Detroit: Freshwater Press, 1960. First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers (paperback); 172 pp. Tables of data regarding Great Lakes vessels from about 1884. More about GREENWOOD'S GUIDE TO GREAT LAKES FREIGHTERS
Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Original burgundy cloth with gilt spine title; octavo; x, (221) pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 32 plates (15 are double-page), 70 illustrations in the text. Spine ends frayed; covers somewhat faded, still about very good. 17 individual chapters include Ancient Light-Houses... More about ANCIENT AND MODERN LIGHT-HOUSES
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1970). Limited edition. Hardcover. Original cream linen boards; oblong quarto (10.25 x 7.25 inches); xvii, 201 pp. Illustrated endpapers, b/w illustrations throughout, slipcase. Some rubbing to spine lettering. Second volume in the American Maritime Library. Limited to 725 copies signed by the author of which this is #163. More about WAKE OF THE COASTERS
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872. First edition. Original maroon cloth with gilt title; octavo; 83 pp. 9 full-page plates of lighthouses (8 lithographs and 1 Woodburytype, tissue guards. Report of the Board (founded in 1851) on its operations regarding buoys, lighthouses, light ships, etc. on the coasts of the United... More about ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY for...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. First edition. Original flexible maroon cloth with gilt title; octavo; 90 pp. 7 full-page Woodburytype sepia-toned plates of lighthouses, tissue guards. Report of the Board (founded in 1851) on its operations regarding buoys, lighthouses, light ships, etc. on the coasts of the United States. Plates... More about ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY for...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. First edition. Paperback. Original blue printed wrappers; quarto; 79 pp. Wrappers soiled and with chips to edges. The 1875 edition of the annual list of lighthouses first issued in 1838. Scarce. More about LIST OF LIGHT-HOUSES, LIGHTED BEACONS, AND FLOATING LIGHTS ON THE ATLANTIC, GULF, AND PACIFIC...
New Bedford (et al): New Bedford Whaling Museum, The Kendall Whaling Museum, Ten Pound Island Book Co., 2001. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Hardcover. ix, 746 pp., frontispiece; oblong quarto, original maroon cloth with gilt titles. Compiled in 2 sections: lists of voyages alphabetized by ship's master, and by vessel name. More about WHALING MASTERS AND WHALING VOYAGES SAILING FROM AMERICAN PORTS: A Compilation of Sources
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1970). Limited edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth spine and green boards; octavo (7.5 x 10.25 inches); x, 303 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece, with b&w illustrations throughout. All edges decoratively speckled. Very good in very good slipcase. Volume I in the American Maritime Library limited... More about GLORY OF THE SEAS
[Portland, Oregon]: Northwest Steel Co., 1918 (Jan.-Dec., twice per month). First edition. Hardcover. Limp green cloth with gilt spine title, 9 x 6 inches. First 24 numbers of "Heave Together" bound with original covers into a single volume. Illustrated. Large (9 x 28 inches) folding panoramic photographic frontispiece inside front... More about HEAVE TOGETHER (Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 1, No. 24