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Hackman, Rowan M. B. H.
The Fleet Past and Present of Hunting & Son Ltd., Shipowners
and Ship Managers, London and Newcastle.
Newcastle upon Tyne: World Ship Society for Hunting & Son Ltd., 1969. 3d ed. 44
pages. Photographs. Color illustration inside front cover.
History of the Hunting Fleet. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover).
#26573. $15
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Hackman, Rowan, Foreword.
The Hunting Fleet of Ships Past and Present. Part One: Vessels
Managed for Hunting Interests. Part Two: Vessels Managed for the British
Government.
Newscastle-upon-Tyne: Hunting & Son, in collaboration with the World Ship
Society, 1954. 27 pages. Photographs. Color illustration inside front cover. On
front cover: Huntings of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26574. $15
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Hale, E. E. (Edward Everett).
Stories of the Sea: Told by Sailors.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. 12mo (small book). 302 pages. Index. Pictorial
frontispiece.
Good decorative hardcover, spine ends slightly frayed, edges and corners
slightly rubbed; frontispiece foxed. #27342. $35
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Harlow, Frederick Pease.
The Making of a Sailor, Or Sea Life Aboard A Yankee
Square-Rigger.
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1928. 377 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Marine Research Society Publication 17.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Very good. #12514. $45
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Heitmann, Harald.
Pa langfart med Ursus Minor. Erindringer ved Harald Heitmann.
Kragero, Norway: Naper, 1974. 67, [1] pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
The 623-ton Norwegian bark 'Ursus Minor,' built in and operated out of Kragero,
was sunk with its cargo of coal about 200 miles off the coast of Ireland by the
German submarine U-84 on August 12, 1917. Text in Norwegian. Very good stiff
pictorial wrappers. Small stain on edge of front cover. Unrelated gift
inscription on half-title page. #27855. $40
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Hill, Alfred T.
Voyages.
New York: McKay & in cooperation with the South Street Seaport Museum, 1977.
1st printing. 142 pages. Illustrations. Photographs.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding in dust jacket. Very Good in Good dust jacket.
ISBN 0679203796. #16160. $12.50
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Hill, M. N., editor.
The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the
Sea. Volume 2: The Composition of Sea-Water, Comparative and Descriptive
Oceanography.
New York: Interscience Publishers, 1966. 2d printing. xv, 554 pages. Index.
Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. First published in
1963.
Many chapters divided in sections on the Composition of Sea-Water and on
Comparative and Descriptive Oceanography, Good hardcover, edges slightly
rubbed. #25490. $12.50
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Howe, Octavius T., and Frederick C.
Matthews.
American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858. Volume I: Adelaide-Lotus.
Volume 2: Malay-Young Mechanic.
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1926-1927. 4to (large book). 2
volumes (xiii, 372; ix, 373-780). Index. Colored frontispiece in each volume.
55 pages of plates with 114 illustrations. Marine Research Society Publication,
13. Howes H726.
Volume 1: Good hardcover, stain near upper left hand corner and front hinge.
Volume 2: Good hardcover, with stain along upper left hand corner and along the
front hinge. Former owner's signature and bookplate inside front cover of both
volumes. #15508. $95
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Hudson, Kenneth, and Ann Nicholls.
Tragedy on the High Seas: A History of Shipwrecks.
New York: A & W Publishers, 1979. 1st American printing. 170 pages. Index. Maps.
Photographs. Illustrations.
Chapters include the Perils of the Sea, Wrecks of the Prehistoric and Classical
Periods, Medieval Wrecks, Wrecks of the Tudor and Renaissance Periods, 18th
through 20th centuries, Wrecks and the Law, Underwater Archaeology. Very good
cloth-covered hardcover in Very good dust jacket. ISBN 0894790242. #18200.
$15
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Humiston, Fred.
Blue Water Men - and Women.
Portland, Maine: Blue Water Books, 1966. 1st edition, 2d printing. ix, 172 pages.
Illustrations. Photographs. First published in 1965.
A collection of columns from the Press Herald focusing on Maine's maritime
heritage, including piracy, the Roaring Forties, California, Bully captains and
bucko mates, mutiny, and the navy. Good hardcover. Gift inscription on upper
right-hand corner of blank front flyleaf. #14303. $15
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