Category: Maritime

Sailing Yacht Design

By: Phillips-Birt, Douglas

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Camden, ME, International Marine Publishing Company : 1973

Seller ID: 006752

ISBN-13: 9780877420170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original bright orange cloth on boards. DJ very good and matching in color. Revised with added material. Speed and resistance, Midships, Hull form, Keel, Stability, Balance, Rating, Rigging, Sail and power, Calculations, Design, Appendices.103 diagrams. 348 pp.
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Sixteen Sail in Aboukir Bay

By: Plowman, Stephanie

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: London, Methuen and Co. Ltd. : 1956

Seller ID: 002371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ. Previous owner's name, and initials on foot. Tiny chip missing from DJ (See PHOTO). A first-person fictional account by a man who sailed with Nelson. 204 pp.
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The Newfoundland Fish Boxes; A Chronicle of the Fishery

By: Roberts, Dr. Harry D. With Nowlan, Michael O.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Brunswick Press : 1982

Seller ID: 013429

ISBN-13: 9780887901133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. Wonderful colour drawings add interest to the descriptive text to tell the story of this long-past industry of the Maritimes. Official numbers, measurements, and weights are shown in addition to details of construction and last voyages. 110 pp.
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The Golden Age of Sail

By: Ross, David

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Amber Books, Ltd. : 2013

Seller ID: 010082

ISBN-13: 9781782740698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

White paper on boards. Unclipped DJ. An illustrated guide to great sailing ships from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 224 pp. with index and bibliography.
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A Spirit Deep Within: Naval Architect W.J. Roue and the Bluenose Story

By: Roue, Joan E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Hantsport, N.S., Lancelot Press : 1995

Seller ID: 013359

ISBN-13: 9780889995611

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Dark green pictorial softcover with photo on the front, and white lettering. Mark where price tag was removed, and tiny crease in top right corner of cover. Slight wear at bottom corners. No marks or writing. The author was the great granddaughter of William James Roue, the architect of the Bluenose - this is the story of his career. 104 pp. including Appendix.
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Under Sail Round Cape Horn

By: Schulz, Guenther T.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co. : 1954

Seller ID: 012296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus

Beige cloth on boards. No writing. DJ chipped all around and torn along fold. "This is the story, mostly in pictures, of a voyage round Cape Horn in a mighty nitrates barque, a famous four-master, from Hamburg out to Chile and back again." - DJ flap. Six pages of text by Joseph Conrad, titled 'Consecration'. 239 pp.
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Out of Appledore; The Autobiography of a Coasting Shipmaster and Shipowner in the Last Days of Wooden Sailing Ships

By: Slade, W.J.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press : 1972

Seller ID: 005925

ISBN-13: 9780851770260

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown trade paperback. Revised edition. Edited and with a preface by Basil Greenhill. How it all began, I become Master, First World War, Coming of the motors, Depression and an interlude in sail again, Second World War and the end of it all, List of the vessels owned by the Slade Family of Appledore, Notes on the racing of schooners and ketches, Note by Captain J. Whitefield. 124 pp. No writing and only mild surface wear to this book.
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Astounding Tales of the Sea

By: Snow, Edward Rowe

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co. : 1965

Seller ID: 011815

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Red cloth on boards. DJ missing thumb-size chip at bottom. Previous owner's name. Twenty stories of tragedy at sea, some resulting in heroic rescue while others ended in cruel death. 268 pp.
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The Vengeful Sea

By: Snow, Edward Rowe

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dodd, Mead & Company : 1956

Seller ID: 004954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original light blue cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ has minimal wrinkling at head of spine. A far-ranging coverage of shipwrecks around the world. 307 pp.
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Masters of Sail; The Era of Square-Rigged Vessels in the Maritime Provinces

By: Spicer, Stanley T.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, NS, Petheric Press : 1968

Seller ID: 013090

ISBN-13: 9780919380387

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Grey softcover with silver titles and photo of navigation paraphernalia on the front. Wear/scuffing to edges and corners of cover. Ex-library with stickers, marks and pocket. Describes the various sizes and types of ships built and sailed from the Maritimes before the advent of steel ships. Several small shipyards are mentioned, such as that owned by Justus Wetmore of Clifton on Kingston Peninsula of New Brunswick. 278 pp.
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Gone to Yacht; A Pictorial History of Sailing on the St. John River (Signed)

By: Sullivan, Herman (M. D.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Saint John, N.B., Dreamcatcher Publishing : 2004

Seller ID: 009602

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Photo cover trade paperback. The author, a member of Royal Kennebecasis Yacht Club, outlines the background of the group with photos and text. Laid in are several loose sheets of errata, photos of various yachts, and associated text. In addition, several pages are given to duck hunting, also with related photos. Additional, unsigned copies available at $20.00 each. 81 pp. plus author's page.
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Red Sea Invertebrates

By: Vine, Dr. Peter

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Immel Publishing : 1986

Seller ID: 005454

ISBN-13: 9780907151111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original dark blue vinyl on boards. Previous owner's name. Introduction, Sponges, Coelenterates I, Coelenterates II, Worms and vermiform animals, Crustaceans and chelicerata, Molluscs, Bryozoa, Echinoderms, Urochordates, Glossary, References, Acknowledgements, Index. 224 pp.
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Red Sea Explorers

By: Vine, Peter/ Schmid, Hagen

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Immel Publishing : 1987

Seller ID: 005452

ISBN-13: 9780907151302

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original photo cover trade paperback. Previous owner's name the only marking. The Arabia Felix expedition, Two centuries of discovery, Adventurous waters, Mantas, Mermaids, White sharks, Turtles, Sea of life, Secrets revealed, Ship-wrecked sailors, Precious mud, From Solomon to sand, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. 206 pp.
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Anson's Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740-44

By: Walter , Chaplain Richard

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications, Inc. : 1974

Seller ID: 011891

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Colour cover paperback. George Anson was commissioned to take eight ships to the Pacific in order to harass the Spanish in 1740. Seven of the ships were lost, while Anson captured one of the Spanish treasure galleons. 402 pp. No writing or damage.
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A History of Shipbuilding and Naval Architecture in Canada

By: Wilson, Garth

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museum of Science and Technology : 1994

Seller ID: 005445

ISBN-13: 9780660120225

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial soft cover on grey card stock. Text is English, with some quotations in French. Calls Canadian shipbuilding the "child of war." An overview with bibliography. 93 pp. Previous owner's name the only fault.
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All Afloat; A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

By: Wood, William

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company : 1915

Seller ID: 010155

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Blue leather on flexible boards. No. 31 in the Chronicles of Canada Series. Top edges gilt. This volume is a general essay on types of watercraft and the water resources of Canada rather than history. Canoes. Sailing Craft. Steamers. Fisheries. Navies. 199 pp.
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Flag and Fleet; How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas

By: Wood, William

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada : 1919

Seller ID: 011925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Blue and white cloth on boards. A no-nonsense presentation directed toward young people of the development of the British sea power. 301 pp.
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Saint John Ships and Their Builders

By: Wright, Esther Clark

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Self-published : 1976

Seller ID: 013713

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Orange illustrated paperback. Previous owner's ink stamp on cover, half-title, and title page. Copies of this book are getting harder to find, and it's the only one of its kind. 229 pp. with index.
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The Marine Art of J. Franklin Wright

By: Wright-Popescul, Jean

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, National Marine Arts, Inc. : 1990

Seller ID: 007597

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ. Previous owner has written name and note on both the first free endpaper and half title, and a brief autobiography on the last free endpaper.. Original box with tape repairs and price. 0-9694192-0-1. 176 pp.
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Category: Maritime