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Historical work on the Dutch trade and activities at sea, esp. whaling and herring fishery, with magnificent views of the harbours of the Netherlands, including Batavia View picture(s) 1 AA, Cornelis van der [& D.JONG, H. Kobell Jr. & M. SALLIETH]. Atlas van de zeehavens der Bataafsche Republiek & die van Batavia  en Onrust. Mitsgaders de afbeeldingen van de haringvisscherij en de walvischvangst. In Een-en-dertig Kunstplaaten naar het  Leven afgebeeld ... En met vermelding van veele bijzonderheden, betreffende den ouden en lateren toestand der Nederlandschen koophandels, visscherijen, traffieken en fabrieken. Amsterdam, L. Maaskamp, 1805. Large folio . Modern three-quarter calf. With fine engraved title in various scripts by Klockhoff, and 31 double-page engraved views (ca. 285 x 395 mm) of Dutch harbours with a great variety of sailing-ships, mostly in a stiff breeze, including the harbours of Batavia and Onrust (an island near Batavia) in the Dutch East-Indies and two views of herring-fishery and whaling, after the drawings by H. Kobell Jr. and D. de Jong, engraved D. de Jong & M. Sallieth, with captions in French and Dutch. (5), VI-XII, 135 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  Fishing  Indonesia  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  VOC  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare print series with naval subjects View picture(s) 2 BEECQ, Jan Karel Donatus van. Plusieurs Pieces Maritimes. Paris, [ca. 1690]. 2 works in 1 volume. Oblong folio. Contemporary calf. With engraved frontispiece, and 5 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, and 5 engraved plates. All plates depict several ships. (12) ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engravings  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful suite of lithographed plates. With King Louis-Philippe's monogram View picture(s) 3 BRETON, Louis Le. Marines de tous les pays. Paris; London, E. Savary, Me Ve Turgis; Gambart, [1853]. Oblong folio (32 x 60 cm). Contemporary half purple roan, gilt crowned monogram L.P. on spine, with purple marbled board covers, title and crowned monogram L.P. in gilt on front cover, marbled endpapers. The monogram was used by king Louis Philippe, and became part of his son's coat of arms. With 34 lithographed coloured plates, depicting different ships from all over the world. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  Art General  Bindings  Lithographs  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Advantage of steam vessels over sailing ships View picture(s) 4 CAMPAIGNAC, Antoine Bernard. De l'état actuel de la navigation par la vapeur et des améliorations dont les navires et appareils a vapeur marins sont susceptibles; suivi de notes explicatives, tableaux, projets, etc. Paris, 1842. 4to. Contemporary green half calf, spine gilt (slightly worn). With 5 large folded plates and a folded table. 19, 355 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare original and only editions of two elegant Neo-Latin poems on shipbuilding and monkeys View picture(s) 5 CHARLEVAL, Charles François de. Navis carmen. Rennes, Widow of Mathurnus Denys, 1695. 8vo. Contemporary brown calf, spine gilt in compartments with orange label lettered in gold. With a folded engaving of a 17th century vessel under full sail. (4), 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: French  Literature  Maritime History  Neo-Latin  Poetry  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to become a good sailor View picture(s) 6 COMTE, Pieter le. Praktikale zeevaartkunde en theoretische kennis voor handel en scheepvaart. Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1842. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to (27 x 25 cm). Modern polished brown calf, raised spine with black title label. Text part with numerous tables in text; the plates part with 121 numbered engraved plates (including LIII A), showing 684 numbered illustrations. VIII, 16, 313. [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Manuals  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Naval battles & corsairs View picture(s) 7 DUGUAY-TROUIN. [OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie]. Recueil des combats de Duguay-Trouin les campagnes de Duguay-Trouin. Paris, Chez le Sr. le Gouaz, (ca. 1790). Folio (41.5 x 29 cm). Original half green vellum with marbled boards. 15 plates, including the engraved title page, and engraved portrait, neither with enumerations, followed by nu. III through XV. followed by the advertisement, the Explication de cettes figure, which depicts a ship, giving 48 terms for its various masts, sails, etc. Two double page maps ("Carte ou l'on voit le lieu des combats en recontree de l'ennemi" and "Plan de Rio de Janeiro"). And 18 scenes of naval battles. 14 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: French  Maritime History  Militaria  Ships & Shipbuilding  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On shipbuilding View picture(s) 8 FORFAIT, Pierre A.L. Traité élémentaire de la mature des vaisseaux à l'usage des élèves de la marine; ... Seconde édition, ... considérablement augmentée... Suivi d'un mémoire sur le système de construction des mâts d'assemblage en usage dans les ports de Hollande... Paris, Bachelier, 1815. 4to. Contemporary green half calf, spine gilt. With 25 engraved folding plates and with several tables folded because they exceed our copy its margins. 16, 340, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Manuals  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ship building for the French navy on the eve of the Revolution View picture(s) 9 FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent. Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de monsigneur le Maréchal De Castries, ministre et secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine. Paris, Clousier, 1788. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled end-papers. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. XL, 294 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the last manuals on sailing ships before mechanical propulsion took over View picture(s) 10 FUNCH, Diderik Hansteen. Dansk Marine-Ordbog. Copenhagen, Trykt paa Forsatterens Forlag hos Bianco Luno, 1846-1852. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large 4to. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt. With numerous illustrations on all ship-parts, the armament and rigging of a seaproof sailing ship on 67 full-page engraved plates, partly coloured by hand, and  incl. 7 folding plates with views of a finished ship, a ship at full sails, with all arms and full rigging, etc. (4), 169, (3); 152 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Denmark  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learn the difference between oak and oak View picture(s) 11 FUNCH, Diderik Hansteen. Proeve over het eikenhout, bij den bouw der schepen in gebruik; naar het Deensch van D.H. Funch, onderscheepsbouwmeester, door H.G. Jansen, onder constructeur der Marine te Rotterdam. 's Gravenhage, Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1842. 8vo. Original half cloth, gilt title on spine, marbled boards. With two folding tables, and 6 folding colour lithographs, numbered, lithographed by I.D. Steuerwald with cross-sections of oaktrunks, and unnumbered folding plate with cross-section of parts of a ship, several tables in text. XX, 153, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Denmark  Natural History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French naval officer wins the gold medal of the Zeeland Society of Sciences View picture(s) 12 GARNIER DE SAINT-JULIEN. Mémoire en réponse a deux questions sur l'art nautique, proposées, en 1781, par la Société Zélandoise des Sciences, établie à Flessingue, pour le compte de celle de Batavia, qui a remporté le prix au jugement de la première, dans son assemblée générale tenue à Flessingue le 7 octobre 1783. Présenté à Mgr. le Maréchal de Castries, par l'auteur, le 2 avril 1784. Par M. Garnier de St. Julien, Capitaine en 1er au Corps-Royal du génie. Vlissingen, 1785. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut. With 5 figures on 3 folding engraved plates printed on blue paper. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Maritime History  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Zeeland  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First extensive biography on a notorious captain, smuggler and naval captain View picture(s) 13 M*** (= Nicolas Joseph MAREY). Vie du Capitaine Thurot. Paris, 1791. 8vo. Later marbled boards, new endpapers. 140 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Biography  Economy  French  Ships & Shipbuilding  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Navigating through centuries: the first naval history View picture(s) 14 MORISOT, Claude Barthélemy. Orbis Maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia: in qua inventiones navium, earundem partes, armamenta. Instructiones Classium, navigationes, praelia maritima, arma, stratagemata, trophea, triumphi, naumachiae. Urbes & coloniae maritimae, periplus orbis antiqui, & novi. Magistratus, praefecturae & officia classica apud omnes Gentes. Leges navales, lustrationes classium, causae & genera ventorum, usus pixidis nauticae, histiodromice, marium diversi motus, aestusque, atque exundationes, aliaque omnia ad rem maritimam pertinentia. Opus unicâ centuriâ contentum, quae in duos libros divisa & partita est: Primus: res in mari, aut circa mare gestas continet, ab initio navigationum ad Costantini Magni obitum, cum descriptione littorum antiquis cosmographis cognitorum. Secundus: A Constantino Magno ad hanc usque diem res pelago, & in oris gestas complectitur, cum descriptione littorum antiquis incognitorum. Dijon, Petrus Palliot, 1643. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin with marbled boards. Engraved title by Spirinx, title printed in red and black, double-page plate of an ancient sea battle (Naumachia) and 44 engraved plates in text, including a full-page plate of an antique statue with six antique vessels attached to it, 23 maps, 9 plates of antique coins with representations of the sea, and 11 views of various (sailing) ships, including one propelled by oxen, all engraved by Palliot. (24), 725, (19) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Classical Antiquity  Europe  Geography  Maritime History  Medals  Navigation  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important account of a voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean View picture(s) 15 WEBSTER, William Henry Bayley. Narrative of a voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. sloop Chanticleer... London, printed by Samuel Bentley for Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary uniform half calf, gilt and blind-stamped spine, marbled boards, blue speckled edges. With two engraved maps and five aquatint plates. XI, [1], 399, [1]; VIII, 398 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [Central]  America [South]  Brazil  Great Britain  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most authoritative standard work on Dutch ship building View picture(s) 16 WITSEN, Nicolaas. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier: waer in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt, de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen: verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert: Indisch vaertuygh: galey-bouw: hedendaegsche scheeps-plichten: verrijckt  met een reex verklaerde zee-mans spreek-woorden en benamingen. Amsterdam, C. Commelijn, Broer & Jan Appelaer, 1671. Folio. Contemporary full red morocco, richly gilt and decorated spine, double and triple gilt fillets and gilt cornerpieces on sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With an engraved frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, title in red and black, 114 mostly full-page engraved plates by 'P.L.' after the drawings by Witsen: I-CIX, of which one double-page and A-E, two of which are smaller. [14], 516 [= 510], 40, [5, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engineering  Maritime History  Militaria  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most authoritative standard work on Dutch ship-building View picture(s) 17 WITSEN, Nicolaas. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier: waer  in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen. Amsterdam, Casparus Commelijn, Broer & Jan Appelaer, 1671. Folio. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With etched frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe and 114 mostly full-page engraved plates by 'P.L.' after the drawings by Witsen. [14], 516, 40, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engineering  Maritime History  Militaria  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare edition with rules and regulations for (the maintenance of) the fleet of the Kingdom of Naples View picture(s) 18 [ACTON, Sir John Francis Edward & Antonius Count of THURN and Valsassina]. Istruzione per il servizio de bastimenti della Real Marina di guerra. Naples, 1800. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine elaborately gilt with floral stamps, sides with gilt borders, floral corner pieces and centre-piece. Engraved armorial vignette (coat-of arms of Ferdinand IV) on title. 86 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Italy  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learn to talk like a sailor View picture(s) 19 [AUBIN, Nicolas]. Dictionaire de marine. Contenant les termes de la navigation et de l'architecture navale. Avec les règles & proportions qui doivent y etre observées. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1702. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece showing several workingmen with navigation instruments and 2 "nautical" figures viewing a scene of a harbour in which several ships are being built and repared, title in red & black, 30 engraved plates depicting different kinds of ships and navigation instruments. The text is illustrated with numerous woodcut figures. (12), 776 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dictionaries  Engravings  Maritime History  Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Poster for ca. 1750 a ship (galliot - galjoot) and inventory auction View picture(s) 20 [AUCTION POSTER - SHIP]. BONTEKONINGH, Joannes and Dirk (brokers). Presenteren (uyt der hand) te verkoopen, een extraordinary welbezeylt galjoot-schip, genaamt De Maria: Is in 't 1711 Nieuw Uitgehaalt,... en tegenwoordigh in de Nieuwe Zyds Wal, agter de Oude Stads Herbergh, is liggende. Amsterdam, Karel van Rijschooten II, [ca. 1750]. 1 folio leaf, printed on 1 side. Full description >> Related Subjects: Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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