17 are 5 x 7 inches, mounted one to a page, the balance approximately 2 1/2 x 4 1/4, mounted four or five to the page. Photographs mounted on plain black album paper bound into blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped "Navy" on the upper cover, tied. Some of the images are..... More
London, England: Saunders, Otley & Co. (Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.), 1864. Third edition (i.e., first and only Confederate edition). 8vo. xix, 171, cix pp. 21 plates (17 lettered A-P, with two each for letters C and D and J not used, each labelled "Diagrams" and 4 numbered plates in..... More
London, England: Saunders, Otley & Co.). (Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.), 1864. Third edition (i.e., first and only Confederate edition). 8vo. xix, 171, cix pp. 21 plates (17 lettered A-P, with two each for letters C and D and J not used, each labelled "Diagrams" and 4 numbered plates in..... More
Jan. 1943 - Jan. 1946. A group of 28 black & white photos, 8 x 10 in. (one slightly smaller), most stamped on verso with a date, file number, and brief historical explanation. Most of the images are from 1945. All are clear, bright. The PT Boat images, four from..... More
[Beruit: U. S. S. North Carolina], 1915. Printed glossy tan paperwraps, stapled, small chip to front cover. Photo illustration of the U.S.S. North Carolina, by Brown Bros. Photo, Newport News, Va., on front wrapper. 21cm. 14pp., (2). Illustrated with photos and sketches. Stamp of the Serials Division Sample File in..... More
[Washington, DC]: Released for Publication by the Navy Department, nd [ca.1945]. First edition. Oblong 4to. 46 pp., mostly illustrations from black and white photographs, all well-captioned, color map and plate for unit citation, black and white cartoons. The photographs record “something of how we lived, what we saw, and what..... More
Richmond, VA: Richmond Press, 1910. First edition. 8vo. 69 pp. Two portrait plates of the author. Beall and his men, including Baker, operated as naval irregulars, primarily in the Chesapeake Bay area; after mounting an unsuccessful foray into Lake Erie in an attempt to free Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island..... More
London: J. Brindley, G. Hawkins, R. Dodsley, [and] J. Millan, 1744. First edition. 8vo. viii, (4), 283, (1, errata) pp. Personal account of service during the War of Spanish Succession. With the engraved bookplates of Hon. Charles Hope Weir of Craigie Hall & Blackwood, with a Craigie Hall Library location..... More
Jan. 17, 1844. A 3 page autograph letter, approx. 780 words, addressed on the fourth integral page. With manuscript corrections and edits. Bridge's lengthy letter from aboard ship to Maine Senator Fairfield records the Saratoga's efforts to suppress the slave trade along the coast of Liberia. He describes his participation..... More
Providence, RI: N. Bangs Williams & Co., 1881. First separate edition, Second Series of the Society's Papers, No. 12. Small 4to. 37 pp. Recollections of serving in the blockading fleet along the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia in 1864. Very good. Original printed yellow-green wrappers ( a little chipping..... More
Providence, RI: Published by the society, 1890. First separate edition, Fourth Series of the Society's Papers, No. 6, 1/250 unnumbered copies. Small 4to. 51 pp. Nevins I, p. 220: "A good deal of personal observations by the paymaster's clerk of the Monitor." Still a good copy. Original printed yellow-green wrappers..... More
Weldon, NC: Harrell's Printing House (for the Pee Dee Historical Assn.), 1910. First edition (traditionally catalogued as 1/100 copies, but we have been unable to substantiate the limitation). 8vo. 116 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author who served in the Confederate navy as an "Ex-passed Midshipman," offering his experiences here..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1856. 8vo. Three-quartered green leather with marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt rules and stamping. Edges worn. Illustrations all present but not opposite pages listed. More
Paris: A. and W. Galignani and Co., 1842. First French edition (in English), published the same year as the first (Philadelphia). 8vo. (4), 390 pp. Somewhat later half-calf and marbled boards (rubbed, corners bumped), leather label, gilt rules and ornaments between raised bands on spine. Rather consistent light foxing, neat..... More
[NY? 1876]. First separate edition, reprinted from Harper's Magazine. 8vo. 30 pp. A native of Bull's Island, South Carolina, Shubrick (1790-1874) served as a young officer in the War of 1812, at the beginning of a long career in the U.S. Navy. Not in Turnbull. OCLC locates 12 copies, but..... More
Washington, DC: Press of Shaw Bros. 1910. First edition. 8vo. 46 pp. Illustrated, portrait. Inscribed to John H. Hunter by "the author". Scarce; the NUC locates only three copies(DLC, ViU, NcD), only microfilm editions found on OCLC. Not in Nevins or Broadfoot. Original printed wrappers (spine eroded). More
New York, (NY): John A. Gray & Green, Printers and Stereoypers, Fire-Proof Buildings, Corner of Frankfort and Jacob Streets, 1864. First edition. 8vo. 80 pp. Original beige printed wraps (spine glued to binder). Inscribed in ink by the author on the front cover. Sabin 20018. See DAB for a brief..... More
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1862. First edition. 8vo. (2), 107 pp. Illustrated with two chromolithographic plates and three folding maps. With the ownership signature, dated in the year of publication, of J. Winthrop Taylor (1817-1880), Surgeon-General of the U.S. Navy in the 1870s; Taylor was surgeon aboard the "Pensacola," 1861-1863, and..... More
New York: Naval History Society, 1918. First edition, 1/1200 copies (Vol I #993, Vol. X # 21) printed at the De Vinne Press, Publications of the Naval Society, Vols. IX & X. 8vo. xvi, 440; xx, 492 pp. Engraved portraits of the author and admirals Farragut and Porter. Nevins I...... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. 8vo. xii, 381 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, frontispiece portrait of Luce (1827-1917), a native of New York, who commanded a coast blockader during the Civil War; he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1848, was involved in naval education throughout..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870. Original brown pebbled cloth with title and author stamped in gilt on spine. Worn on edges and spine ends, with a nick top of spine. Inscribed by Admiral George Belknap to his son: "To my darling little son Prescott Hartford Belknap Sept. 23..... More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Academy, 1929. First edition. Large 4to. 534 pp. Illustrated, portraits, three full-page color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Among the graduating class was future science-fiction master Robert A. Heinlein, with a full-page devoted to his class photograph and biographical information, signed by Heinlein at his picture, and..... More
[Washington, DC]: (GPO, 1932). Broadsheet, 10 1/2 x 8 inches, announcing the certain public lands, as listed here, be "temporarily withdrawn for classification as to their suitability for migratory bird refuge purposes." The lands are listed by section number in the Willamette Meridian." Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Very good..... More
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Single sheet, folded in half with integral address, postmarked. 32 cm. 3pp. of text, over 800 words in a legible hand. Sepia ink, old fold lines, one small hole affecting a word or two at a fold, old cello tape marks (tape since removed) along a few of the folds..... More
Savannah, GA: Morning New Steam Printing House, 1878. First edition. 8vo. vii, 255, (4) pp. Frontispiece portrait of Tattnall (1795-1871), a native of Savannah and a career American naval officer having served in the War of 1812 as a midshipman, the Mediterranean conflicts in the 1820s as a lieutenant, the..... More
