MARITIME[Embracing the Riparian]
MARITIME
Nautically Correct!
Falconer, William. The shipwreck. London: John Sharpe (pr. by C. Whittingham Chiswick), 1822. 12mo. Add. engr. t.-p., 167, [1] pp.; 5 plts.
Single-click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2F1364 (Imprint 9). Contemporary embossed calf framed in gilt-stamped border, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative motifs; edges and extremities rubbed, with some of the raised portions of the leather lightened. Pages with a very few instances of pencilled marginalia; plates moderately foxed, with mild foxing to leaves immediately surrounding plates. (10621)
Early DESALINIZATION
for SailorsFitzgerald, Robert. Salt-water sweetned; or, a true account of the great advantages of this new invention both by sea and by land: Together with a full and satisfactory answer to all apparent difficulties.... London: Will. Cademan, 1683. 4to (19 cm, 7.45"). π1A2B4C3; [2], 17, [1] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • ESTC R7382; Wing (rev.) F1087; Goldsmiths’-Kress 2518.0-2 suppl. Sewn, with spine and inner margins reinforced some time ago; now laid into a case of quarter morocco over cloth-covered boards. Pages age-toned, with small edge nicks; outer and upper edges trimmed closely, in some cases touching pagination. This collation, including the absence of C4, matches that reported by ESTC.
A
Great Series of Song Titles . . . Four favourite comic songs. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?].
12mo. 8 pp. 
“The Cork Leg and Steam Arm. / The Great Sea Snake. / The Sailor's Consolation. /
The Wonderful Nose” — a woodcut vignette shows a young man dancing with one arm raised and “[No.] 28” printed at
the foot.
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. (16763)
A Rich Anthology
Nicely Printed Frothingham, Robert. Songs of the sea and sailors' chanteys: an anthology selected and arranged by Robert Frothingham. N.p.: Houghton Mifflin Company (Cambridge: The Riverside Press), 1924. 16mo. xxii, [2], 288 pp.
• Publisher's quarter cloth over green paper boards; paper title label on spine. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. Paper covers with some old minor scrapes and finger marks; VG. (19462)
Careful Scholarship — Handsome Limited Edition 
Harrisse, Henry. Americus Vespuccius: a critical and documentary review of two recent English books concerning that navigator. London: B. F. Stevens (Chiswick Press), 1895. 8vo. Frontis., 72 pp., [6] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. The present item includes a colored frontispiece of the coat of arms of Balthasar Sprenger, “the real author of the alleged Vespuccian voyage from Lisbon to India 1505–6,” with the accompanying tissue guard — the account long having been misattributed by historians to Vespucci himself.
Handsomely printed at the Chiswick Press. Limited to 250 numbered copies (this is copy no. 236).
• Quarter white vellum, lettered in gilt on the spine, single-rule gilt frame on front and back covers. Covers bumped at lower corners and darkened along edges; head of spine with scrape and ink blot. Dark offsetting on endpapers; otherwise, pages clean. Top edge gilt, others uncut. (21272)
This
Is anAppealing Little
Volume!
Hennequin, P.P. Voyages et aventures d'un jeune marin. Paris: Belin le Prieur (pr. by de Fain), 1835. 8vo. Frontis., [4], 338, [2] pp.; 2 plts. 
• Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped decorative
motifs and gilt-stamped leather title label. Front pastedown with bookseller's
ticket. Light waterstaining to lower inner margins of first and last sections
(you can see the degree of this, at left), pages otherwise generally clean.
A
charming gift for a French speaker with maritime interests!
(9091)
A Different Kind of Floral Offering — “Ocean Flowers” Howard, Mary. Ocean flowers and their teachings. Bath: Binns & Goodwin; London: Whittaker & Co.; Edinburgh: Johnstone; Dublin: W. Curry Jr. & Co., [1846]. 8vo. Frontis., t.-p., iv, 146, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 38 specimen plts.
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38 leaves of mounted specimens as well as a floral arrangement frontispiece composed of different types of seaweed. Howard, author of Wild Flowers and Their Teachings, here provides practical, descriptive quotations and scientific excerpts alongside poetry inspired by or mentioning various types of seaweed.
Provenance: Ownership inscription of Anthonia Noël Streatfield.
• NSTC 2H33105. Publisher's red morocco, covers framed in gilt, seashell and seaweed vignettes gilt-stamped on covers and spin, gilt inner dentelles; binding cocked but strong, with some rubbing and darkening. All edges gilt. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1911; half-title with affixed newspaper clipping depicting grasses; title-page with shadows of pencilled annotations regarding date and index. Occasional foxing, including frontispiece and title-page. Specimens mostly in very good condition, with occasional cracking and offsetting; some but not all with tissue guards. An elegant and informative work for the parlor naturalist, and, now, for the historian of science additionally — a sound and pleasant copy. (22022)
Russia & the U.S. — Navigation & CommerceJackson, Andrew (President, 1829–1837). [drop-title] Treaty between the United States and the Emperor of Russia. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of a treaty of navigation and commerce between the United States and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. May 14, 1834. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. [Washington]: Gales & Seaton, printers, 1834. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). 10 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. This is the first printing of the first treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and Russia; the only prior convention between the two nations was the convention of 1824 concerning the Pacific Northwest. This treaty establishes
and confirms reciprocal trade, and commercial and navigation rights to vessels of both countries, and also applies the same rights to the
kingdom of Poland.
Government document: 23d Congress, 1st Session. Doc. No. 415. Ho. of Reps. Executive.
• Recent paper wrappers. Title-page with inked numeral in upper margin. Light spotting.
The
“Laws of the Sea”
at a Time When
England Was!
the
Law on the Seas
Jacobsen, Friedrich Johann. Laws of the sea, with reference to maritime commerce during peace and war. Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, (J. Robinson, printer), 1818. 8vo (22 cm; 8.75"). xxxv, [1], 636 pp.
Published at a critical period in America's commercial history, this work presents the then prevailing international law on such matters as shipwreck, salvage, abandonment, blockages, embargoes, delivery, demurrage, and neutrality, to mention just a few topics.
A Dry Dock for Washington?Jefferson,
Thomas (President, 1801–1809). Message from the President of the United States, transmitting plans and estimates of a dry dock, for the preservation of our ships of war. 28th December, 1802. Referred to the Committee appointed on the 17th instant, on so much of the Message of the President of the United States, as relates to our navy yards, and the building of docks. Washington City: Pr. by William Duane & Son, 1802. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). 25 pp. 
Benjamin Henry Latrobe on the subject of constructing a dry dock in the city of Washington, and two
additional letters. P. 19 is a folding table (verso blank).
Click the image for an enlargement. • Shaw & Shoemaker 3361. Recent paper wrappers. Title-page darkened, with small chip at upper margin, two short tears at lower margin, and an early inked annotation. Short edge tears to some outer margins, not touching text. Outer edge untrimmed, bottom edge unevenly trimmed.
SO SAD! Jemmy &
Nancy of Yarmouth; or the constant lovers: A tragical ballad.
Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1835?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Page edges slightly darkened, otherwise clean. (16757)
“In Search of ” — A Brave & Sad AccountKane, Elisha Kent. Arctic explorations: The second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ’55. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., 464 pp.; 1 fold. map. , 11 plts., illus. II: Frontis., add. engr. t.p., 467, [1] pp.; 1 fold. map, 1 map, 7 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. As described by the title-pages, the volumes are “Illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from sketches by the author. The steel plates executed [by J. Hamilton and others] under the superintendence of J.M. Butler, the wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder.” The plates total 20 altogether, including frontispieces.
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By anEye-Witness to the Action Knowles, Charles. An account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations. London: M. Cooper, 1743. 8vo (20 cm, 7.99"). [2] ff., 58 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. The Appendix here provides a fairly comprehensive exposition of the enemy's defensive position at the time of the English arrival, while the main body describes ship movements and land fortifications in detail.
• ESTC T18830; Sabin 11128; Alden & Landis 743/1. On Knowles, see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Recent half calf with paper-covered sides; spine with gilt-stamped title. A clean and very good copy. (24824)
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