Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1841. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 12 pages, untrimmed. Adams weighs in on the complicated point of international law surrounding an incident in the wake of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837; McLeod had been arrested in New York after bragging he had been among those..... More
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
Boston: Printed by John Russell, at his Office, Quaker-Lane, [1799]. First edition. Original blue oilcloth wrappers, 7.25 x 4.5 inches, 13 pages. Title-page vignette. A handsome little publication of the articles of incorporation for this marine insurance company, presumably intended as a promotional keepsake; its oilcloth wrappers seem happily suited..... 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
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
Boston: Published and Sold by William Pelham; Munroe & Francis, Printers, [1807?]. One of two editions; an undated edition was also published in Philadelphia. Unbound stitched pamphlet, 9.25 x 5.88 inches, 12 pages, untrimmed. Unopened. Prompted by the Leopard incident, a message from Secretary of State James Madison to the..... More
[Boston: n. p., 1839]. First edition. 1 page on a bifolium, approx. 10 x 7.75 inches. Signed in ink by George Bates. Bates's statement dated in type Boston, April 9, 1839; Bates explains that his legal suit against John Barney has been settled, with Barney agreeing to publish the attached..... 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
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
Boston: Printed for Sterne and Mann, 1818. First edition. Unbound and stitched as issued, approx. 7.13 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. Unopened. Signed in type at the foot of the text, "End of the first number," but no other known numbers were published. The lyrics to popular songs; the patriotic..... More
[Washington, D.C. n. p., 1881]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [4] pages. "Sickness, leathing of food and indigestion follow the terrors and buffetings of the sea. Cordials, delicate gruels, and light simple broths and food, with good tea and coffee, are very requisite under these circumstances. All that the Government..... More
Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan; Auburn: Derby & Miller, 1853. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped violet-brown cloth, gilt lettering, 291, [1], [8] pages. From the eventual Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy, celebrated spy in the Mexican War, and early citizen of Erie, Penna. (Wood was stationed there with..... More
