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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)
$450.00Frey, Donald A.. EXCAVATION REPORT LA SECCA DI CAPISTELLO (signed)
Lipari 1977 Institute of Naval Archeology. Excavation of a shipwreck. 4to., 17 leaves mimeo on rectos only plus overlays and photo illustrations, velo bound. Signed by Frey on the final text leaf. VG. (a39767)
$49.00Brooks, Charles Wolcott. JAPANESE WRECKS STRANDED AND PICKED UP ADRIFT IN THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN
Fairfield 1964 Ye Galleon Press. Reprint of 1876 edition. Limited to 400 copies. 8vo., 23pp., wraps. VG plus. (a41958)
$49.00Fellowes, William Dorset. ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE LADY HOBART, PACKET, ON AN ISLAND OF ICE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, AND THE PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE OF THE CREW IN THEIR OPEN BOATS TO WHICH IS ADDED THE WRECK OF THE VRYHEID, A DUTCH EAST INDIAMAN , OFF DOVER, NOVEMBER 23, 1802 INCLUDING THE MELANCHOLY FATE OF THE CAPTAIN, HIS WIFE AND CHILD
London (1803) Printed for Champante & Whitrow, Jewry-Streey, Aldgate. 12mo., 38pp., removed and rebound in later wraps. Good, text a bit worn, some soiling. Not a modern remake. (a67578)
$100.00 Delgado, James P. et al . ARCHEOLOGY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB: A SUBMERGED CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSESSMENT OF THE SUNKEN FLEET OF OPERATION CROSSROADS AT BIKINI AND KWAJALEIN ATOLL LAGOONS, REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
1991 National Park Service. 4to., 208pp., photo illustrations, original wraps. A few non-circulating library marks. VG plus. (a75915)
$85.00Dewar, J Cumming. VOYAGE OF THE NYANZA R.N.Y.C.
Edinburgh and London 1892 first edition. Blackwood. Hardcover octavo. Green cloth. "Being the Record of a Three Years' Cruise in a Schooner Yacht in the Atlantic and Pacific and her Subsequent Shipwreck". 466p. Two photo gravures; 14 fullpage illustrations and one foldout map. VG Plus, just slight wear; hinges not cracked; no ownership marks. no dj. Voyage from Azores, Trinidad, Patagonia, Falklands, Peru, Papeete, Fiji, New Caledonia, Sandwich Islands, Vancouver Island, Mariani islands, Japan, (a91639)
$89.00Morison, Samuel Eliot. THE DRY SALVAGES AND THE THACHER SHIPWRECK - article on one issue of American Neptune for October 1965
Salem, Massachusetts. 1965 first edition. Issue of The American Neptune for October 1965. sm4to wraps. Morison article on pp. 233-247 with 4 pages bw photo illus. VG no ownermarks. (a93881a)
$29.00Peterson, Mendel. HISTORY UNDER THE SEA - A HANDBOOK FOR UNDERWATER EXPLORATIONS
Washington 1969 Smithsonian. Hardcover octavo. Blue cloth. 208p. Many bw photo illus of shipwrecks and their found cargo. Depository library marks; no spine label (very faint marks where label once was attached.) o/w VG no dj. (a97168)
$35.00 By 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)
$29.00