Search Results: Maritime/Ships/Sailing/Yachts/Naval from Singularity Rare & Fine

Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum , 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. Near Fine. See scans and description. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1967. Oak-framed whiteprint containing the plan, elevation and dimensions of the famous Rushton Canoe "Sairy Gamp", drawn, with the canoe on loan to the museum from the Smithsonian Institution, by O.E. Markkula. Outside frame dimensions are 24 3/4" x 18 3/4"; exposed area is 23 1/2" x 17 1/2". Print is glassed, framed, brownpapered on reverse, and wired for hanging. Near Fine, with no significant blemishes to print or framing; small area of stain at bottom left of print (see image), minor creasing to reverse brown papering, but no tears. Faint amount of age-toning to the whiteprint. Framing was executed in 1977. The Sairy Gamp, built in 1883, was the third of the five 'Rushton Canoes' - the Adirondack canoes built by J. Henry Rushton of Canton, NY for George Washington Sears. Sears was the noted… Read More

Greenwich, CT: Bison Books Inc., 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Jacket on Near Fine book. See scans and descriptions. Greenwich, CT: Bison Books Inc., 1982. First Edition; no indication of printing sequence on copyright page. Antony Preston's 'Aircraft Carriers' Quarto, illustrated jacket, navy blue buckram boards with gilt spine imprinting, navy blue endpapers, 64 pp. A Fine jacket on a Near Fine book, the latter being in fact immaculate but for the original owner's bookplate affixed to the ffep. See scans. A short but thoroughly illustrated history of the development of aircraft carriers, text by Preston. The non-glossy photographs are black and white through World War II; section entitled 'The Nuclear Age, toward the end, has color photos. Relatively scarce; for the genre collector. LG13

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [from engravings]. Very Near Fine; see scans and description. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926. First Edition. Illustrations from engravings, art and photographs. Octavo, 249 pp. Blue cloth with white imprinting on spine and cover, device on cover; map endpapers. A handsome Near Fine copy, showing only light sporadic peripheral wear. See scans. Certainly one of the finest available copies of the true first edition of Robert Peabody's tale of four ships named Grand Turk between 1781 and 1924. Historic and vibrant, a detailed account of U.S. sailing through that time period; China trade, privateering, coasting, etc., and with voyage lists. Thoroughly illustrated in black and white. - LT9

Monfalcone GO, Italy: Monte Carlo Yachts s.p.a. , 2012. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Monfalcone GO, Italy: Monte Carlo Yachts s.p.a., 2012: Catalog of yachts offered by the firm. Life styles of the rich, by any measure. Hefty, thick-ish quarto, textured stiff black perfect-bound wraps with gray MCY logo on front cover, unpaginated but 200+ pp. Fine; just trace of curl at top right front cover. Immaculate. See scans. A sumptuous catalog of unreservedly spectacular color photography throughout, from our friends at MCY. These are top professional photographers who deserve to be credited by name herein, but are not. Though, of course, what they are aiming at is not hard to look at. Yacht shots, interior shots, and composites; and plenty of these shots incorporating stunningly beautiful Italian models in the most expensive and lovely expressions of high fashion apparel - women who do belong on these luxuriant yachts. Every page of the 200+ pages within deserves… Read More

1935. Textured Boards. Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Various. [Place unknown, no publisher]. Portfolio of ship illustrations, circa 1935. Presumed private aggregation. Portfolio containing 7 matted ship illustrations. 14.5" x 11" portfolio and mats; plates vary but are generally 9.75" x 7.5" including margins. Textured brown boards with beige ribbon fasteners, off-white mats, color plates. Plates were probably excised from unknown nautical works of larger than octavo size, in early to mid 1900's. 7 Illustrations of older ships and ship parts, close-up of figureheads, etc. Condition: Light sunning to portfolio spine, tiny white paint speck to front board, a few rubbed spots, ribbon fasteners are crinkled, some toning to edges of mats; near fine plates in better than very good portfolio. LBB-D

New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good. See scans and description. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1966. First Edition. The Principles of Navigation, by E.W. Anderson. Octavo, medium blue cloth boards, gilt spine imprinting, xiv + 1 + 653 pp. No jacket. Very Good, but only due to some rear cover spotting, a modest amount of page-edge dust, and a faint "Property of U.S. Navy" stamp at bottom page edges. Otherwise, handsome, bright, and tight - handsome on the shelf, quite usable on the desk. Scholarly, well-illustrated - and highly-regarded - survey of all aspects of navigation, as of 1966, by Robertson. A genre collectible, often not as well preserved as this example is. See scans. L20n

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1927. First Edition & Limited, Numbered Ed. . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7 5/8" x 5 1/8. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1927. "The Old Oregon Country Edition", a signed first edition limited to 1,500 copies, of which this one bears the very low number of 4. Map frontis. 7 5/8" x 5 1/8", 263 pp. Textured Navy cloth with silver imprinting on spine and cover and silver cover illustration of "The Sea Otter"; map endpapers; full-color pictorial jacket. Sparkling copy, Near Fine - very near fine. Brightness of cover and imprinting, as well as hinge strength, nearly As New; moderate foxing at the endpapers are all that betray its age. Jacket is price-clipped, shows one spine chip, minor edgewear and light creasing toward bottom front, else is Very Good or better; quite bright. "A Romance For Youth", a swashbuckling nautical adventure by Conner, signed and numbered low (4) at the limitation page. Certainly one of the… Read More

Port Washington, WI: Port Publications, Inc., 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very Good; see scans and description. Port Washington, WI: Port Publications, Inc., 2015. The March, 2015 issue of Sailing - The Beauty of Sail. Large quarto, very nearly folio; photo-illustrated staple-bound wraps, 72 pp. Very Good; pre-printed subscriber's label, which has been whited-out, otherwise near fine, with no significant flaw. All the good stuff from the hobby of exhilaration. See scan of contents for topic details. LPR8

Ventura, CA: Pathfinder Publishing, 1989. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine; see scans and description. Ventura, CA: Pathfinder Publishing, 1989. 3rd Edition, Enlarged, of Shipwrecks, Smugglers and Maritime Mysteries. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 170 pp. Near Fine; has seen some consultation, and is not new; nonetheless, there are no salient flaws to point out. A worthy example of the popular compendium of Wheeler & Kallman, which was at this point in its third incarnation. Illustrated with photographs throughout. L80

New York: Friedman / Fairfax Publishers & Amber Books Ltd., 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. New York: Friedman / Fairfax Publishers (copyright holder: Amber Books Ltd.), 2000. First Edition / First Printing of Robert Jackson's 'Submarines of the World: 300 of the World's Greatest Submarines'. 16mo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 320 pp. Near Fine; in fact, no salient flaws whatsoever. See scans. An absorbing, nicely researched and illustrated reference on all the submarines most worth knowing about - 300 of them. Collectible first edition. LG8

London: Osprey / Reed, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New. London: Osprey / Reed, 1995. First Edition. Elite Series #60. Large octavo, illustrated wraps, 64 pp. As New. Flawless. In-uniform and other color plates by Darko Pavlovic will take you back, but there are plenty of vintage b&w photos as well. Collectible. L-30n