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Dampier, William.
A New Voyage Round the World.
Introduction by Sir Albert Gray. Edited by N. M. (Norman Mosley) Penzer.
London: Argonaut Press, 1927. Copy 900 of an edition limited to 975 copies.
xxxvii, 376 pages. Index. Facsimile reprint of the 1729 edition. Includes
reproductions of the title pages of the 1st and 7th editions.
Voyages around the world, early history of buccaneers, and description and
travel of Latin America. Small 4to (medium-large book). Very good hardcover.
Vellum backstrip stamped in gilt, burgundy cloth over boards, pictorial rondo
in gilt on front board. Vignette on title page in blue and black. Printed on
Japon vellum with deckle fore & lower edges. All pages unopened. Four maps,
three folding, bound in. Lower front and rear corners bumped, rear board
scuffed. #28234. $90
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Davis, Charles G., Drawings and Text.
Shipping & Craft in Silhouette.
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1929. Small 4to (medium-large
book). 8, [102 pages with a silhouette and explanatory text, with blank
versos], [5 pages Index]. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Marine Research Society
Publication 20.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn, chipped and frayed dust jacket. Upper
corners of plates 74-77 have newspaper brown burn marks, not affecting
illustrations or text. #23134. $35
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Dean, F. E.
Modern Ships.
London: Temple Press, 1953. 2d edition. Square small 8vo (regular size). 90
pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Frontispiece. Boys's 'Power and Speed'
Library. First published in 1949.
Good hardcover. Small name stamp inside front cover and on blank flyleaf.
#20510. $10
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Dean, Nicholas.
Snow Squall: The last American Clipper Ship.
Expedition accounts by David C. Switzer. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 2001.
1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). xvi, 301 pages. Index.
Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Plans and Lines.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0884482316. #27411.
$20
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Devine, Eric, editor.
Blow the Man Down: The Yachtsman's Reader.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. 1st edition. 334 pages.
An anthology of fictional and true sea stories. Good hardcover, spine sunned.
#10963. $7.50
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Druett, Joan.
Captain's Daughter, Coasterman's Wife: Carrie Hubbard Davis of
Orient.
Orient, New York: Oysterponds Historical Society, 1995. 63 pages. Photographs.
Illustrations. Map.
'Carrie Davis, daughter of Captain William Hubbard and wife of coasterman
Charlie Davis, sailed across Long Island Sound to Connecticut and back on the
Orient schooner Jacob S. Ellis, keeping house in the cabin and attending church
in port.' - Rear cover. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover).
#27912. $15
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Druett, Joan.
Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains under Sail.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 1st printing. 274 pages. Index. Bibliography.
Photographs. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0684839687. #25772.
$20
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Druett, Joan.
The Sailing Circle: 19th Century Seafaring Women from New York.
Introduction by Lisa Norling. Foreword by Michele M. Morrisson and Ann M. Gill.
Long Island, New York: Three Village Historical Society and Cold Spring Harbor
Whaling Museum, 1995. 4to (large book). 46 pages. Index. Bibliography. Color
and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Three Village Historian
Volume XXXVI. Includes: Mary Anne Wallace, 'The Merchant Wives of New York:
Long Island Coasting Women;' Joan Druett, 'Blue-Water Merchant Wives,' and her
'Petticoat Whalers of Long Island'.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), edges and corners slightly
rubbed. ISBN 0963636111. #26837. $30
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Drummond, John D.
A River Runs to War.
London: Allen, 1960. 1st edition. Large 8vo. 208 pages. Photographs.
Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #13693. $27.50
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Duff, Peter.
British Ships and Shipping: A Survey of Modern Ship Design and
Shipping Practice.
Foreword by Colin S. Anderson. London: George G. Harrap, 1949. 1st edition. 240
pages. Index. Photographs. The author was Shipping Editor of 'The Shipping
World'.
Good hardcover, foxing throughout. #25795. $25
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Dunne, W. M. P. (William Matthew
Patrick).
Thomas F. McManus and the American Fishing Schooners: An
Irish-American Success Story.
Foreword by Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr. Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport
Museum, 1994. Square small 4to (medium-large book). x, 406 pages. Index.
Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Inscribed, dated and signed on the title page
by the author. American Maritime Library, 14. Appendices: 1. Schooners Possibly
Designed by Thomas F. McManus, Including Those Known or Claimed to be Built
'off' His Plans. 2. A Guide to Fishing Schooner Designs by Several Naval
Architects. 3. A Summary of the American and International Fishermen's Races.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn, chipped and stained dust jacket.
Unrelated small gift inscription inside front cover. ISBN 0913372692.
#24370. $55
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