Shipwrecks (30 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. 34 pages, illustrated in colour. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Zustand: Very Good. 12 pages, 2 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Zustand: Very Good. A brief record of notable maritime disasters in the Antilles, summarising losses, locations, and circumstances drawn from contemporary reports. 2 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Zustand: Very Good. 7 Pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Harmsworth London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

1st Ed. No pagination, 64 Pages with 102 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Torrey Canyon). Near fine. Oblong: 14.8 x 21. The pictorial records of the Gibson family of the Scillies, started in 1860, on tall ships & working boats, steamships & motor vessels.

Zustand: Very Good. 9 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w photos. Laminated boards. Near fine. 21.6 x 15. Mont Pelée Volcano (1902). Titanic (1912). Morro Castle (1934). North Sea oil rig disaster (1980).

1st Ed. Folded poster 40 x 42 (8 folds) with 1 map and 14 b/w illustrations. Fine. Folded size: 21 x 10. Underwater Heritage Laws. Declared shipwreck sites in NSW: TSS John Penn, PS Commodore.

July 1992. Set 1 in the New South Wales Historic Shipwreck series. 22 PP loose leaves, with location map, plan of diving site and a b/w profile of each ship. Contained in a clear plastic envelope. Fine. 29.8 x 21. Historical and diving information on 10 historic shipwrecks: PS Mimosa - TSS John Penn - Merimbula - Yarra Yarra - PS Commodore - Walter Hood - Ballina - SS Duckenfield - Dunbar - Queen of Nations.…

1st Ed. Edited by Gilbert CASTET. 124 PP with advertisements, 8 pages with chronological tables, 1 chart in colour, and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21. Shipwrecks on New Caledonia coasts and reefs: windjammers, nickel ore carriers, warships and US planes during WWII.…

1: Shipwrecks at Port Phillip Heads since 1840 by P. J. Williams and R. Serle; 2: Wrecks on Victoria's South West Coast by J. K. Loney; 3: The Loch Ard Disaster by J. K. Loney; 4: Shipwrecks along the Southern Coast by G. A. Nayler. Melbourne 1967-1970. 8vo. Cloth bound with orig. illust. wrappers bound-in. Profusely illustrated. Fine.…

8vo. 7.25 x 4.5 inches. [iv] + 235 pp. Text in French. Bound in decorated stiff boards with ornamental borders enclosing colour pictorial view / pattern on rear board, with gilt spine titles. Extremities worn at edges, flyleaves browned, and scattered foxing, especially at beginning and end, but otherwise a very good copy. Facsimile signature of publisher on verso of series title. School prize label, Boulogne, 1858 on front pastedown. Illustrated by frontispiece and by engraved title. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Accounts of famous shipwrecks. A volume in the Christian Schools Library series of the prominent Tours publishing house of Armand Mame et Cie. Dating back to the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It specialised in religious and family books. Mame concentrated all the activities of book production - printing, binding publishing and sales - in one business. Earlier editions of this title appeared in 1843-44, 46 and 52. MARITIME SHIPWRECKS MARITIME SHIPS FRENCH 19TH CENTURY MARITIME.…

1st edition, with a preface by Gabriel Valet. 172 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, paintings and photos) and colour illustrations (1 Index chart, 50 location maps and hundreds of photos). Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Fine. 27.8 x 21.5. Shipwrecks on New Caledonia coasts and reefs: windjammers, nickel ore carriers, warships, and US planes during WWII. Wreck of a 40 m. long cargo freighter (drug ?, refugees? .) on Bampton Reef discovered in April 2019.…

72pp. With 22 engravings in the text. Original publisher's pictorial buff paper boards. Rubbed and marked, loss to spine panel, upper board working loose. Early ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. An enlarged edition, in original unsophisticated state, of a series of accounts, intended for a juvenile readership, of infamous shipwrecks; including, the French frigate Medusa in 1816, the Proserpine in 1799, and the sloop Betsy in 1756. Size: 12mo.…

Farbportraitfoto, eigenhändig signiert (ganz leicht verwischt / minimal smear) (color portrait photo signed by underwater historan).

Eight 16mo leaves ['A4' at foot of recto of first leaf]. Sixteen unpaginated pages. Unbound, in contemporary marble wraps. Aged and slightly stained, but good overall. Dramatic fold-out handcoloured engraving of distressed men in rowboat in turbulent sea, roughly four and a half inches by five wide, captioned 'CENTAU. | Situation of part of the Crew who are leaveing [sic] the Wreck in a Boat.' Closed tear in engraving unobtrusively repaired on reverse with archival tape. Small stamp of the Webster Collection, with manuscript date 1924, on reverse of print. No title-page, so perhaps an extract from a longer work. No copy with this specific title on COPAC. …

12mo, pp. 143, [1]. Several illustrations included within pagination. Original brown cloth, boards blocked with a blind frame, front board lettered in gilt. A little scattered foxing and soiling. Boards a little mottled, a little wear to rear joint. Prize inscription to pastedown dated 1867, modern ownership inscription of JB Redfearn to flyleaf. A rare printing of a collection of reports of maritime disasters, mostly at least putatively from the testimonies of serving naval officers. The wrecks covered are the mailship Lady Hobart, lost in 1804 off the coast of Canada; the Eastindiaman Cabalva, wrecked in the Indian Ocean in 1818; HMS Centaur, a 74-gun ship of the line which foundered off the Grand Banks in 1782, and HMS Litchfield, which ran aground on the Barbary Coast in 1758. This 1844 printing is not recorded in Library Hub or Worldcat, which record between them several printings between 1824 and 1855, including an 1837 printing at Cambridge also designated a ?New Edition, with cuts..…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Edinburgh Review and Critical Journal, July 1834 January 1835. Volume 60.Published in Edinburgh, printed by Ballantyne & Co., 1835. 9"x6 , (2), (ii), 554pp. Recently rebound in modern linen, with new endpapers. Very crisp. Very Good copy. __+__Includes the following articles of interest: "Seven Annual Reports of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and The American Railroad Journal", pp 94-125; Peter Mark Roget, "Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with reference to Natural Théology", pp 142-180; Mrs. Jameson, "Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical", pp 180-190; The first three meetings of the BAAS, pp 363-395; John Marshall, "Statements as to the Proceedings of the Committee for Classing the Mercantile Marine", and James Ballingall "The Mercantile Navy Improved and Sea Insurance the Cause of Shipwreck", pp 363-395. __+__ In addition to a substantial amount of early railroading material and the interesting insurance report on the frequency of shipwrecks there is this nugget from the review of the first three meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science coming from Davy, Herschel, Brewster, and Babbage, about reversing a downward trend in the sciences in England by having the government make some modest investments in scientific associations. They did so ".under a deep concern for the honour of England, boldly pointed out the fact of the decline of science and the scientific arts. They investigated the causes by which so fatal a change had been produced, and suggested the means by which the sciences be fostered and revived. They felt evidently a fair amount of pushback: Some individuals, interested in science as a source of professional gain, and others, prompted by vanity and ignorance, endeavoured to thwart these appeals to the government and the country. A third class, already enjoying professorships, and other university appointments, repudiated the idea of a national establishment for science.[and] conceived that philosophers, like Puritans, would be disgraced by secular honours and dignities; and it was their desire that science, like virtue, should be its own reward. But in the rare and pure ether which they breathed, they had forgotten that in the two English universities, no fewer than nine professors had received from government an annual addition of L. 100 to their incomes.".…

First Edition. Good copy in contemporary half black leather over marble boards, now lightly scuffed and edgeworn. Spine with gilt-blocked titles, somewhat worn at the ends, and peeling slightly at the front joint. Well-preserved internally: tight, bright and clean overall, with crisp folded matter. A well-preserved example. Physical description; 1 volume (variously paginated), plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 34 cm. Notes; Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 10 August 1843. Subjects; Shipwrecks Great Britain History 19th century. Marine accidents Great Britain History 19th century. Merchant marine Great Britain Safety measures 19th century. Lifesaving Great Britain History 19th century. Lighthouses Great Britain History 19th century. Coastwise navigation Great Britain History 19th century. Parliamentary papers Great Britain 19th century. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good copy in contemporary half black leather over marble boards, now lightly scuffed and edgeworn. Spine with gilt-blocked titles, somewhat worn at the ends, and peeling slightly at the front joint. Well-preserved internally: tight, bright and clean overall, with crisp folded matter. A well-preserved example. Physical description; 1 volume (variously paginated), plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 34 cm. Notes; Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 10 August 1843. Subjects; Shipwrecks Great Britain History 19th century. Marine accidents Great Britain History 19th century. Merchant marine Great Britain Safety measures 19th century. Lifesaving Great Britain History 19th century. Lighthouses Great Britain History 19th century. Coastwise navigation Great Britain History 19th century. Parliamentary papers Great Britain 19th century. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Clamshell case Fine. First Edition. Title continues: Sixty-Second Congress Second Session. Directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate the Causes Leading to the Wreck of the White Star Liner "Titanic". Thick, large 8vo. With three folding maps. Bound in tan buckram with black rules and lettering on spine. Text clean, light soiling to cloth, spine slightly darkened. Rear hinge starting. Contemporary owner signature in pencil. Housed in a custom clamshell box of half-red morocco over red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. "They said, 'nothing serious is the matter' . I did not realize it, the whole time, even to the last moment . I would never believe such a thing could happen." The US Senate investigation convened over 18 days, with 86 witnesses informing the record at-hand. Among them, Bruce Ismay, the Managing Director of the White Star Line; Second Officer Charles Lightoller (who figures prominently in the Walter Lord bestseller A Night to Remember), Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and electrical engineer, whose name was synonymous with radio wave-based wireless system telegraphy, and whose company provided wireless service for both the Titanic and the Carpathia, the ship that responded to the Titanic's distress signal, and Captain Arthur Rostron of the Carpathia, among many surviving passengers and crew.The colossal meeting of hubris, poor navigation and exceptionally bad timing resulted in a disaster that reverberates ad infinitum. Books on the subject continue to pour forth, running perhaps fourth behind Jesus, Napoleon, and the Civil War as fodder for speculation, fresh insight and metaphorical discourse. This report, with dramatic first-person accounts, remains a foundational text. Scarce. Hardcover in custom clamshell case. …

Folding hand-coloured frontispiece. 16mo. Later half calf, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in. 16pp. Isleworth, Hodgson, Departing St John's, Newfoundland, in January 1825, the Francis and Mary ran into trouble in early February, losing the long boat, companion, tiller in a swift gale and soon cut the foremast and bower anchors. The boat drifted for the better part of a month, during which time seven sailors died from hunger. It was on February 22nd that hunger prevailed and the first of the deceased was eaten by the survivors. "Also James Frier [a cook], who was working his passage home, under a promise of marriage to the female passenger [Ann Saunders], who attendedd on the master's wife; and who, when she heard of frier's death, gave a loud shriek, then snatching up a cup from the mate, cut her late intended husband's throat and drank his blood! insisting that she had the greatest right to it." The folding plate depicts the bloodthirsty scene in vivid detail. The ship was relieved on March 7 by HMS Blonde. The pamphlet includes yet another account of a shipwreck, that of a Dutch East Indiamen the Vrheid bound for Batavia in 1782. Rare. There were several pamphlets published, this being no. 5 in the series. Just one copy in OCLC. Not in Huntress but cf Huntress, 234C.…

folio [32x21cm]. pp106. 1 lithograph plate. good clean condition in modern card covers. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].

x, 11- 429 pp. Detailed accounts of the losses of about 30 vessels in all parts of the world. Includes "Loss of Nottingham Galley, of London; wrecked on Boon-Island, near New-England, December 11th, 1710." Howes, U.S.iana: : R 190. Shaw & Shoemaker, American Bibliography: 29640. Well worn calf; rear board stained. A few leaves partially pulled away resulting in frayed fore edges. Ffep loose. Age darkening and light foxing throughout.…

Zustand: Excellent to Near Fine. A letter from Ann Brown Phelps (17851833) in Stonington, Connecticut to her sister-in-law and niece in Auburn. Phelps writes: "A mind enervated with grief & affliction for the loss of a dear and promising Son I can only attempt a feeble pourtray of the melancholy manner in which death has entered our family[.] The 16th Nov William our seventh son left home and took passage from Lower Mystic for NYork from there he saild with Capt Loomis in the new packet Alabama for Mobile thence to N.O. allowing full time for his arrival and not hearing of them we sent to N London the 2st Feb and they returned information that they expected the vessel was lost the 11th we heard they were taken of the wreck and carried into St Augustine language is inadequate to describe the anguish of my mind while reflecting on the horror of incertitude at his fate. On the 28th we were informd they had not been heard of and were supposed to have been lost on the 4th or 5th Dec A thousand and probably more occurrences from his infancy up to the day he left home in succession, rushed through my memory and by a Mysterious Providence I was permitted to proceed in silence with unwearied toil to make preparation for his death." The Alabama was owned and captained by James Loomis, a trader from a prominent family in East Lyme, Connecticut. The ship was to take on cargo at New York City before proceeding south, and was last seen sailing away from Sandy Hook. Phelps' son, William Wallace Phelps, was fourteen. Single three-page letter measuring 8 x 10 inches.…

54 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 54 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sabin 87138; Huntress 134C for London edition Disbound. Staining along lower margin, title page with light soiling. Very good.

FIRST EDITION, 3 vols, half titles, folding frontispiece map and another folding map (both vol. 1); vols II and III variously toned with some foxing, pp. xix, [1], 448; [2], 516; [2], 515, [1], 8vo, later nineteenth-century half blue morocco, spines ornately gilt in compartments with red labels, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; joints scuffed and tender, spine leather chipped at head of vol. I and (more significantly) foot of vol. III; bookplate of Harrison Williams; good. Superb accounts of 22 shipwrecks and stories of seafaring derring-do, arranged chronologically from 1431 (the Pietro Quirini) to 1807 (the Nautilus Sloop of War). These narratives, which comprise first hand and contemporary accounts, include the wreck of Francis Pelsart off New Holland (1629), the story of a Dutch crew over wintering in Nova Zembla in 1596, the loss of the ship Sidney on a South Sea reef in 1806, and the voyage made by Captain Bligh, in an open boat, from Tofoa to Timor in 1789. (Sabin 80537. Ferguson 548b). …

Rare Dutch translation of a German compilation containing 16 narratives of various disasters at sea. Among the catastrophes described are the shipwreck of the Bengalore, the mutiny on the Bounty, the starvation on the Peggy (leading to cannibalism), and the adventures of Captain Kearney in the East Indies. The fate of the Hercules is described in more detail. According to Saalmink, the present edition was translated from Gemählde der merkwürdigsten Schiffbrüche neuerer Zeit, which, on its turn, was compiled from the popular Mariner's Chronicle by Archibald Duncan. Tipped into our copy is a list of members of a reading circle at Oudewater, dated April 1823. Spine slightly damaged, some small dampstains. Very good untrimmed copy.l NCC, KVK and WorldCat (1 copy); Saalmink, p. 1259; not in Huntress. Contemporary wrappers with printed title label to spine. With the engraved title page with an aquatint vignette by W.H Hoogkamp after J. van Meurs. Pages: VI, 312 pp.…

2 pp. on bifolium. With red wax seal. Folio. Statement made by the two shipwrecked Aberdeen mariners John Harvey and Daniel Lamond before George Boyd, the Notary Public of Sunderland, detailing how they lost their vessel and cargo off Sunderland Pier in a storm: "[.] these Appearants set sail with the said ship [the 'Peggy'] from Alemouth in Scotland [i.e., Alnmouth, Northumberland] on the 27th Day of September instant about one o'Clock P.M. staunch and in good Condition, and well manned, with a Cargo of Wheat on board, and proceeded with the said Ship to Newbiggen in the County of Northumberland, when about 4 o'Clock P.M. the Sea raged very high, and the said Ship sprung a Leak [.] the water still increasing upon them, they could with the greatest Difficulty keep the said Ship above water; - when the said Ship arrived off Tynemouth Castle, these Appearants let go the Anchor of the said Ship, but the Sea, still continuing to rage with great violence, they were under the Necessity of cutting the Cable [.] these Appearants endeavored to run the said Ship for Sunderland Harbour, (they not being able to get the said Ship into Shields Harbour) but when they arrived off there (viz. about 5 o'clock A.M.) there was six feet of Water in the Hould and these Appearants finding it impossible to keep the Ship above Water any longer, were under the Necessity of running her on Shore on the South-side of Sunderland Pier, in order to save their lives [.]". - While little is known of John Harvey, Daniel Lamond later entered the Royal Navy and died in the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, one of the nine officers and 103 men of Captain James Walker's "Isis" killed or wounded when Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson's fleet defeated the Danish-Norwegian fleet. - Folded and with three drystamps (6d, 6d, 1s) and 8d stamp. Seal cracked. Signed by both mariners and the Notary, counter-signed by his clerks, Thomas Mewburn and James Dove.…