Maritime History

PADDOCK, Judah. A narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, ...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (printed by Andrew Strahan), 1818. 4to. 20th-century tan goatskin morocco. XVI, 372 pp. Full description

[PAINTING ON LEATHER - JAPANESE - DESHIMA]. [A bird's-eye view of the Dutch trading post on Deshima, Japan with in the background a Dutch three-master anchored in Nagasaki Bay].
[Japan, before 1800]. Drawing size ca. 34 x 39.5 cm; frame size ca. 46 x 51 cm. (Oil?) painting on leather. In a passepartout and framed. Full description

[PAMPHLET- SPANISH - MARITIME]. Relacion de las presas, que los vageles, y fragatas de la real armada de Dunquerque, y navios de particulares hizieron en las costas de Francia, Inglaterra, y otras partes, desde primero de Mayo hasta ultimo de Diziembre del año de 1638.
Madrid, Diego Diaz, 1639. Folio (c. 29 x 20.1 cm). Unbound, housed in a plastic folder. [2] ll. Full description

[PASSPORT]. Alder-doorluchtichste, … heeren … die dese opene letteren sullen sien … doen wy burgermeesteren .. der stadt Amsterdam te weten, dat schipper Jurriaen Gerritsz. van Amsterdam … dat het schip genaemt de Helena …
Amsterdam, 7 November 1710. 41 x 30.5 cm. Letterpress passport, with a large woodcut initial and spaces where the city, skipper, ship and size are filled in in manuscript, with two seals, signed in the left margin by François Fagel (1659-1746) and at the foot by J. Aley(?). Full description

[OTTOMAN PORT]. [PEETERS, Johannes (Jan) (after)]. [Ladimistri nel' archipelago].
[The Netherlands(?), ca. 1720?]. Oblong folio (19.5 x 31.5 cm). Pen and blue-black ink-wash drawing on laid paper, showing the city of Edremit, its harbour and fortifications, with an Ottoman and a Dutch(?) ship, and a lighthouse, in a brown thick-thin-thin border, signed in the border below right, but difficult to read (I. P. Sto...?, I. P. Ste...?). Framed (37 x 49 cm). Full description

PELLY, Lewis Remarks on the Pearl Oyster Beds in the Persian Gulf. [In:] The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. Volume XVIII.
Bombay, printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1868. 8vo (14.5 x 21.7 cm). With 5 folding maps, including 3 hand-coloured, and an illustration in the text. Contemporary half green calf and marbled paper over boards. 16, cxiii, [1 blank], 117 pp. [The article: pp. 32-35]. Full description

[PERRY, Matthew Calbraith]. Ethiopian concert. United States steam frigate Powhatan, Hakodadi, Island of Yesso, Empire of Japan, May 29th [1854]. An Ethiopian entertainment will be given by the Japanese Olio Minstrels, on board this ship, this evening, weather favorable, to which the Officers invite your attendance.
[On board the Powhatan], Japan Expedition Press, [1854]. 19 x 26 cm as opened flat. A programme and invitation, printed letterpress on washi mulberry tissue paper with a lace-like decorative flower pattern in white. Full description

[PHILIP II, King of Spain]. Ordinancie, statuyt ende policie gemaect byden coninck onsen aldernadichsten Heere, op tfeyt vande contracten vande asseurancien ende versekeringen in dese Nederlanden.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1571. 4to. With armorial woodcut on the title page. Modern vellum. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PHIPPS, Constantine John. A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773.
London, William Bowyer and John Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to. With 15 large double-page and larger folding engraved plates, and many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled board edges, rebacked soon after with a richly gold-tooled spine with globes and numerous floral stamps, red morocco spine-label. VIII, 253 pp. Full description

[PILOT GUIDE]. South Indian Ocean pilot. Comprising Madagascar, Iles Comores, Ile de la Réunion, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the Chagos Archipelago, and other islands lying westward of longitude 80° East. Sixth edition.
London, hydrographic department, admiralty (colophon: printed by Butler & Tanner), 1946. 8vo. With two maps, to be used as an index, 10 plates and a few illustrations in text. Publisher's beige cloth.
With: Supplement no. 5-1956 relating to the South Indian Ocean pilot sixth edition, 1946 corrected to 23 April, 1956.
London, hydrographic department, admiralty (colophon: printed by Tinlling & Co., Liverpool), 1946. 8vo. With a loosely inserted folding plate illustrating the system of buoyage. Publisher's wrappers. XXX, 403, [1]; 46 pp. Full description