Newport News, Virginia: The Mariners' Museum, 1939. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. ix, [1], 90 pp. Green wraps printed in black. Illustrated by a frontispiece and several in-text illustrations, all photographs of the vessels discussed in the pamphlet. Replete with charts. Includes a bibliography. Publication number 5 from The Mariners Museum..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 2-470, [2] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, gold lettering on the spine. New edition with subsequent matter by the author. A Good or better copy with both hinges cracked and..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1929], 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], vii-xiv, [2], 3-314 pp. Bound in grey cloth with the title and the publisher blocked in navy cloth and embossed in gold lettering; grey topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Henry M. Shreve and by..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. (1974), 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], 5-270, [2] pp. Navy boards with gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Illustrated by several black and white photographs. The story of British naval expeditions, in part designed to harass Spanish ships off the..... More
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1921. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 11-127, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over grey paper boards, pictorial front board lettered in blue with decorations in white, black, and blue. Illustrated by a frontispiece and seventeen additional plates, photographs of where Nichols was born..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [3], 4-560 pp. Navy cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, later endpapers and pastedowns with the original front flyleaf present. Gilt decoration of a ship on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a...... More
Salem, Mass. Marine Research Society, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], 5-66, [2], [pagination followed by tens of photograph plates of sailing ships], [2] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue buckram-textured cloth, spine lettered in gold. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated by a watercolor frontispiece, several in-text illustrations and..... More