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San Francisco Bay; a pictorial maritime history
by Kemble, John Haskell
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- 1957
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A$27.69
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New York: Bonanza Books, 1957. Hardcover. xv, 195p., 8.75x11 inches, endpaper maps, introduction, index, illustrated with b&w photos, a cheap reprint edition in black cloth boards with blue cloth backstrip and enclosed in the glossy dust jacket. Nice copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Item Price
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War Ships. Official United States Navy Photographs
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- 1942
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- Paperback
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A$30.76
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New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc, 1942. Paperback. Unpaginated, about thirty pages, 11x8.5 inch softbound, an oversize kids' book published at ten cents with fullcolor artwork for exterior covers, and monochrome blue and red illustrations (photographs, diagrams) throughout the simple text. Pulpy acidic paperstock, toned of course but better than fragile, edgewear and spotty foxing front and back to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The United States Navy Machinists' School / Metalworkers' School / Woodworkers' School. Class "A" - Group III
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- 1930
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- Pamphlet
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A$23.07
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Washington DC: Department of the Navy / Bureau of Navigation, 1930. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about twelve pages, profusely illustrated with captioned b&w site and activity photos. Softbound, a 9x6 inch pamphlet printed on glazed alkaline paperstock, covers a little foxed and crimped, staples rusting. A generally sound copy, clean within and free of any markings. Item Price
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![The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan; Second Series Vol. XIV, June 1937 [comprised of:] Materials on Japanese Social and Economic History/ Tokugawa Japan [Smith]; The Naval Campaign in the Korean War of Hideyoshi (1592-1598) [Sadler]; Shoku Nihongi IV-VI (Chronicles of Japan Continued) [Snellen, translator]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/947/176/1532176947.0.m.jpg)
The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan; Second Series Vol. XIV, June 1937 [comprised of:] Materials on Japanese Social and Economic History/ Tokugawa Japan [Smith]; The Naval Campaign in the Korean War of Hideyoshi (1592-1598) [Sadler]; Shoku Nihongi IV-VI (Chronicles of Japan Continued) [Snellen, translator]
by Smith, Neil Skene [and] A.L. Sadler [and] J.B. Snellen, contributors
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- 1937
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Tokyo: the society, 1937. Hardcover. 284p., first and longest entry is provided with 64 period line-drawings and a wonderful fold-out color plate of a street scene set as frontispiece; the lesser entries have considerably fewer illustrations. Hardbound journal in 8.5x6 inch cloth backed printed boards, covers worn a little dim with an inch long split to tail of joint… Read more about this item Item Price
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Galley Models. Suggestions for Decorative Galley Models of Simple Construction With Historical References. Experimental Edition. June 1, 1931. Issued from the Department of Practical Arts and Vocational Education
by Williams, Walter R.
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- 1931
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A$46.14
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Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 1931. Paperback. 41 ll., illustrations, diagrams, wraps. 10.75 x 8.5 in. Edges rubbed and covers slightly toned around edges. Printed rectos only. A mimeographed manual for the construction of historically accurate model galleys for enthusiastic hobbyists. Includes designs for "Egyptian, Roman, Viking, Moorish, French, and Chinese" varieties. The author was a student at a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Material Culture of Kapingamarangi
by Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter H. Buck)
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- 1938
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A$107.67
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Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1938. Paperback. v, 291p., softbound first edition, illustrated with line maps, profuse sketches and diagrams in-text. Presswork on heavy alkaline paperstock, making for a rather heavy paperback. A very good copy with trivial corner-tip turnings. Find ownership stamps of Frank M. LeBar, another ethnologist. As stated, very good condition: sound, clean, otherwise unmarked, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Southern Lau, Fiji: An Ethnography
by Thompson, Laura
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- 1940
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A$38.45
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Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1940. Paperback. 228p., plus a few additional photographic plates at the terminus, main body is illustrated with diagrams, tables, a folding genealogy and photos; softbound in 10x6.5 inch plain printed brown wraps. An ex-library copy with rubberstamp and a cancel stroke to cover, no other library or ownership marks, but expect a few dog-ears… Read more about this item Item Price
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Personal Reminiscences; Second Edition, Revised, to which is added Rambling Recollections Connected with China
by Forbes, Robert B.
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- 1882
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A$53.83
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1882. Hardcover. Poorish, but it contains all four original sepia photographs in good condition, and is also the more useful "second revised" edition; this second contains Forbes' additions to his mariner's life of experiences in China (a huge addition to text) and especially, on the opium war (we cannot say if Forbes was more… Read more about this item Item Price
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Boats and boatmen of Pakistan
by Greenhill, Basil. Foreword by Alan Villiers
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
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- 9780845311134
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A$18.46
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South Brunswick and New York: Great Albion books, 1971. Hardcover. 191p., frontis., profusely illustrated with plates & drawings, maps, mild wear on dust jacket, foxed top-edge, else good. Item Price
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Chaos and order in industry
by Cole, G.D.H.
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- 1920
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1920. Hardcover. 292p., 5x7.5 inch blue cloth boards; board edges and corners slightly bumped, ex-library with usual markings, spine somewhat sunned. Good only copy. Author was a member of the Fabian Society. Item Price
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Upriver Boats - When Red Bluff Was the Head of Navigation
by Zelinsky, Edward Galland, and Nancy Olmsted, authors
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- 1993
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no city, CA: underwritten by E.G. Zelinsky, 1993. Paperback. 40p., furnished with sixty rare period photographic images and softbound in 11x8.5 inch photo-decorated wraps. Covers show a little edgewear and crimping, title page bears an lengthy presentation by Zelinsky in his neat handwriting datelined 1993. A very good copy, otherwise unmarked, sound and clean. Reprinted from the journal "California… Read more about this item Item Price
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Colombo, ammiraglio del tenebroso oceano
by Bisso, Luisa, text. Flavio Bozzoili, design
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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- 9788805052615
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A$33.84
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Torino: Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1991. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 106p., comix panels in color throughout the item (emphasis on character of Columbus, structure of caravels), presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock hardbound in 11.5x9 inch laminated pictorial boards. Text in Italian. Endsheets provide maps of the transatlantic voyage, and of several Caribbean islands. Inscribed and signed on the titlepage by author… Read more about this item Item Price
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![The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore 1698-1701. Edited by Norman J.W. Thrower [texts; with] The Voyages of the Paramore: Maps [paired volumes, complete set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/188/567/1465567188.0.m.0.jpg)
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The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore 1698-1701. Edited by Norman J.W. Thrower [texts; with] The Voyages of the Paramore: Maps [paired volumes, complete set]
by Halley, Edmond, diarist. Norman J. W. Thrower, editor
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- 1981
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- 9780904180022
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A$61.52
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London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. Hardcover. 392p., maps (folded, smallish) and illustrations as called for, with pocketed maps (all three, folded, large) in a separate binding, each casebound item Hakluyt-style: medium-blue cloth boards gilt and blind, in dust jacket. Corner-tips slightly turned, light foxing to top edge of textblock, and rolling to the slim spine of the "portfolio", these… Read more about this item Item Price
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Further Selections from The Tragic History of the Sea - 1559-1565. Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559) Sao Paulo (1561) and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565) - Translated and edited from the Original Portuguese by C.R. Boxer
by Boxer, C.R., editor
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- 1968
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Cambridge: Published by the Hakluyt Society at the CUP, 1968. Hardcover. x, 170p., illustrations and plentiful maps, hardbound in Hakluyt's signature blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in the dust jacket. A handsome book in perfectly sound, clean and unmarked condition. The dust jacket has a mildly toned spine panel and a touch of top edge wear:… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ships of Christopher Columbus. With contributions by Francesco Quieto - Cesare Ciano. Translated into English by Lucio Bertolazzi and Luciano F. Farina
by Gay, Franco, Cesare Ciano. Francesco Quieto, Aldo Ziggiotto, contributors
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- 9788824037686
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A$69.21
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Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato / Libreria Dello Stato, 1992. Hardcover. Unblemished copy. 309p., hardbound in 12x8.5 inch decorated boards, text illustrated by numerous diagrams (how rudder was constructed; how the ballast stones looked) some large folded plans, mostly theoretical, how the Nina and Pinta et alia were made. Several diagrams are pictorial. FYI: spine titling of… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Scottish Sea Captain in Southeast Asia 1689-1723, edited by Michael Smithies
by Hamilton, Alexander
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- 1997
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- Paperback
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- 9789747100457
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A$30.76
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Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1997. Paperback. x, 206p., illustrated with old plates and cuts in facsimile, softbound, a paperback in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated glossy wraps, very good to fine condition, slightest signs of handling: a sound, clean and unmarked copy. Item Price
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The Southern Barbarians - The First Europeans in Japan
by Cooper, Michael, S.J., editor; Arimichi Ebisawa, Fernando G. Gutierrez, Diego Pacheco and the editor, contributors
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- 1971
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- 9780870111389
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Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1971. 216p., profuse b&w exhibit photography, with scattered colorphoto work, presswork on alkaline clay-coated paper and hardbound in 12x8.5 inch openweave dark blue cloth boards titled silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. Dj mildly edgeworn, cloth has a touch of dust-soil else perfectly clean, a sound unmarked copy. Item Price
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Inagural Address to the Students of the University of Glasgow, December 5, 1879
by Gladstone, Right Hon. W.E., lord rector of the university
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- 1879
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A$18.46
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London: John Murray, 1879. 40p., once sewn, now held in place (tenuously) by stab-hole tabs. Complete and, as of this writing, handleable and in order. Softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch plain printed wraps, the upper cover has collected marginal dust and a small smear, lower cover sheet the same but less so. Item Price
A$18.46
![Transportacion Maritima Mexicana: in the path of development [trade catalog/brochure]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/771/798/1321798771.0.m.jpg)
Transportacion Maritima Mexicana: in the path of development [trade catalog/brochure]
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- 1990
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Mexico City & San Pedro: Transportacion Maritima Mexicana, 1990. 16p., 8.5x11 inches, gatefold cover with color photo foldout of a cargo ship, texts in English, color photos, shipping route map, fleet list with color darwings of the ships and a table listing names, tonnage, cubic capacity and TEU, very good brochure on heavy glossy stock, color staple pictorialw raps.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Topolobampo: a new port in the Pacific Ocean
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- 1990
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Topolobampo: Puertos Mexicanas, Gobierno del Estado de Sinaloa, 1990. 32p., 8.5x11 inches, text in English, color photos, tables, services offers, gatefold map, very good brochure on glossy heavy stock in stapled color pictorial wraps. Advertisement for the new shipping port on the West Coast of Sinaloa. Item Price
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