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Letters from Sarah Bulkeley Waterman. Ship Highflyer 1854-1855
Case, Lockwood & Brainard no date @1930's. Hardcover. Spine cover splitting and missing a piece at top. Octavo
34 pp "Immediately after her marriage to Gurdon Waterman in 1854 the author sailed for Europe on her husband's ship the Highflyer , a clipper ship of the Red Cross Line. Shortly after the last of these letters were written on Oct. 24, 1856, the Highflyer sailed for Hong Kong and was never thereafter heard from."
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20.00 USD
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Ashley, Clifford The Yankee Whaler.
Halcyon House 1942 Hardcover Good, some wear. Octavo
149 pp @50 photographs "contains hitherto unpublished matter, such as the log-book of the sloop Manufactor, the oldest whaling log in existence. Here is new light on those much-mooted points, the invention of the schooner and the breathing of the whales; and much whalemen's lore concerning methods of attack and the behavior of the quarry. Here are all the details of whaleship construction, rigging and navigation, gear and craft, and side-lights on the unique personalities of the whalemen from New Bedford, Nantucket, and Long Island ports. Here, in short, is the most detailed and superbly illustrated book on American whaling which has been ever been written."
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30.00 USD
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Bowen, Frank The Sea, Its History and Romance.
London Halton, Truscott and Smith : no date @1920's. Hardcover. Cover has some damage on both volumes. Text block is in good condition. Quarto
2 volumes only of 4. @ 300 pages each volume. Originally made in magazine form, rebound later with covers included at the back of each volume. Photographs of old illustrations throughout. Vol I covers nautical history up to about 1697. Vol II covers nautical history from 1698-1783.
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50.00 USD
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Carey, George edit. A Sailor's Songbag. An American Rebel in an English Prison 1777-1779.
University of Massachusetts Press 1976 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo
Octavo 164 pp "Timothy Connor and his mates--some seventy thousand Yankee privateers--leveled a remarkable weight of destruction on British shipping during the American Revolution. Unlike the enfeebled Continental Navy, these common seamen were, in Thomas Jefferson's words, " a national blessing". Connor's ship, the Rising States, was eventually captured at sea by the British H. M. S. Terrible in April 1777. Transported to Forton Prison, Portsmouth, Connor remained a "dam'd Rebel" prisoner for two years. During that time he kept a book of some fifty-six songs he heard or read."
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Collis, Maurice British merchant adventurers (Britain in pictures).
London W. Collins : 1942 Hardcover Good, some wear. Octavo
48 pp 8 color plates and 24 in black and white. Chapters include : Ralph Fitch: Merchant Traveller, India (1583-1611), Sir Thomas Roe: Merchant-Ambassador, India (1580-1644), Samuel White: Merchant-Interloper, India/South Seas (1650-1689), Robert Clive: Merchant-Soldier, India (1725-1774), Mungo Park: Merchant-Explorer, Africa (1771-1806), Thomas Stamford Raffles: Merchant-Administrator, Java (1781-1829).
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Cutler, Carl Greyhounds of the Sea. The Story of the American Clipper Ship.
Putnams 1930 First edition so stated. Blue cloth hardcover with gold gilt lettering. Some wear to cover. Light foxing on a few pages Quarto
592 pp Color, black and white photographs, designs throughout. In Appendix I can be found Ships, Measurements, Place and Date of Construction, Owner, Appendix II has Record Sailing Passages, Appendix III has List of 119 Voyages by Ships reported American, in the China-to-England trade between 1850 to 1860 inclusive, Appendix IV has California Voyages, Appendix V has log from Flying Cloud, Appendix VI has log from Andrew Jackson, Appendix VII has Ship ands Sail Plans from original models and plans
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