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(Alaska).

Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the first page: "Just a....

Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. ‘Just a shooting trip in Alaska’: Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of..... Read More about Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the...

Price: $6,000

Item #353959 The Story of George Crowninshield’s Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge on A Voyage of...

Crowninshield, Frances B.

The Story of George Crowninshield’s Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge on A Voyage of Pleasure to the Western Islands and the Mediterranean...

Boston: Privately Printed by the Merrymount Press, 1913. First edition, one of 500 copies. A handsome compilation of "facts and documents rather than a continuous and interrupted story" (preface). The account of the voyage itself was compiled from the log book, as well as letters and journals. [WITH:] An autograph..... Read More about The Story of George Crowninshield’s Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge on A Voyage of Pleasure to the...

Price: $250

[Hine, Thomas Avery, & Charles Gilbert HINE].

Log of the Totem. 1908 ... [1916].

[N.p., Newark or New York: 1908-1916]. First editions, each produced in very small number of copies. Delightful series of privately printed narratives of the sailing and crusing excursions of the Brothers Hine (Thomas, Charles, and Edward) in the Totem II, built in Brown’s shipyard at Tottenville, Staten Island. (The first..... Read More about Log of the Totem. 1908 ... [1916

Price: $3,500

Item #352542 Log of the Crescent. Record of a cruise on Biscayne Bay and across the Gulf Stream...

Hine, Thomas Avery.

Log of the Crescent. Record of a cruise on Biscayne Bay and across the Gulf Stream to Cat Cay and...

Newark, NJ: The Woodside Press, March 1900. One of seven copies printed, this no. 1 (from the tipped-in limitation leaf printed on blue paper). The author’s own copy with his name and address on front pastedown. NUMBER ONE OF SEVEN COPIES. Beautiful and whimsical private press work presenting an illustrated..... Read More about Log of the Crescent. Record of a cruise on Biscayne Bay and across the Gulf Stream to Cat Cay and...

Price: $6,000

MacAskill, Wallace R.

Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First Edition, No. 214C of 450 copies of the SECOND state, marked C for Canadian issue. A splendid collection of captioned sailing and nautical photographs of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, by the Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Halifax. Read More about Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures

Price: $750

Item #314608 Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures...With an Introduction by George Mathew...

MacAskill, Wallace R.

Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures...With an Introduction by George Mathew Adamds.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, no. 337 of 950 copies of the first state. Read More about Out of Halifax: A Collection of Sea Pictures...With an Introduction by George Mathew Adamds

Price: $750

Item #16461 “'Good Hope' notebook / 1954”. Yacht's log, mostly for 1956, together with ten...

Morison, Samuel Eliot.

“'Good Hope' notebook / 1954”. Yacht's log, mostly for 1956, together with ten pages of notes quoting and commenting on...

1954-56. Samuel Eliot Morison's Yachting Log and Historical Notes. A fascinating glimpse of Morison the historian at work, recording quotations and observations of the authors of the two books cited. Toward the end of this portion of the notebook, a number of pages have been removed--presumably for Morison's subsequent use--and..... Read More about “'Good Hope' notebook / 1954”. Yacht's log, mostly for 1956, together with ten pages of notes...

Price: $400

Smith, Gerald C.

All at Sea.

New York: Privately Printed for the Author, Christmas, 1939. First edition, one of 200 copies in Baskerville type on W & A All Rag paper by William E. Rudge's Sons, New York. "The adventures of the good ship Lancastria on a trip to the Bahamas," according to Bruns. Actually a...... Read More about All at Sea

Price: $200

Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First Edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. Derrydale Yachting Log, “Extremely Rare”--Frazier. An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to find. Siegel believes the low survival rate is due primarily to “a high rate of water-damaged copies” and the fact that those used as diaries..... Read More about Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone

Price: $1,500

Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to find. Siegel believes the low survival rate is due primarily to "a high rate of water-damaged copies" and the fact that those used as diaries have not come onto the..... Read More about Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone

Price: $1,500

Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First Edition, one of an indeterminate number of copies. An extraordinarily difficult Derrydale to find. Siegel believes the low survival rate is due primarily to “a high rate of water-damaged copies” and the fact that those used as diaries have not come onto the..... Read More about Yacht Racing Log. Foreword by Herbert L. Stone

Price: $1,500

(Yachting) Poor, Charles Lane.

Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design.

New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First edition, no. 143 of 950 copies. Read More about Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design

Price: $250