PEOPLE AND THE PASTOR TO WHICH IS ADDED A SHORT NOTICE OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION OF NORFOLK ISLAND
London 1909 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Revised and brought up to date by Rev C. C. Elcum. Hardcover. Small octavo, 368pp., frontis of John Adams, pictorial front board with John Adams, the ship Bounty, ocean, rope, rocks, and so on. VG light wear. (a71953)
$120.00 de Monfried, Henri and Ida Treat . PEARLS ARMS AND HASHISH, PAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A RED SEA NAVIGATOR
NY 1930 1st Coward-McCann. Adventures include gun smuggling, prison, pearl diving, drug running and conversion to Islam. Hardcover. Octavo, 356pp., photo illustrations, endpaper maps, brown cloth with gilt lettering. VG plus, fainting soiling on cover, no DJ. No ownership marks. (a73061)
$65.00 McFee, William . SIR MARTIN FROBISHER
London 1928 1st John Lane the Bodley Head. Frobisher, English navigator and explorer, lived 1535-1594. 8vo., 288pp., index, hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a7555)
$30.00By the Earl and the Doctor (Herbert, George and George Kingsley). SOUTH SEA BUBBLES
London 1872 Richard Bentley. Hardcover. Travel from Tahiti to Samoa complete with shipwreck. 8vo., 312pp., 3/4 leather. Museum bookplate and blind stamp, no other wnership marks. Text clean and binding secure. cover rubbed and worn. Good. (lat52)
$39.00