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London: Spring Books, 1967. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Near fine. 182 pages.Color and black and whiteplates. Index. First published 1927. This is the second impression.

London: Day & Son, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pictorial beveled green cloth, front cover decorated in blue, red and yellow with lettering in gilt. Aeg. Very good. Lloyd, William Whitelock. Unpaginated. Oblong folio. 27 x 37.5 cm. One map, chromolithographed frontispiece, title page, 22 chromolithograph plates (without hand-coloring) and accompanying black and white sketches by Lloyd. Published for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company illustrating life aboard a P&O voyage from London, through the Mediterranean, via the Suez Canal with views of Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Suez Canal, and Red Sea. The author served with the South Wales Borderers in the Zulu War,1879, left the Army in 1882 to pursue a career as an illustrator. Endpapers creased.

London: Day & Son, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco spine, leather corners, gilt decorated front cover lettering. Aeg. Very good. Lloyd, William Whitelock. Unpaginated. Oblong folio. 30 x 40.5 cm. Edition de Luxe. copy 284 of 300 signed by Lloyd. One map, chromolithograph frontispiece, title page, 22 chromolithograph plates (with hand-coloring) and accompanying black and white sketches by Lloyd. Published for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company illustrating life aboard a P&O voyage from London, through the Mediterranean, via the Suez Canal with views of Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Suez Canal, and Red Sea. The author served with the South Wales Borderers in the Zulu War,1879, left the Army in 1882 to pursue a career as an illustrator. Wear to corners and extremities, three centimeter loss at backstrip head, interior fresh and bright.

New York: Navy Historical Society, 1917. Hardcover. Surfaces rubbed. Orig. light blue boards and vellum. Teg. Very good. Four illustrations. Index. A naval officer who served in the navy of the German Confederation before beingreinstated in the US Navy (he was dismissed from the US Navy for having engaged in a duel). Publications of the Naval History Society, Volume VIII. Limited edition, copy 377 of 700.

London: Saunders & Otley, 1837. Illustrated Edition. leather_bound. Later 19th century uniform polished tan calf. Aeg. Near fine. 3 vols. R.W. Buss. 312, 324, 316 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Another in the series of maritime fiction enormously popular in its day, amongst the first sea novels, by a distinguished naval hero based on his real life experiences. This hand-colored edition followed the uncolored first edition of 1834. SADLEIR 1592c." Etched frontispiece, and 3 plates [hand-colored] by R.W. Buss in each vol......Otley put out an advertisement that any owner of the uncolored copy who so desired would in due course receive a set of coloured plates in exchange for his plain ones." Fresh, bright triple decker set. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, inner dentelles, red and green morocco spine labels, slight nicks backstrip heads.

Denver: Old West Publishing, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. decorated green clean. Fine in nicked and chipped plain paper wrapper. 84 pages. 33 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated in color and black and white. Handsomely printed, bright, very clean copy.

New York: Liveright, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 249 pages. Illustrated. Sources. Index.

Hartford: The Connecticut Printers, 1961. Hardcover. Full Irish linen silk-screened with a design by Fletcher Martin. Fine in fine maroon slipcase. Martin, Fletcher. 354 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy E.R. of 1500 (probably for Ernst Reichl designer of the title). Signed by Fletcher Martin who made the illustrations. Introduction by Edmund Gilligan, NEWMAN & WICHE 326. LEC Monthly Letter, a four page printed LEC two color sheet, and two 3 x 5" lined cards with Fletcher Martin's hand written blue ink notes on his private thoughts regarding the illustrations for Macy. He states Macy erred claiming this was his first design for LEC. He says a design for a work, he did not remember the title of was rejected by Macy but paid for by him. He also discusses his disdain for the author, plus a good deal of back and forth regarding topography and other issues with Macy concerning designs for the Sea-Wolf. Martin wanted the author's name included in the design, Macy rejected it.

London: Gibbings & Co. Ltd, 1894. Hardcover. Orig. decorated navy cloth. Teg. Near fine. 2 vols. Brangwyn, Frank. 397 & 415 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Four tinted engravings by Frank Brangwyn. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies.

New York: Grolier Club, 1942. First edition. Boards. Orig. blue/gray boards lettered in gilt with front cover pictorial inset. Near fine. 158 pages. 4to, 28 x 20 cm. Fifteen plates and 295 entries. Limited edition, one of 700 copies. Index.

Akron: The Werner Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth decorated pictorially and in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 241 pages. Oblong folio, 45 x 34 cm. 43 chromolithographs (25 Army and 18 Navy), army and navy uniforms from the Revolution through the Spanish-American War with lettered tissue guards printed in red. Title page printed in red and black. Appendices include The Ships of the United States Navy by class, some were wood gunboats. BENNETT, p.109. Minor nicks to backstrip extremities, a very fresh, clean copy with beveled edges.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1965. First edition. Boards. Orig. patterned red boards. Very good in nicked dust wrapper. 291 pages. Foreword by Alexander Orr Vietor. Nineteen plates and five text figures. Bibliography. Indexes. A landmark in cartography the mapshere discussed present evidence concerning the Viking discovery of America, including one which is the earliest known. It gives indisputable cartographic representation of the Americas.

London: Richard Phillips, 1806. First English edition. Hardcover. Modern black cloth with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Near fine. 181 pages, 3 pp. Index. Small 4to, 21 1/2 x 13 cm. Folding map and seven aquatint plates, many with two images per plate. Translated from the French. 18th century account of European activity in West Africa. The English captured Isle St. Louis and Senegal in 1758; the French regaining possession twenty years later. BRUNET Vol. III, p. 903. Intermittent light text foxing, a few plates closely cropped with loss to one of a caption, plates bright and clean.