New York: Sea Cliff Editions, 1985. de Kooning, Elaine. First Edition, Number 29 of 120 copies, signed by both author and artist. Read More about Where the Blue Begins

London: sold by A. Manson, P. Denham, W. Robertson, and F. Nicholson, n.d. [ca. 1766-69?]. First edition. This Journal of the circumnavigation of the Dolphin in 1764-6 starts out as a seafaring account of travel from Plymouth to Madeira to Brazil, and the claiming of the Falkland Islands for the..... Read More about A Journal of a Voyage round the world, in His Majesty’s ship the Dolphin, commanded by the...

Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First edition. Clancy's first novel, INSCRIBED on the half title "To Vicki / with best wishes / Tom Clancy" Read More about The Hunt for Red October

New York: Doubleday McClure, 1900. First American edition, second state. First American edition of Conrad's great novel. At the time of publication, Doubleday & McClure were in the process of breaking up (into Doubleday Page, and McClure Philips), and there was some uncertainty as to which firm would inherit the..... Read More about Lord Jim

London: G. Robinson, J. Sewell, and J. Debrett, 1782. First edition. Cook's Third Voyage. First edition of this account of Cook's final voyage. "Ellis was a surgeon's mate during Cook's third voyage, first on the Discovery and later on the Resoultion, and gives quite a good history of this expedition..... Read More about An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's...

[Otsego Hall, Cooperstown: 1848]. Published: London, 29 March 1849 by Bentley (vol. III, pp. 195-6). Two and a half substantial paragraphs, beginning, “I’ll not answer for the craft, though that’s her blue peter …” and continuing to: “… as almost to persuade the expectant legatees that their visit was premature..... Read More about Autograph manuscript page: The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers

London: Published by James Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; and Joseph Robins, Jun. and Co. Ormond Quay, Dublin, 1826. First edition. A famous and popular early production of Cruikshank's, illustrating the nautical accounts of Matthew Henry Barker (1790-1846). The artist illustrated other of Barker's sea tales; in 1820..... Read More about Greenwich Hospital, A series of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. By...

Newburyport: Printed at Osborne’s Office, Market-Square, 1793. Margreta Dodge her book. An uncommon early American juvenile adaptation of the classic novel of shipwreck and self-reliance in adversity. ESTC reports only three locations. With a nice contemporary ownership signature at the back, “Margreta Dodge her book”. Read More about The Most Surprising Adventures and Wonderful Life of Robinson Crusoe

Cape Cod: ca. 1937. Candid photograph of O'Neill on the beach. This photograph was likely taken at Cape Cod in the spring of 1937 by New England photographer Alton H. "Blackie" Blackington, who took several other photographs of O'Neill with his wife Agnes Boulton, and daughter Oona on May 7th..... Read More about Eugene O'Neill photograph and autograph

London: Henry Colburn, 1844. Second edition. Admiral Dillon's Copy. The best account of the Opium War of 1839-1842 with a "complete" account of the colony of Hong Kong. The Nemesis was the first British ocean-going iron warship. Launched in 1839 for the East India Company, the British used her to..... Read More about Narrative of the Voyages and Services of The Nemesis from 1840 to 1843; and of the combined naval...

Philadelphia: 1224 Chesnut St, [1869]. First edition, variant issue in red cloth [also seen in green and blue cloth]. Rare [OCLC locates only three holdings, one of which is incomplete: Indiana University (two copies in variant color bindings); Virginia (incomplete)]. Read More about THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. A True Story [published anonymously

Saint-Paul, A.-M: Les Cahiers du Contadour, [n.d., 1939]. First edition in French, one of a very few copies printed. 'Je m'appelle Ishmaèl" — véritable édition originale de Moby Dick en français. The first notice of Moby Dick in French dates from the first volume of the Revue des Deux Mondes..... Read More about Moby Dick. Traduit de l’Américain par Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith et Jean Giono

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1849. First American edition, second printing (with advertisements extended). Read More about Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the...

Incredible Memento Of Peary's North Pole Expedition. This elaborately bound volume of guest autographs was commissioned for the yacht Sheelah, owned by millionaire industrialist Charles Ross (1848-1913). Originally from Scotland, Ross emigrated to North America in 1868 and built a fortune as a railway engineer, settling finally in Montreal. In..... Read More about Guest book of yacht Sheelah, signed by Robert E. Peary, 21 September 1909, upon his return from...

Boston: 1842. First edition. WITH A REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE US NAVY. Rockwell's time with the navy came by accident rather than by design: "passage to the Mediterranean ... had been granted him by the Secretary of the Navy, and as there was no Chaplain on board, he..... Read More about Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea; including a cruise on board a man-of-war, as also a...

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, 1823. First edition. William Scoresby jr (1789-1857) was the son of the famed Arctic explorer, William Scoresby (1760-1829) and learned to sail while accompanying his father on several of his voyages. That training was put to good use once he starting annual whaling..... Read More about Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on the...

Various places [Liverpool, Bombay, Singapore, Manila, etc.]: July 30, 1860 - April 26, 1863. The Last Log of the American Clipper "Typhoon" The extreme clipper ship "Typhoon"was built in 1851for the China trade by the firm of Fernald & Pettigrew of Portsmouth, NH. It was first launched in 1851 under..... Read More about Manuscript Log of the "Typhoon"

April 18, 1939. Read More about “Plage” Kristians Tonny. Nudes at the beach