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
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 61 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author, 1 full-page plate. 12mo, original pale green cloth and gray boards, paper title label to front cover. Captain Knights's memoirs of a life at sea, mainly in the Far East and South Pacific during..... More
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
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
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
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..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1970). Limited first 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..... More
[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