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Petersen, Kaare. The Saga of Norwegian Shipping. An Outline of the History, Growth and Development of a Modern Merchant Marine. Oslo: Dreyers Forlag, 1955. 4to (large book). 239 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Portrait. Decorated tooled leatherette. Edges worn, else very good. #16008. $20
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Quick, Herbert and Edward. Mississippi Steamboatin': A History of Steamboating on the Mississippi and Its Tributaries. New York: Holt, 1926. 342 pages. Illustrations. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, slightly rubbed and worn. #11282. $20
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Reminick, Gerald. Nightmare in Bari: The World War II Liberty Ship Poison Gas Disaster and Cover-Up. Palo Alto: Glencannon Press, 2001. 1st edition, 1st printing. 266 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. The December 2, 1943 attack by the German Luftwaffe on about fifty ships waiting to unload their cargoes in Bari Harbor, Italy. One of the ships, a Liberty ship laden with a top-secret cargo of mustard gas bombs, received a direct hit and exploded, killing the entire crew and spreading its deadly toxic cargo across the water and through the air of Bari. - Rear cover. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers. ISBN 1889901210. #28490. $35
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Reminick, Gerald. Patriots and Heroes: True Stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. Palo Alto, California: Glencannon Press, 2000. xxii, 260 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Dated, inscribed and signed by the author. ISBN 1889901148. #28492. $35
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Robert, Derek. "Look at Me Now": A Sailor in the South Pacific. A Book of Travel in Australia and the Islands of the South Pacific. London: Hamilton, 1963. 1st edition. 198 pages. Endpaper maps. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #11330. $12.50
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Rowland, K. T. Steam at Sea: A History of Steam Navigation. New York: Praeger, 1970. 240 pages. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. #12979. $22.50
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Tomlinson, H. M. The Sea and The Jungle: Begin the Narrative of the Voyage of The Tramp Steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria De Belem Do Grao Para in the Brazils, and Thence 2,000 Miles along the Forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; Afterwards Returning to Barbados for Orders, and Going by Way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, Where She Loaded for Home. Done in the Years 1909 and 1910. Woodcuts by Clare Leighton. New York: Harper, 1930. Copy 243 of a limited edition of 325. Signed by Tomlinson. xvii, 333 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Good hardcover. Spine sunned. Partially removed bookplate on front free endpaper. In worn original slipcase, lacking top panel. #21387. $75
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Tomlinson, H. M. The Sea and The Jungle: Begin the Narrative of the Voyage of The Tramp Steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria De Belem Do Grao Para in the Brazils, and Thence 2,000 Miles along the Forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; Afterwards Returning to Barbados for Orders, and Going by Way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, Where She Loaded for Home. Done in the Years 1909 and 1910. Woodcuts by Clare Leighton. New York: Harper, 1930. xvii, 333 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Good hardcover binding in chipped, worn and torn dust jacket. #11716. $45
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Tyler, David Budlong. Steam Conquers the Atlantic. New York: Appleton-Century, 1939. 1st edition. xv, 425 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Plans. Folding map. History of steam beginning in 1819 with the paddle-wheeler Savannah. Cloth hardcover. Good. Front hinge weak, covers slightly worn and soiled. Few pages soiled. #11757. $27.50
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United Nations. Laws Concerning the Nationality of Ships. New York: United Nations, 1955. 203 pages. U.N. Legislative Series. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #13298. $27.50
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United States. Forty-Eighth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with Official Numbers and Signal Letters, and Lists of Vessels Belonging to the United States Government with Distinguishing Signals. For the Year Ended June 30, 1916. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917. Square 8vo. viii, 484 pages. Issued by the Bureau of Navigation, Department of Commerce. Separate chapters on Sailing, Steam, Motor, Unrigged, Navy, Treasury Department, Department of Commerce, Department of Labor, and Interior Department vessels, and vessels owned and employed by the Panama Canal or the Panama Railroad Company. Good hardcover, front cover stained, internally very good. #26519. $110
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United States. Merchant Vessels of the United States 1945. Including Yachts and Certain Government Vessels. January 1, 1945. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945. Oblong 4to (medium-large book). 786 pages. Issued by the Treasury Department, Bureau of Customs. Separate chapters on Sailing, Steam, Motor, and Unrigged Merchant vessels; Steam, Motor, Sailing and Unrigged Yachts; Former Names of Merchant Vessels; Owners of Vessels; Government vessels: Department of Commerce, Department of the Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Agriculture, and Federal Security Agency; the Panama Canal or the Panama Railroad Company; War Shipping Administration. Very good hardcover; stamp on title page cancels the Confidential classification category; some pencil and ink corrections throughout. #26525. $90
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United States. Merchant Vessels of the United States 1947. Including Yachts and Certain Government Vessels. January 1, 1947. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1948. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book). v, 831 pages. Issued by the Treasury Department, Bureau of Customs. Very good hardcover. #26526. $90
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United States. Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA Ship Discoverer OSS 02. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1971. Small 4to (medium-large book). 15 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. NOAA PA 71018 1971. O-449-787. Very good pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26587. $12.50
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United States Federal Maritime Board. United States Federal Maritime Board Annual Report. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1937-41, 1943-50, 1952. 1 volume. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #11782. $27.50
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Walton, Thomas. Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Trim, Construction. Revised by John King. London: Charles Griffin, 1927. 25th edition. 392 pages. Illustrations. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good, covers dampstained. #12977. $12.50
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Warnsinck, J. C. M. 1785-1935: De Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart en de Stuurmanskunst. [The Merchant Marine Academy.] Amsterdam: Vaderlandsch Fonds, 1935. 4to (large book). 350 pages. Colored illustrations. Text in Dutch. Very good hardcover, edges slightly rubbed. #12394. $40
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Williams, Edgar. Ocean Tramps by Themselves. Illustrated by John W. Miller. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co., 1926. 271 pages. Illustrations. Very good hardcover, some ink marginalia. #12986. $15
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Wilson, Edward S. An Oriental Outing, Being the Narrative of a Cruise along the Mediterranean and of Visits to Historic Cities. Cincinnati: Cranston & Curts, 1894. 294 pages. Illustrations. Account of a 65-day cruise on the Fuerst Bismarck, Feb.-March 1894. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #12987. $30
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Wolfe, Reese. Yankee Ships: An Informal History of the American Merchant Marine. Preface by John Jennings. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. 1st edition. 287 p. Illustrations. Good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #13247. $12.50
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Zimmermann, Erich W. Zimmermann on Ocean Shipping. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1923. 691 pages. Illustrations. Folding plates. Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Good. #12991. $27.50
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