Boston: Marden & Co. Printers, 32 Congress Street, 1840. First edition of this occasional report of this early charitable organization. 24mo (6.13 x 3.81 inches), original marbled wrappers, 53 pages. A token of the importance of maritime commerce in New England, a charitable organization founded as an association of sea..... More
New Bedford: Capt. Thomas Crapo, Publisher, 1893 [i.e. 1900]. Second edition, here reissued after Crapo's death (with a brief account of his demise) by Crapo's widow. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 151 pages. Illus. A first-person account of the life of a New Bedford sailor and adventurer, including stories..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Bartram and Reynolds, 1807. First American edition. 12mo, original full sheep, tan morocco label, gilt lettering, 131, [1] pages. First published in England in 1805, from the Danish author who had come to England in search of work; his position as a Dane in Britain during the..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. 8vo (7.63 x 5.25 inches), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 432 pages. Frontispiece and pictorial title page. An anthology of six sea yarns from various sources, including John W. Gould’s “Cruise of a Guineaman” (piracy and slave-trading off the African coast)..... More
Buckingham: Printed and Sold by J. Seeley, 1804. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 7.94 x 5.13 inches, 132 pages. "The following Trial, with the Papers which accompany it, require no comment from Rear Admiral Berkeley. He has published them with a view of shewing his Brother Officers and the Navy, that..... More
Pittsburgh: Published by R. Patterson & Lambdin, 1818. First Pittsburgh edition and a later American edition of this 18th century account of a Scottish surgeon's meditations aboard a British man of war. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 254, [8] pages. This appears to be..... More
Providence: Published by William Marshall; Hartford: W. Marshall & Co., 1832. First edition. 8vo, unobtrusively rebacked with the blue cloth spine laid down, drab boards, 216 pages. “The immaculate Cooper, the ‘Walter Scott of America!’ . . . might ‘mend his kakelology’ most amazingly by a month’s sojourn on board..... More
Auburn: Printed by U. F. Doubleday, 1821. First edition. 12mo, original calf, red leather spine label, gilt lettering, 254, [1] pages. Disappointed in 1803 in an editorship and having exhausted his resources in traveling to Philadelphia to take the prospective job, Ray “in a paroxysm of half despair and half..... More
[Boston:]: Published under the Sanction of the Independent Bethel Union of the Port of Boston, 1846. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 60 pages. The reform-minded Rev. Denison had concurrently started the Bethel Union, a temperance ministry for the seamen of Boston, and the religio-nautical paper Sheet Anchor with the..... More
