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MARITIME
Sailing Around
(Maine). Duncan,
Roger F. Eastward: A Maine cruise in a friendship sloop. Camden, ME: International
Marine Publishing Company, 1976. 8vo. Illus.
• Publisher's cloth. Very good condition, in a good dust jacket; some nicks along the lower edge of the jacket's near panel and head of the spine.
For
more inexpensive "PLACE"
On the
Adriatic, 1958Manuscript Travelogue. Manuscript on paper, in English. “Cruise to Greece...April 1958.” 1958. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). 164 pp. (73 blank).
• Contemporary oilcloth-covered wrappers, with some paper adhesions. All edges marbled. Pages clean.
Standard
& Ground
(or Wave?)-BreakingMedina,
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.
Racism & Insanity on the High Seas — The Nonesuch
Benito Cereno Melville, Herman. Benito Cereno. London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 8vo (31 cm, 12.25"). Frontis., [2], 122, [2] pp.; 6 col. plts.
Click the image for an enlargement. This is numbered copy 932 of 1650 printed on grey Van Gelder paper at the Curwen Press.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of prominent New Yorker E. Coster Wilmerding.
• BAL 13726; McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 36. Publisher's red cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in black-printed dust-wrapper; spine slightly sunned with extremities rubbed, dust-wrapper split and significantly chipped with most of spine paper lost. Provenance as above, and the volume clean. (28230)
Dime Novel: A Yachting Yarn New York Detective, A. The Bradys on deck or, the mystery of the private yacht. New York: Frank Tousey, 1914. Folio. 30, [2 (adv.)] pp.
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complete title story along with the prologue of “Drawer 99 or A detective's Six-Year Search” by Percy B. St. John, chapter III of “Ventriloquist Val or The Mystery of the Dark Room” by Tom Fox, thecomplete story “The Traitor's Doom” by Alexander Armstrong, and an assortment of jokes and odd news clips. (The ads present are their own enhancement.)
• Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers; spine and edges chewed with overall light soiling. Paper age-toned and actually rather good/strong, of its sort. (26936)
On Maps, Mapmakers, Geography of the Known World, & Star Gazing: 1681 Olmo, José Vicente de. Nueva descripcion del orbe de la tierra en que se trata de todas sus partes interiores y exteriores y circulos de la esphera y de la inteligencia uso y fabrica de los mapas y tablas geographicas assi universales y generales como particulares.... Valencia: Por Ioan Lorenço Cabrera, 1681. Folio (29.5 cm; 11,75"). [14] ff., 590 pp., [14] ff.
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Illustrated with numerous in-text woodcut maps, tables, diagrams, projections, and one volvelle.
A search of WorldCat locates only four copies in the U.S. and another of COPAC finds only the British Library copy.
• Palau 201032; Almirante, Bibliografia militar de España, 575. Early limp vellum, old author, title, and device inked on spine; recased and new endpapers supplied in front, with ties renewed. Added engraved title supplied in facsimile, so too the volvelle; interior tear without loss precisely along the outer edge of the text block on pp. 1/2, evidence of printer misjudgment in the impression. Old inked notes on inside of rear cover, and in a few other places; some instances of old, generally faint waterstaining or minor ink-accident; generally, a clean copy. (28466)
Seeking
theNorthwest
Passage,
1824–25
Parry,
William E. Journal of a third voyage for the
discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: performed in the years
1824–25, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Fury. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. 8vo.
(24.1 cm, 9.5"). Fold. map, 232 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The Journal was first published in London in 1826 and shortly followed by this first American edition. It includes a fold-out map showing Parry's route, in this case bound in upside down!
Provenance: Signature of “B. Rush McConnell, 1827.”
• Shoemaker 25670; Sabin 58867. On Parry, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XLIII, 392–93. Quarter cloth over paper with paper spine label, antique style. Map a bit tattered on the edges, affecting ruled border, and with closed tears repaired from rear; paper overall a bit brittle at gutter, and first leaves wanting to separate from binding. Lightly cockled with bumped corners; foxing and old damp-staining. A leaf of advertisements has been bound in at front. Ownership inscription on title-page. (4580)
Proposing
an“Alleghany–Susquehannah”
Connection
Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvements in the
Commonwealth. [drop title]
Philadelphia, Jan. 13, 1825. The subscribers, the acting committee of "the Pennsylvania
Society for the promotion of Internal Improvements in the Commonwealth," respectfully
submit the following address on the subject of a canal to connect the waters of
the Susquehannah with those of the Alleghany, to the consideration of their fellow
citizens. [Philadelphia: 1825]. 8vo (23.3 cm, 9.2"). 7, [1 (blank)] pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. • Shoemaker 21855. Later light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper title-label. Slightly age-toned, with small paper flaw to one outer margin, else clean.
Post-XYZ AffairPickering, Timothy. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report of the Secretary of State, containing observations on some of the documents, communicated by the President, on the eighteenth instant. 21st January, 1799. Ordered to lie on the table. Philadelphia: John Ward Fenno, 1798 [i.e., 1799]. 8vo (20.2 cm, 8"). [2], 45, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Evans 36546; ESTC W26008. Period-style quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. First two leaves with a bit of light spotting in margins, otherwise clean.
Fictitious Adventure “Bringing before Us the Incident &
Just as They Were” [Porter, William Ogilvie]. Sir Edward Seaward's narrative of his shipwreck, and consequent discovery of certain islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting events in his life, from the year 1733 to 1749, as written in his own diary. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1831. 8vo (17.9 cm, 7"). 3 vols. 239, [1] pp. (i.e., 234); [vii]-250, [2] pp. (i.e. 258); [vii]-236 pp. (i.e., 230).
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The presentation of slavery is also perhaps of particular interest here, the protagonist visiting slave markets and in fact buying and owning “negros” and “negresses” while at the same time apparently proceeding with every sincere intention of acting humanely within the inhuman system (neither justifying slavery and nor intending to, he yet strives to keep families together, he buys two boys with the intention of manumitting them after seven years, and interactions between him and his wife and people of color are notably respectful ”both ways”).
Provenance: Embossed library stamp of Pennsylvania's Deutsche Gesellschaft Bibliothek on the title-pages.
A
classic imaginary voyage and shipwreck.
• Sabin 64323; American Imprints 8810. On Jane Porter, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Period-style quarter sand colored cloth over blue-green paper boards, printed paper labels to spine. Tears on many leaves, and repairs on some, torn mostly in the lower gutter and outer margins; two or three corners in each volume torn away; old soiling and stains of various sorts. Pressure-stamp as above; pencil notations in a child's (?) hand in the margins of a few pages. (30134)
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