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Salem: Peabody Museum, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine and light gray boards front cover lettered in red with backstrip in gilt. Fine in darker blue fine slipcase with spine paper label. 88 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 23 of 60 on Laverstoke rag paper. Folding map. Laid-in four page publisher publication notice and four… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. Hardcover. Quarter navy goatskin morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine suede lined matching clamshell box, brown leather spine label, back of box slightly sunned. 82 pages. 28 x38 cm. Limited edition, copy 443 of 600 signed by Eisenstadt printed in Munich on Arches Paper printed by Cartieri Enrico Magnani,… Read more about this item

Hartford: The Connecticut Printers, 1961. Hardcover. Full Irish linen silk-screened with a design by Fletcher Martin. Fine in fine maroon slipcase. Martin, Fletcher. 354 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy E.R. of 1500 (probably for Ernst Reichl designer of the title). Signed by Fletcher Martin who made the illustrations. Introduction by Edmund Gilligan, NEWMAN & WICHE… Read more about this item

London: Printed For Thomas and George Underwood, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco, marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers and edges. Near fine. ii,ii, 85 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Two page dedication to Lord Viscount Melville (First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty). Frontispiece diagram, and last page advert for the author's, "Treatise On The Gulf… Read more about this item

London: James Robbins, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. 19th century three quarter black morocco, marbled boards with matching endpapers. Teg. Very good. 200 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Twelve hand-colored plates with additional 12 uncolored plates designed and engraved by Cruikshank, and sixteen woodcuts in the text. One page ALS dated January 6th 1846 signed (Geo Cruikshank) bound… Read more about this item

Paris: Fonteney Et Peltier, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's maroon cloth decorated in blind, spine sunned. Very good. 396 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Half title, twelve lithographs by Charles Gaildrau, ten are tinted. History of shipwrecks from the 16th century onward. Intermittent, scattered text browning, plates generally clean, a few with marginal toning. Text in French.… Read more about this item

Akron: The Werner Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth decorated pictorially and in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 241 pages. Oblong folio, 45 x 34 cm. 43 chromolithographs (25 Army and 18 Navy), army and navy uniforms from the Revolution through the Spanish-American War with lettered tissue guards printed in red. Title page printed in… Read more about this item

London: Day & Son, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco spine, leather corners, gilt decorated front cover lettering. Aeg. Very good. Lloyd, William Whitelock. Unpaginated. Oblong folio. 30 x 40.5 cm. Edition de Luxe. copy 284 of 300 signed by Lloyd. One map, chromolithograph frontispiece, title page, 22 chromolithograph plates (with hand-coloring) and accompanying black and white… Read more about this item

London: Day & Son, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial beveled green cloth, front cover decorated in blue, red and yellow with lettering in gilt. Aeg. Very good. Lloyd, William Whitelock. Unpaginated. Oblong folio. 27 x 37.5 cm. One map, chromolithographed frontispiece, title page, 22 chromolithograph plates (without hand-coloring) and accompanying black and white sketches by Lloyd. Published… Read more about this item

Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue morocco spine and marbled boards. Near fine. Ravilious, Eric. 43 (3) pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 114 of 212 in Perpetua type on hand made paper signed by Strong. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. illustrated by Ravilious with a full… Read more about this item

London: Printed For T. Cadell, Jun, and W. Davies, 1798. Second edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Fine. 56 pages. 21 x 13 cm. With folding copper-engraved plan of the Battle of the Nile, also called the Battle of Abu Quir, one of Nelson's greatest victories, restoring the British presence in the Mediterranean and dooming Napoleon's… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Togo Gensui Publishing Society, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's gray patterned cloth decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. 347 pages. 30.2 x 23 cm. Illustrated with 22 color plates with tissue guards and black and white illustrations. A tribute in the laudatory style of contemporary Japanese imperial culture; the encomiums for Togo who died in 1934… Read more about this item

London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine. Briscoe, Arthur Trevor. 30 page in text. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 76 of 250 with an original signed etching by Arthur Briscoe. A marine painter and etcher who studied at the Slade Art School, he was elected an… Read more about this item

London: Saunders & Otley, 1837. Illustrated Edition. leather_bound. Later 19th century uniform polished tan calf. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. R.W. Buss. 304, 304, 308 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Another in the series of maritime fiction enormously popular in its day, amongst the first sea novels, by a distinguished naval hero based on his real life experiences.… Read more about this item

London: Saunders & Otley, 1837. Illustrated Edition. leather_bound. Later 19th century uniform polished tan calf. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. R.W. Buss. 312, 324, 316 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Another in the series of maritime fiction enormously popular in its day, amongst the first sea novels, by a distinguished naval hero based on his real life experiences.… Read more about this item

London: James Robbins, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. 19th century three quarter black morocco and blue cloth. Very good. 200 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Twelve hand-colored plates, tissue guards, designed and engraved by Cruikshank -- the plate facing p.61 with partially augmented by an amateur hand. With sixteen woodcuts in the text. ABBEY SCENERY 226. COHN 53.… Read more about this item

Denver: Old West Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green clean. Fine in nicked and chipped plain paper wrapper. 84 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated in color and black and white. Handsomely printed, bright, very clean copy.

New York: New York Historical Society, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.dark green cloth. Very good. 2 vols. Introduction by Dorothy C. Barck. Index. An important primary source for naval operations during the Revolutionary War. Vol. I:Letter-Books July 6, 1780- Feb. 4, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781; Dec. 10, 1781 - Sept. 21, 1782. Vol. II: Order-Book July, 1781; Nov.… Read more about this item

London: Richard Phillips, 1806. First English edition. Hardcover. Modern black cloth with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Near fine. 181 pages, 3 pp. Index. Small 4to, 21 1/2 x 13 cm. Folding map and seven aquatint plates, many with two images per plate. Translated from the French. 18th century account of European activity in West Africa.… Read more about this item

London: Staples Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 4to, 80 pages in text with eighty-four reproductions (twelve in color) and a new text by R.A. Skelton. General Bibliography. Provides a survey of maps printed from copper plates or wood-blocks. Twenty-two reproductions are new to this work.