Sydney: Lester Townsend Publishing, [1986]. A Collector's limited edition, Copy #10, signed by James Hardy, Three times America's Cup skipper for Australia. Read More

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Read More

Fine sailing scene, two moored sailboats in the foreground with other moored boats visible against the shoreline behind.By Eugene V. Connett, Jr, father of the founder of the Derrydale Press, who was himself a keen sportsman and sailor.A pleasing image with choice American sporting provenance. Read More

Boston: M.H. Keenan, 1885. First edition thus. After serving on whalers for the better part of twenty years, Crapo found life ashore difficult. His fish market went out of business and with little to do, he turned his attention back to the sea, thinking that if he could cross the... Read More

[Liverpool: Turner and Dunnett], December, 1905. From the Introduction: "the information comprised in the following pages has been prepared for the use of Passengers traveling by the Cunard Hungarian-American Line from New York to the Mediterranean and Adriatic." Read More

[Norwood, Mass: Plimpton Press] Privately Printed, Christmas, 1912. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, dated 21 December 1912.Memoir of travel in east Asia by Gardner, whose family owned Roque Island, Maine, and who wrote a number of accounts of his yachting adventures in American and foreign waters. Read More

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1941. Edition of 250. Derrydale Yachting Prints. Gordon Grant’s fine yachting prints depict a sloop under sail (“The Weather Mark”) and a ketch under full sail (“Off Soundings”). Grant (1875-1962) “was considered America’s foremost marine artist when Eugene Connett commissioned him in 1941 to paint... Read More

New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1931. Limited edition, #31 of 47 copies on Crane's Old Book Paper, signed by the Author. Lively illustrations of life at sea toward the end of the era of full-masted schooners. Read More

London: Pickering & Co, 1879. First edition. "Lively and descriptive accounts" (Toy). The author recounts four voyages in the Ilma, Concordia, Princess and Mermaid, each boat larger than the last, in the years 1873-6. Read More

New York: The Photo-gravure Company & Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co, 1885. Uncommon. A lavishly illustrated account of the cruise through the gulf of Maine. The Ariel stopped at Scaco Pool, Biddeford, Booth Bay, North Haven, Mount Desert, Somerville, Penobscot Bay, the Kennebec, Portland and Portsmouth. The log was written... Read More

New York: Outing, 1898. First edition. Inscribed on the preliminary "To my fair cousin with compliments of the author..1900."Narrative of the cruise of the American Schooner-yacht "Yampa" owned by Richard Suydam Palmer in 1897 by a passenger and the Doctor on baord. Includes extensive visits to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Read More

New York: Thomas R. Knox & Co, 1885. First edition. "An ornately wordy account, filled with ironic humor, puns and amusing turns of phrase. Gives very detailed descriptions of soial conditions in the places visited" (Toy). Mcquade's account of the Montauk's cruise from New York to the Caribbean, which included... Read More