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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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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 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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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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