AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, ZUBDAT UL AKHBAR AL MUTA'ALLIQA BIL BIHAR. ON HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN MARINEAND CAPTAINS by SHEHRI ZADE (SEHRIZADE) ABD UL ALIM IBN MEHMET SAID (D. 1736 AD.) - 1748

England: Siebe, Gorman, & Co. LTD Cwmbran, Gwent. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition #64 of 1500 copies. Bright blue clean cloth has bright gilt titles on spines & front covers. Text's are tight, clean and intact. Profusely illustrated with B/W photographs & drawings. Part 1 impression of underwater activity fold out. Part 2 has a color fold out map at rear of text. NF dust jackets have protected the texts well. NF Sip case. In those days the divers dress weighed nearly 200 pounds out of water. Dressing the diver. Physics and Physiology of deep diving. Diving for treasure. Salvage of sunken ships. Nautical, Diving, Submarine ; B/w Photograph Illustrations; 8vo; 690 pages .

Somers Point: Wm. A. Haffert, 1914. First Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. (44)pp; illus throughout from photographs, mostly full-page. Views include: Shore Road, Looking North from New Jersey Avenue; Somers' Homestead; Jane Anderson Homestead; Angler's Club; New $250,000 Auto Bridge to Ocean City; Somers Point Fire Company; Wyndgale Residence; Bungalow of Miss Elizabeth Steen; Schick's Hotel; many private residences on Shore Road, Annie Avenue, Maryland Avenue, Cedar Ave, etc.; &c. Printed yellow wrappers. 5" x 8" 6. [WorldCat locates only the Rutgers U holding of this interesting viewbook.].

Paris: Chez Everat A good copy of this scarce work in contemporary half leather binding. Undated but 1798. Imagines the continuation of La Perouse's voyage after Botany Bay, describing his death, and the discovery of an island peopled by French escapees from the Revolution. This copy has a red leather spine with gilt compartments and gilt titles. The boards and endpapers are marbled. The spine has a little wear at the bottom and the boards have wear to edges. Internally the endpapers are marbled. Contents: title page, text 397pp plus errata 2pp. The original page marker is present. The paper is very brown-toned to around p300 and more lightly toned with occasional light marking to the end of the work. Otherwise in good clean condition.

Egypt: Maktab ut Tobjiyya (the artillery press), 1834 Book. As New. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ONE OF THE MOST RARE PRINTING OFFICES IN THE EARLY PRINTING HISTORY IN EGYPTE AFTER THE FRENCH PRESS, MAKTAB AL TOPJIYYA (artillery office) WIHICH ESTABLISHED BY MUHAMMED ALI PASHA FOR MILITARY PRESS. THIS IS THE SECOND AND THE MOST RARE ED. IN 1250AH. AFTER THE FIRST BEFORE FEW YEARS IN MALTA. 143PP OF FULL ARABIC TEXT. MODERN FULL LEATHER DARK GREEN BINDING WITH FINE ORIENTAL DECORATIONS. SCARCE..

(Copenhagen, DMI, 1893-1930). Small folio. The issues 1893-1915 are all bound with all the original printed wrappers (stating that they are off-prints) for every issue (except for the front wrapper for the first issue) in four near contemporary blue half cloth bindings with gilt titles and years to spine. The issues 1916-1930 are all present in the original printed wrappers and housed in three custom-made slipcases identical to the four preceding volumes. Ste back wrapper of the 1924-issue is loose. Otherwise the set is generally in excellent condition, with stamps from the Danish Meteorological Institute, in the holdings of which it has been until the present day. With numerous charts and maps throughout. Scarce run of the important first Arctic Sea Ice Charts from the Danish Meteorological Institute, all in off-prints from the Meteorological Year Books of Danish Meteorological Institute, constituting a continuous run, from its very beginning in 1893, of the first 38 years. These earliest Arctic… Read More

Albany, N. Y.: State of New York. Very Good. 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes, first editions. Rebound in clean green buckram cloth with bright gilt titles on both spines. Interior of texts are tight & intact. Hand written margin notes of a few pages. Light foxing throughout. Tissue protected illustrations. Volume #1, frontis, a view of the Canal entrance into the Hudson; view Black Rock Village; view of the Rochester Aqueduct Bridge; View of Little Falls. Maps: Ontario & Oneida Lakes, Swego Dock. Foldout Maps: Niagara River, Oswego River, Genesee River, Gerundegut Embankment. 614pp. Volume #2, Frontispiece a large fold out map of the Champlain Canal. Official Documents, Relating to the Erie and Champlain Canals, Passed February 8, 1825. 666pp. Very light foxing. Prior owners signature and date of rebinding. Canals; Views and Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1280 pages .

Egypt: Maktab ut Tobjiyya (the artillery press), 1834 Book. As New. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ONE OF THE MOST RARE PRINTING OFFICES IN THE EARLY PRINTING HISTORY IN EGYPTE AFTER THE FRENCH PRESS, MAKTAB AL TOPJIYYA (artillery office) WIHICH ESTABLISHED BY MUHAMMED ALI PASHA FOR MILITARY PRESS. THIS IS THE SECOND AND THE MOST RARE ED. IN 1250AH. AFTER THE FIRST BEFORE FEW YEARS IN MALTA. 143PP OF FULL ARABIC TEXT. MODERN FULL LEATHER DARK GREEN BINDING WITH FINE ORIENTAL DECORATIONS. SCARCE..

1637. Prima edizione del 1637 di questo trattato di diritto marittimo dello storiografo, filologo e pensatore politico danese Joannes Isaac Pontanus (1571-1639), discepolo dell'astronomo Thyco Brahe. Pontano si trasferì prima in Francia poi in Olanda dove percepì il clima politica culturale che portò all'elaborazione delle teorie di diritto internazionale espresse in quest'opera, una vivace confutazione delle teorie sul mare chiuso di John Selden. In appendice il testo dedicato alla navigazione "De Ophyra" di Gaspar Barreiros (m. 1574) e "Problemata nautica" di Bartholomaus Keckermann (1573-1609). Alcune incisioni all'interno. Timbro al verso del frontespizio di biblioteca tedesca privata "Bibliothek Mecklenburgh Ritter Landschaft". In ottime condizioni e completo. Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni.… Read More

Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011-06-13. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Lovely copy. Text and photos are clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket is clean, very light edge/shelf wear. No rips, tears or stains. Binding is VG, solid, square. First edition. Pen and Sword Maritime (June 13, 2011). Cruise Ships: The World's Most Luxurious Vessels. Ships in box quickly and with care.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, half title, hand coloured portrait frontispiece, plan of raft cleaned with light stain, occasional light staining throughout, rebound, new endpapers, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, 8vo, London, Henry Colburn, 1818"Of one hundred and fifty persons embarked upon the raft, and left to their fate, only fifteen remained alive thirteen days afterwards; but of these fifteen, so miraculously saved, life constituted the sole possessions, being literally stripped of everything."A first hand account of when 147 men, abandoned on a makeshift raft after their ship ran aground off the coast of africa. There followed murder, class warfare, mutiny, starvation, unimaginable depravity and eventually cannabalism. In June 1816, the French Frigate, The Medusa, and three other ships sailed for the French colony of Senegal in West Africa. An inexperienced captain would run the ship aground and a shortage of lifeboats meant that only the upper classes and senior officers would be allowed… Read More