MARITIME[Embracing the Riparian]
MARITIME
Standard & Ground (or Wave?)-Breaking
(A
is for “ARTE”). Medina, Pedro
de. Arte del navigare. Venetia: Appresso Tomaso
Baglioni, 1609. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). A4 b4 2A8
B–Q8 R10; [7], [1 (blank)], 137, [1 (blank)] ff.;
illus. 
Also included is a woodcut map showing Europe, the Atlantic, and the New World.
• Palau 159680; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 609/77; Medina, BHA, 123. Old vellum; red leather, gilt-lettered spine label; some staining, and chipping to edges and label. Old, careful repairs to interior worming occasionally cost individual letters (but never sense) or a little loss to an illustration. Old rubber-stamps and red and black ownership label on title-page; inked notations on title-page and front pastedown. All edges speckled red.
The
FRENCH
Position: In
re:
Privateers
& More
(“Authentic”).
[Adet, Pierre Auguste]. Authentic. Official notes, from the minister
of the French Republic, to the secretary of state of the United States of America.
With a replication to the first note, by the secretary of state. Philadelphia:
J. Ormrod, [ca. 1796]. 8vo signed in 4s (20 cm, 7.9"). 42 pp.
• ESTC W21390; Evans 30442; not in Sabin. Recently rebound in quarter blue morocco over blue cloth, leather edges stamped with gilt rolls, spine gilt-stamped with title and publication information. Title-page with inner margin reinforced, chips to outer edges. Some leaves lightly spotted, title-page somewhat more darkly so.
MUTINY on the
H.M.S. Bounty — Official Account Bligh, William. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny aboard said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the friendly islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. . . . Published by permission of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty. Dublin: Pr. by H. Fitzpatrick, for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. McKenzie, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, R. McAllister, and J. Rice, 1792. 8vo (20.3 cm, 8"). Frontis. port., [14], 376 pp.; 2 plts. (including frontis.).
Click the interior images for enlargements. very important official account of the Bounty expedition, reprinted from the London quarto edition of the same year but issued without the charts and plans. “It includes a somewhat revised version of the text of Bligh's narrative of the mutiny, previously published at London in 1970 under the title A narrative of the mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty. . . . This account was based upon Bligh's journal but was written, edited, and seen through the press by James Burney, under the supervision of Joseph Banks, during
Bligh's absence from London while on his second breadfruit voyage on the Providence (Hill, 48).” The open-boat voyage across the South Pacific to Timor ranks as one of the most remarkable achievements in maritime history.
Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Bligh and one other plate showing sections of the bread fruit, this is
scarce. Searches of OCLC and ESTC find
only 10 copies of this edition.
• ESTC T209375; Sabin 5910; Hill, Pacific Voyages, 135 (for London edition). Good-quality 20th-century quarter calf and marbled paper-covered sides, spine with gilt lettering and neat blind-stamped devices between gilt-accented raised bands. Title-page with upper outer corner repaired with loss of “e” and partial loss of “g” from the word “voyage”; slight paper loss at bottom edge of one other leaf. Some foxing and browning on early and later leaves, including plates and title-page, and random spotting/staining found elsewhere; light offsetting to p. [1] from facing plate. A copy that clearly saw serious use, yet one complete with the frontispiece and plate — sound. (23927)
Maritime Derring-Do —
Romance for Boys?Brady, Cyrus Townsend. The Quiberon touch. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1901. 8vo. Frontis., viii, 410, [14 (adv.)] pp. 
• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white, green, and gilt; binding slightly cocked, with light rubbing to extremities. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate ("Fifth Form English Library"); front free endpaper with small bookseller's ticket and pencilled owner's name. A clean, handsome copy. (16721)
Mr. Cook's
Commonplace Book
Cook, Benjamin H. Manuscript on paper, in English. [Rhode Island]: 1852–66. 4to (20.7 cm, 8.1"). 25, [51] pp. (28 blank).
Click the interior image for an enlargement. 
Present at the back of the volume isa
list of “disabled men in Burillville [Rhode Island] July 1863”; a later, handwritten card with some information on Benjamin Cook and some of the pieces in this volume is laid in.
• Contemporary half sheep and marbled paper–covered sides; binding rubbed and worn, spine head pulled. Back (inside) hinge cracked. Leaves excised at both front and back of volume. Some light spotting and staining. (20849)
A Boy & His Dog
GO to SeaCupples, George. The deserted ship. A story of the Atlantic. Being adventures in the early life of Cupples Howe, mariner. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1881. 8vo. Frontis., 258 pp. 
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; binding cocked, with cloth rubbed over corners and spine extremities, back cover showing spots of discoloration. Sewing starting to loosen. One page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, and with an inked numeral. (13861)
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