Various places: December 24, 1871 to September 4, 1872. South Pacific cruise and the beginning of diplomacy with... Read More about Illustrated manuscript logbook of the Pacific cruise of the U.S.S. Narragansett
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[Washington]: House of Representatives document 101, [1830]. A Radiating Marine Rail-way in Florida. Information and plans for the erection of a Radiating Marine Rail-way for the repair of sloops of war at the Navy Yard at Pensacola which includes the report from Loammi Baldwin addressed to Commodore John Rodgers, President..... Read More about Marine Rail-way, &c. Message from the President of the United States in reply to a Resolution...
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. First edition. Volume One is Bibliography, printed only on rectos. Read More about Statistical and Chronological History of the United States Navy 1775-1907
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London: Printed by T. Bentley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand and W. Miller, Albemarle Street, 1809. First Edition. Read More about The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from his Lordship's Manuscripts
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N.p. [France?]: [ca. 1806]. A French Naval Officer in the Age of Nelson. A detailed and comprehensive naval journal by a French naval officer during the Napoleonic era. The author (Philibert, according to a note on the pastedown), a highly literate and seasoned naval officer who saw action in the..... Read More about Autograph manuscript, “Remarques, nottes [sic] instructions, réflexions et souvenirs rélatifs...
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Coventry: Stevenograph Works, c 1875. Read More about The Death of Nelson
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1936]. Grant, Gordon. First edition, Number 60 of an unspecified number of The Limited Edition with an Original Drawing of Nicol on the half-title in red and black ink. WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING. Read More about The Life & Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, His Service in King's Ships in War & Peace,...
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N.p: ca. 1943]. Inscribed from Admiral Nimitz to Samuel Eliot Morison. A marvelous association inscription, inscribed during the war, reading: "Dec. 13, 1943. To. Lt. Comdr. S.E. Morison, USNR - with kindest regards and best wishes, CW Nimitz, Admiral US N." Morison was the official US Navy Historian of World War II..... Read More about Black-and-white photograph of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in uniform, addressing another soldier,...
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London: W. Johnston, 1762. First edition. Christopher O'Bryen was a Lieutenant in the Royal British Navy when he wrote this work, which is the English translation and adaptation of Paul Hoste’s L’Art des Armées Navales (Lyon, 1727), which is “a standard work on naval tactics” (NMM) This work is amply illustrated..... Read More about Naval Evolutions: or, A System of Sea-Discipline …
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Philadelphia: Feb. 7, 1799. A COLORFUL DESCRIPTION OF A "FISHTOWN" SAILOR. An entertaining affidavit of citizenship for a sailor from the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, now known as “Fishtown,” which was home to a large number of German immigrants in the 18th century, who made their living shad fishing on..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Affidavit of Citizenship, signed by "Robert Wharton Mayor of...
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Paris: Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes er Coloniales, 1925. Kerhor, Jean. Attractively bound copy of this miscellany of articles on French overseas expansion during the seventeenth and eighttenth centuries. Subjects include the pirate colony of New Normandie in the Caribbean; the pirate Dulaien; the exploration of the Marquesas; the last of..... Read More about Vieux Papiers du Temps des Isles. Ornés d'images d'autrefois et de seize dessins par Jean...
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Barcelona: Maucci, [n.d.]. Read More about Los piratas de las Bermudas … Versión Española de Francisco Javier Godo
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London: printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb against Katherine-Street in the Strand, 1747. First edition, with half-title. Read More about A Proposal for increasing the strength of the British Navy, by changing all the guns, from the...
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Washington, DC: 23 September 1903. Interestingly, the commission was to last, according to the autograph completion of the document, "until the end of the next session of the Senate," instead of simply "for the time being" as the printed portion states. Read More about Partly printed document, on vellum, promoting Winfield Scott Pugh, Jr. to Assistant Surgeon in...
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Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand. The Second Edition. Read More about An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily in .the Years 1718, 1719, and 1720,...
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London: M. Cooper, 1745. First Edition. Read More about Vice-Adm--l L-st-k [i.e. Vice-Admiral R. Lestock]’s account of the late Engagement near Toulon...
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London: Various publishers, 1745. Second edition (printed in the same year as the first). The Court-Martials of Mathews and Lestock. [BOUND WITH:] 2. [Lestock, Richard]. Vice-Adm--l L-st-k's Account of the Late Engagement near Toulon, between His Majesty's fleet and the fleets of France and Spain : as presented by him the..... Read More about A Narrative of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Fleet in the Mediterranean, and the combined...
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London: Printed for J. Almon and J. Debrett, 1781. First edition. Courts Martial of Keppel & Palliser, during the American Revolution. Written by Thomas Lewis O’Beirne (1748?-1823), the Anglican divine, whose first publication was the sermon he preached (“An excellent sermon preached in St. Paul's Church, New-York”, NY, 1776), as..... Read More about Considerations on the Principles of Naval Discipline, and Naval Courts-martial; In which the...
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London: for W. Webb, 1745. First edition. According to the DNB, "In December 1743 [Captain Savage] Mostyn was appointed to the Suffolk, which was, on 24 February 1744, one of the fleet with Sir John Norris off Dungeness. In April he was moved to the Hampton Court, one of four..... Read More about An Enquiry into the Conduct of Captain M[osty]N. Being remarks on the minutes of the...
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Ca.1590. 16th Century Manuscript List of Lord High Admirals of the British Fleet. A late 16th-century manuscript listing of Admirals and Lord High Admirals of the British fleet from the reigns of Edward II to Elizabeth I. The manuscript comprises 115 entries, each 6-10 lines in length with transcriptions of..... Read More about Admiralli Angliæ a tempore Edwardi Secundi an[n]o 1307 ad an[n]um D[o]m[in]i 1590
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