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

[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

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

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

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

[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

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: 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

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

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

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. First book edition, originally issued in 12 monthly parts. 8vo. 384 pp. Illustrated with 11 in-text engravings, engraved frontispiece and 35 engraved plates. Marryat's eighth novel of the sea, revolving around Greenwich Hospital, the refuge for wounded and disabled seamen. With the..... More