Recent Arrivals from Ten Pound Island Book Co.

Buffalo NY: A.W. Wilgus, 1843. First edition. "Embodying, Also, Letters Descriptive Of Personal Appeals In Behalf Of Her Husband, And His Fellow Prisoners... By Mrs. B. Wait." As a result of his participation in the Rebellion of 1837, Wait was convicted of high treason and condemned to death. He escaped to the US, only to learn that he had received… Read more about this item

(Cork, Ireland): (Cork University Press), (1970). Okay, so when I bought this excellent study, I thought the title was NAVY in Scotland. In fact it's a sociological study of laborers, many of them Irish, employed in Scottish projects. First and only edition, very good-fine condition in dustjacket.. 21.5 cm. 378 pp.

Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1888. With 177 varieties noted and described. Two color reproductions of mounted seaweed specimens, a folding map of the Elie coast, and an albumen photo of "The Lady's Tower" on the Scottish coast, tipped onto the title page. Front cover rubbed, sewing loose, text and images very good. A rare book, with six libraries, only one… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. Contains the 500 page "Materials for a History of the Mackerel Fishery" by Goode, Collins, Earle and Clarke. With coverage of the entire US, testimony of fishermen, lists of vessels, description of fishing methods, vessels and ports engaged in the fishery, laws pertaining to it, etc. An important document in fisheries history. Bound as issued… Read more about this item

Rye, N.H: Cyrus Chandler Company, (1961). Plummer took a cruise with his son and a cat on a catboat from Maine to Florida as rest for a set of frazzled nerves and tired eyes. His narrative of this trip is a perennial favorite marked by whimsical good humor and by information on harbors and waterways long since disappeared. The rare… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907. Rich in natural history, from a sportsman's point of view. Millais uses his interest in caribou and caribou hunting to explore their natural history, the topography of their range, and the culture of the indigenous people who depend on them. Also includes chapters on fin, humpback and blue whale fishing. See O'Dea, 1382, "Micmac… Read more about this item

Augusta, ME: Kennebec Journal Print Shop, (1950). Forword by novelist Ben Ames Williams. Copiously illustrated. Very good condition in publisher's blue cloth.. 27 cm. (12) 207, (1) pp. b/w plates.

London: Chatham Publishing, (2001). An interesting slant on the activities of the Royal Navy. Contributions by ten experts, including Tom Pocock. First edition. Fine condition in pictorial dust jacket.. 23.5 cm. 288 pp. b/w halftone and line ills, maps.

The story begins with its hero, Blosphoros the Buccaneer, on the Isle of Apes. As a youth he'd been kidnapped by a "crew of Greek Corsairs" who taught him the arts of piracy. With this background, at the age of 16, he assisted "Harry Morgan, the Welch Pirate, to sack Peurtobello," during which he "perpetrated a whole series of ghastly… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, (1973). Twenty-four essays considering various problems of pre-Columbian contacts. As new in dust jacket. . 23 cm. xvii, 552 pp. b/w line ills. and halftone plates.

Lyon: Chez J.F. Rolland, 1834. According to Chavanne, "Die Literature uuer die Polar-Regionen der Erde" #6569, this recounting of Phipps's 1773 polar expedition, and of François Pyrard's voyage to the Maldives (a rather odd combo, if you ask me), is Volume XXX in Campe's and Rolland's 59-volume juvenile "Geographic Library." It is rare. Not in Arctic Bib. or any of… Read more about this item

Madrid: Ramon Ruiz, 1793. History of trade and navigation of the ancients, including chapters on trade with Arabia, China and India. Translated from the French edition of 1716, includes much of Pacific interest. Huet was a polymath who wrote about philosophy, religion, language, and ancient texts. He translated important earlier works into Latin. See "Ensayo de Bibliografia Maritima Espanola, 2146.… Read more about this item

N.P. (Concord NH?) : Author, 1905. "Reprint with corrections and additional memoranda" of the 1902 first edition. Roberts teases out the facts about the identity of the sailor who blew up the "Serapis" in her 1779 battle with John Paul Jones and "Bon Homme Richard." With a typed letter, signed, from a later relative of that sailor, George Roberts, explaining… Read more about this item

Washington DC: The Carnegie Institute, 1912. Along with discussions of the Polynesian alphabet and the spread of languages and peoples, there are vocabularies of Paumotu-English, Mangareva-English, Tahitian-English, Marquesan-English, and Rapanui-English, the latter with an "English-Rapanui Finding List." Bound as issued in stiff printed wrappers, which show wear at spine ends. This book is ex-libris Yale University, and there are library… Read more about this item

Ulverston, UK: W. Holmes, Ltd., 1906. "Being a study in the development of weapons and appliances of offence, from the earliest times to the age of gunpowder." A fascinating history, illustrated with over 350 line drawings of weapons and their uses. First edition, very good condition in publisher's decorated green cloth.. 21.5 cm. xviii, (2), 312 pp. b/w line ills.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1924). "Songs of American Sailormen." One of the earliest and still best books on American sea shanties. History, words, and music. This is the first trade edition. It shows some cover wear but is in good condition.. 24 cm. (22) 118 pp. Musical notation and b/w plates

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, (1951). Charming look at a more-or-less universal pastime that the English claim to have invented. Or, at least this book claims that invention for the Brits. Richly illustrated, with quotations and images from British authors and illustrators regarding the topic. First edition. Very good condition in illustrated dust jacket.. 21.5 cm. viii, 151 pp. Color frontispiece,… Read more about this item

Altoona, PA: Times-Tribune Press, 1923. "As Sung in the Backwoods Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber Camps in the 'Black Forest' of Pennsylvania 1840-1923." Second edition, with history and commentary, excellent photos, and lyrics, but no musical notation. In publisher's stiff paper wrappers. Bound with staples, which have stained cover and frontispiece illustration along the gutter margin. Otherwise very good condition..

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. "A revised and enlarged edition of 'Camping in the Canadian Rockies' with more than forty photogravure and other illustrations from original photographs by the author." Third edition, of which Neate says, "This edition largely rewritten: photogravures increased from 25 to 38, more than half of them being different from those in the previous edition."… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead, n.d. (1924). American reprint of a book first printed in England. It gives a very interesting portrait of the great Stef. Harold Noice first went north with Stefansson in 1915-17. He published this account of the expedition in 1924. He later became involved in Stefansson's tragic Wrangel Island operation as the commander of the relief expedition… Read more about this item