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La Grange, Helen.
Clipper Ships of America and Great Britain, 1833-1869.
With 37 Wood Engravings in Full Color by Jacques La Grange. New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1936. Small 4to (medium-large book). xi, 381 pages. Index.
Bibliography. Illustration. Lines of Ships, Sail Plans, and Charts. Endpaper
maps of record passages.
Includes over 50 pen-and-ink drawings and plans of ships, appendices of
technical details, elements of naval architecture and the art of shipbuilding,
spar dimensions, abstract logs and other features. Very good hardcover, front
hinge starting. #27162. $22.50
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Laing, Alexander.
Clipper Ship Men.
Illustrated by Armstrong Sperry. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944. 1st
edition. 279 pages. Index. Illustrations. Endpaper illustrations.
Story of the development that led to the clipper ship of the 1850s. Good
hardcover in chipped, frayed and worn dust jacket. #14467. $12.50
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Leavitt, John F.
Wake of the Coasters.
Middletown, Connecticut: Published for the Marine Historical Association by
Wesleyan University Press, 1970. 1st edition, Limited edition. Copy 284 of 725
numbered copies signed by the author. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book).
xvii, 201 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. Original prospectus laid in.
Signed by the author. American Maritime Library, II.
An informal history of New England's coasting vessels as well as a personal
memoir of the author's years on coasters, 1914-1921. Very good hardcover in
very good slipcase. ISBN 0819540250. #27721. $40
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Leek, Michael E.
The Art of Nautical Illustration.
Royston, Hertfordshire: Eagle Editions, 2002. 4to (large book). 192 pages.
Index. Bibliography. Color plates. Endpaper illustrations. Front cover subtitle: A Visual Tribute to
the Achievements of the Classic Marine Illustrators.
'An authoritatively written, beautifully illustrated survey of nautical
painting - possibly containing more full-colour reproductions than any other
study published on the subject - from its earliest practitioners to the present
day, the Art of Nautical Illustration is essential reading for all those who
love the sea and all those who are attracted by nautical illustration as an
absorbing art form.' - Front jacket flap. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers
(soft cover). ISBN 1861604246. #24981. $15
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Lescal, Yves.
The Great Days of the Cape Horners.
Translated by Len Ortzen. New York: New American Library, 1967. 1st American
edition. Oblong 4to (medium-large book). 175 pages. Illustrations. Plans.
Very good hardcover in fair dust jacket. #12068. $7.50
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LesStrang Publishing Corporation.
The Great Lakes Ports of North America.
Foreword by Jacques LesStrang. Ann Arbor, Michigan: LesStrang Publishing
Corporation, 1973. 4to (large book). 109 pages. Photographs. Illustrations.
Maps. Produced and published in cooperation with the International Association
of Great Lakes Ports.
A book about twenty-two international, deep-water ports. They lie withing five
bodies of water knows as the Great Lakes, and are joined to the oceans of the
world by a series of locks and channels knows a the Saint Lawrence Seaway. -
Preface. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26597. $20
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Little, George.
Life on the Ocean, Or, Twenty Years at Sea: Being the Personal
Adventures of the Author.
Boston: Waite, Peirce, 1845. 3d edition. 395 pages.
Cloth-covered hardcover binding. Fair, joints separating. #14550. $80
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Lubbock, Basil.
Adventures by Sea from Art of Old Time.
Preface by John Masefield. London: The Studio, 1925. Copy 313 of 1,750. Folio
(very large book). ix, 40 pages. 115 Plates (22 color).
Hardcover binding. Front cover slightly spotted, else Good. #11738. $60
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Lubbock, Basil.
The Western Ocean Packets.
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat, 1925. xiii, 155 pages. Index. Illustrations. Plans.
Frontispiece.
Good hardcover, small crack along top front edge; bookplate inside front cover.
#26939. $17.50
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