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![[Coast Pilot] The American coast pilot; containing the courses and distances between the principal harbours, capes and headlands, from Passamaquoddy through the Gulf of Florida, with directions for sailing into the same, describing the soundings, bearings of the light-houses and beacons from the rocks, shoals, ledges, &c. Together with the courses and distances from Cape-Cod and Cape-Ann to Georges'-Bank, through the South and East Channels, and the setting of the currents, with the latitudes and longitudes of the principal harbours on the coast, together with a tide table. By Capt. Lawrence Furlong. Corrected and improved by the most experienced pilots in the United States-- Also, information to masters of vessels, wherein the manner of transacting business at the custom-houses is fully elucidated. Published according to act of Congress](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0220.jpg "[Coast Pilot] The American coast pilot; containing the courses and distances between the principal harbours, capes and headlands, from Passamaquoddy through the Gulf of Florida, with directions for sailing into the same, describing the soundings, bearings of the light-houses and beacons from the rocks, shoals, ledges, &c. Together with the courses and distances from Cape-Cod and Cape-Ann to Georges'-Bank, through the South and East Channels, and the setting of the currents, with the latitudes and longitudes of the principal harbours on the coast, together with a tide table. By Capt. Lawrence Furlong. Corrected and improved by the most experienced pilots in the United States-- Also, information to masters of vessels, wherein the manner of transacting business at the custom-houses is fully elucidated. Published according to act of Congress"){kind=small}
8vo: xvi,[1],18-251,[5]pp, including one hundred pages of additional material, published without maps or plates, as was the first edition of 1796. Original tree calf, flat spine divided into six compartment with gilt rules, red morocco label lettered in gilt. Two states noted: One has booksellers' advertisements for West & Greenleaf... more
Price: $1,365.00
![[Torpedo Warfare] The art of war in seven books . . . to which is added, Hints relative to torpedo warfare by a gentleman of the state of New York](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0949.jpg "[Torpedo Warfare] The art of war in seven books . . . to which is added, Hints relative to torpedo warfare by a gentleman of the state of New York")
Tall 8vo: 349,[1]pp, with 7 folding plans (one two-sided) in the main work of armies arrayed in varying battle formations and 10 woodcuts in the text of the final work illustrating aspects of torpedo warfare. Included in the pagination, with separate title page, is "Some anecdotes, relating to the life... more
Price: $965.00
Thick 8vo: xvi,536pp, with two large folding maps (States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, Comprehending the Spanish Provinces of East and West Florida . . . by Joseph Purcell; and Northern and Middle States, comprehending the Western Territory and the British Dominions in North America from the... more
Price: $2,650.00
Slim 8vo: [2],126pp, with three copper-engraved plates (one folding), folding map of the Galapagos Islands, and woodcut of a tortoise in the text. Recent period-style three-quarter calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands decorated in gilt and blind, brown leather lettering piece gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, end papers renewed,... more
Price: $785.00
![History of Bunker Hill Battle, With a Plan; [bound with] Notes to his sketch of Bunker-Hill battle](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB0867.jpg "History of Bunker Hill Battle, With a Plan; [bound with] Notes to his sketch of Bunker-Hill battle")
8vo: 58; 34pp, with large folding map of the battle engraved by Annin & Smith. Bound in plain blue wrappers. The 34-page "Notes to His Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle" is complete with its own title page. A superb, untrimmed copy, quite fresh and bright with only minor creasing to... more
Price: $365.00
![Two Rivulets Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India [Centennial Edition, Signed]](/fineeditions/images/items/80x160/BB1123.jpg "Two Rivulets Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India [Centennial Edition, Signed]")
First Issue, one of only 100 copies [BAL 21411], sometimes called the Centennial Edition, after the label at foot of the spine. 8vo: 32,[2],84,[2] 18,[2],x,[4],14,[4],68,[2],120pp, with albumen print frontispiece portrait of the poet autographed by Whitman tipped-in with printed two-line caption (in later states, the caption was extended to a... more
Price: $6,250.00