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, 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