A scarce and attractively illustrated catalog of marine instruments by leading merchants and manufacturers Thomas Shufeldt and John Davidson Negus. An introductory statement to patrons is followed by accounts proving the quality and reliability of Negus instruments, as well as a variety of testimonials, including an extract from the 1876.....
A scarce account in verse of the sinking of the Titanic, composed by a woman and published seven months after the disaster. While the Titanic was officially a ship in the British White Star Line, the company was a subsidiary of the American-owned International Mercantile Marine Co., controlled by titan.....
A scarce proposal for a new dry dock system, illustrated with a large and impressive lithograph, based on a drawing by Paul Hodge and entitled Proposed Plan of a Sectional Floating Dry Dock and Permanent Stone Basin, Connected With Bed and Sliding Way. The lithograph depicts a three-masted ship in.....
First and only edition of this scarce account of a shipwreck in the treacherous waters of the Bay of Tramore, notable for the loss of 264 soldiers of the 59th Regiment, which was much distinguished in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the signing of the peace treaty with France on 6.....