London: James Cochrane and Co, 1835. First edition. "War of the Two-Brothers," with a contemporary letter of Admiral Sartorius. First edition of this lively first-hand account of events in Portugal in 1834 during the so-called "War of the Two-Brothers." The author James Alexander is perhaps best known nowadays as having..... Read More about Sketches in Portugal, during the Civil War of 1834 ... with Observations on the Present and...

Annapolis, Md: The Unied States Naval Institute, 1920. First edition. Inscribed on ffep: "Christmas 1958. To my grandson John Walton Curley from John F. Walton Jr Ensign U.S.N.R.F. U.S.S. Canandaigua of the Yankee Mining Squadron World War I." Read More about The Yankee Mining Squadron or Laying the North Sea Mine Barrage

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Second Edition. MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL BOWDITCH. Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer and mathematician, and author of "The New American Practical Navigator" was the most important author to American sea captains Inscription on ffep: "James R Stanwood from Miss E.S. Quincy. Quincy, Massachusetts: 18th October..... Read More about Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son

New York: Isaac Collins & Son for Abraham and Arthur Stansbury, 1802. First Edition. The first American treatise on commercial law and on Admiralty Law, with an emphasis on shipping. Caines was the first official case reporter in the United States, recording decisions of the New York Court of Appeals..... Read More about An Enquiry Into the Law Merchant of the United States; Or, Lex Mercatoria Americana, on Several...

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1886. Mcvickar. First edition. An unusual item with a very handsome cover. Read More about Blue Jackets of ’61. A History of the Navy in the War of Secession

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. First American edition. Read More about The Two Admirals. A Tale

[England]: [c. 1800]. Superb hilltop view of the old port in this village in North Devon, showing several large frigates anchored in the bay, sloops moored in the harbor, cattle grazing on the slopes, sea and sky in the distance. Read More about Port Scene, Ilfracombe, Devon, England

(Glasgow, Scotland): [William Armstrong Fairburn Manuscript Notebook/ Glasgow University], (1896 - 1897). Original manuscript; naval architect and author William Armstrong Fairburn's lecture notes (in Fairburn's ink holograph, with interleaved original charts and graphs), when he was a student (studying naval architecture) at Glasgow University (1896-1897), specially bound for W. A...... Read More about LECTURES: 1896-1897. W[illiam] A[rmstrong] FAIRBURN/ GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. [Lecture notes, in ink...

New York: Henry Holt, [1928]. First edition. 235 of 320 copies printed on rag laid paper and specially bound, signed by the author and illustrator and inscribed to Charles B. Driscoll, with quote added. Inscribed on half-title "For William Griffith, man of elegant, temperate refinement who may have chummed with..... Read More about Heroes from Hakluyt

R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth at Sea: Jan, 19, 1948. Captain of the Queen Elizabeth. Read More about Autograph Note Signed to LIFE photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, "Mr Alfred Eisenstaedt stood...

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1895. Sixth edition. Read More about The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812

Troy, N. Y: From the Press of N. Tuttle, 1845. First edition thus, third edition (enlarged) [Ferguson No. 4033]; 1845 enlarged edition (with 78 pages of text) [originally published in 1843 as an eight-page address, entitled 'A Reply to clerical opposition; or Washingtonian societies defended on scripture grounds in an..... Read More about The Disenthralled: Being Reminiscences in the Life of the Author; His Fall From Respectability,...

[London]: January 27, 1757. Court Martial of Capt. Thomas Graves, 1757: Manuscript Verdict. Remarkable record of a critical moment in the early career of one of the Britain's most famous naval officers, Sir Thomas Graves (1725-1802), who subsequently served as Governor of Newfoundland from 1761-1764, and, during the American Revolution..... Read More about Manuscript Document entitled "The Previous Questions of the Court" giving the Court's...