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Gowlland, Gladys M. O.
Master of the Moving Sea: The Life of Captain Peter John Riber
Mathieson, from his Anecdotes, Manuscripts, Notes, Stories and Detailed
Records.
Edited by J. Ferrell Colton and Antoinette G. Smith. Drawings by Barton A.
Wright. Flagstaff, Arizona: J. F. Colton, 1959. 1st edition. 4to (large book).
304 pages. xxviii, 15 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Endpaper photographs.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn and torn dust jacket. #10823. $35
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Greene, Benjamin Franklin, editor.
The Magnetism of Ships, and the Deviation of the Compass: A
series of papers from the transactions of foreign societies.
By Poisson, G. B. Airy, Frederick John Evans, W. W. Rundell, with other papers
and documents. Reprinted, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, under the
direction of Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins. Edited, and the memoir of Poisson
translated, by B. Franklin Greene. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1867. Various paginations. U.S. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Navy Department, Bureau
of Navigation.
3/4 leather. Covers worn, some pages have folds, else Good. #12651. $220
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Griswold, F. Gray (Frank Gray).
The House Flags of the Merchants of New York, 1800-1860.
Norwood, Massachusetts: Privately Printed by the Plimpton Press, 1926. Small
8vo. 48 pages. Includes 6 pages of color illustrations of house flags.
Illustrations. Signed by the author.
Very good hardcover. Maroon cloth with gilt device and author's name on front
cover; top edge gilt; deckled front edge. #26656. $300
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Grobecker, Kurt, and Peter Neumann.
Sea Cloud: Legende unter Weissen Segeln.
Zum Geleit [von] Dina Merrill. Barsbuttel b. Hamburg: Verlagshaus Die Barque,
1986. 4to (large book). 159 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs and
illustrations. Front end pages sail plan of Sailing Yacht Sea Cloud ex Hussar with
English names; hull plan on rear end pages.
Text in German. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket.
ISBN 3892421021. #24653. $30
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