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FAIK BEY. Seyahatname-i Bahr-i MuhitIstanbul : 1285 AH / 1868 CE
First edition of this Ottoman travelogue about the first Turkish voyage to America - a detailed eyewitness account by one of the officers aboard the imperial corvettes Bursa and Izmir. The two ships left Gallipoli in 1865, aiming to reach the Arabian Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope. Near the Cabo Verde Islands, they were accidentally blown of...Learn More
SCHOL, Frances. Photograph album of a tour in the Middle East.[c.1901-1910]
Album with nearly 200 photographs of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon, compiled by a tourist, Frances Schol, in the first decade of the 20th century. It illustrates a typical guided tour for European tourists in early 20th-century Egypt and the Levant.
The album opens with Cairo, with images of the museum (built in 1901), street scenes,...Learn More
COLLINGWOOD, R. G. The First Mate's Log of a Voyage to Greece in the Schooner Yacht Fleur de Lys in 1939.London : 1940
First edition. Collingwood learned to sail as a boy and, in 1939, was persuaded by a group of Oxford undergraduates to join them on a yacht cruise in the Aegean Sea.
"His account of the trip is the only travel book which Collingwood ever wrote. Although much of it deals with the daily life of the crew and circumstances of the voyage, it...Learn More
HALLIBURTON, Richard. First two bulletins of the Halliburton Trans-Pacific Chinese Junk Expedition.Shanghai : 1939
The first two newsletters, each signed by the famous explorer on the last page, of his ill-fated final expedition, during which he planned to sail a junk, the Sea Dragon, from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. These examples are complete with their mailing envelopes and the two photographic prints of the Sea...Learn More
TIZARD, T. H. The Yangtse Kiang Pilot Containing a Description of, and Sailing Directions for, the Yangtse Kiang, from the Wusung River to its Highest Navigable Point,London : 1914
First edition, with the January 1915 supplementary notices loosely inserted. The compiler, Captain Thomas Henry Tizard (1839-1924), gained experience as a naval surveyor in China and the Mediterranean, becoming Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy in 1891.Learn More
TRUCIAL STATES. Instructions for the Guidance of Her Majesty's Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade.London : 1892
First edition thus, reproducing each treaty signed between the Gulf sheikhdoms and Britain from 1820 to 1847. Publication occurred in the same year as the Exclusive Agreement between the British and the Trucial States. We have traced seven sets in institutional libraries; this set is in better condition than usually encountered in...Learn More
MODERNIZATION IN CHINA. Xing chuan mianzhuang zhangcheng ("Measures for Avoiding Collisions at Sea").[Shanghai : 1895
First edition, issued by Shanghai's Jiangnan Arsenal as part of the late-Qing "self-strengthening movement", during which a wave of radical commercial, scientific, and legal changes aimed to rapidly modernize China's economy. The text was overseen by John Fryer (1839-1928), who translated more Western scientific works into Chinese than any other...Learn More
MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA, Louis, Earl (preface); BLIGH, William. The Log of the H.M.S. Providence 1791-1793.Guildford : 1976
Signed limited issue, one of 50 copies signed by Earl Mountbatten and finely bound by Zaehnsdorf, from a total edition of 500 copies (this number 154).
Mountbatten contributes the preface to this imposing volume, a facsimile of Captain Bligh's holograph log kept aboard HMS Providence, reproduced from the original manuscript held in the...Learn More
CHINA; navigation and ports. King's Regulations, International Regulations, Rules, Orders, and Rules of Court. Issued under the China Orders in Council During the Years 1920 to 1923.[Likely Shanghai : c.1924]
First edition. Alongside notices amending and repealing existing directions, the volume includes the text of four newly propagated and substantial documents concerning the ports of Amoy, Yingkou (Newchwang), Wuhu, and Qingdao, as well as several non-maritime orders.
This copy, now deaccessioned, was one of at least two sent to the Foreign...Learn More
CHINA; navigation and ports. King's Regulations, International Regulations, Rules, Orders, Notifications and Rules of Court. Issued under the China Orders in Council, 1904 to 1919, During the Year 1919.[Likely Shanghai : 1920]
First edition, the majority of the 31 notices concerning pilotage, harbours, and port sanitation. Accompanying the text are two anchorage plans and the full bilingual text of the 1918 Ningbo harbour regulations, which were formally propagated in 1919.
The ports and harbours covered include Shanghai, Wenzhou, Chefoo, Tianjin, Hankou, Fuzhou,...Learn More
MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA, Louis, Earl (preface); BLIGH, William. The Log of H.M.S. Bounty 1787-1789.Guildford : 1975
Signed limited issue, one of 50 copies signed by Earl Mountbatten and finely bound by Zaehnsdorf, from a total edition of 500 copies (this number 177). Mountbatten contributes the preface to this imposing volume, a facsimile of Captain Bligh's holograph log kept aboard the Bounty and maintained throughout his epic open-boat voyage.
The...Learn More
DONNELLY, Ivon Arthur (comp.). The "Hai-Ho" (Sea River): A Brochure on the River from Taku Bar to Tientsin.[Likely Tianjin : 1933
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the compiler on the front free endpaper recto, "To Capt. Ings, 'Carmanashire', with Ivon A. Donnelly's compliments. Tientsin, 28/5/35." Donnelly's scarce handbook is found in four institutions only on WorldCat.
The plates picture tugs and other vessels operating on the river, some of them...Learn More
YANGTSE RIVER. Yosuko annai ("Guide to the Yangtse River").[Perhaps Tokyo] : 1940
Later edition, mapping the river's course from Shanghai to Chongqing in sections and incorporating new information on the unfolding Sino-Japanese war. Issued by Japan's China Area Fleet, the work also includes plans of key ports, showing wharfs, railway lines, and other riverside infrastructure.
Yosuko annai was first published under this...Learn More
NAVIGATION. Karáchi Harbour (Kurrachee.) West Coast of India.Karachi : 1892
First edition of this scarce guide for pilots and mariners, with the tipped-in compliments slip of the secretary of the Karachi Port Trust, addressed in manuscript to the Swedish shipping firm K. O. F. Dalman.
The guide details the specifications of the harbour, mooring charges, pilotage and towage charges, and the size of recent trade. The...Learn More
EVELYN, John. Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress.London : 1674
First edition, written as the introduction to Evelyn's history of the battle for sovereignty over the seas between England and Holland, which he had been commissioned to write by Charles II.
By the time it was published peace had been negotiated with Holland. The work gave such offence to the Dutch that the ambassador demanded its...Learn More
KEATE, George. Account of the Pelew Islands,Philadelphia : 1789
Scarce edition, in a contemporary binding produced in Pennsylvania or Maryland, of this popular account of Captain Henry Wilson's voyage aboard a British East India Company ship called the Antelope, and of its wreck near Palau. The work includes a short dictionary of the Palau language.
"In 1783, the Antelope... was wrecked on a reef near...Learn More
COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE - MANLEY, Isaac George. Logbook kept while commanding HMS Fairy.Mostly at sea : 1789
A window onto the later career of Isaac Manley (1755-1837), mourned on his death as the last remaining participant in Cook's historic first voyage. Manley joined Cook's crew aged only 13 and was promoted to midshipman on 5 February 1771, during the journey home. He rose to the rank of admiral of the red, becoming one of the fifteen most senior...Learn More
DE VILLARD, Robert Alexis. Map of the Yangtse-Kiang, in Thirteen Sheets,Shanghai : 1895
First edition, presented by the author to Bruno Navarra, the editor of the Shanghai newspaper Ostasiatische Lloyd. Issued in the wake of the opening of Chongqing to foreign trade, de Villard's impressive atlas was the first detailed plan of the river's 1,500-mile course from Sichuan to the sea. WorldCat records only nine institutional...Learn More
FINLAY, David W. Reminiscences of Yacht Racing and Some Racing Yachts.Glasgow : 1910
First and only edition. Finlay was Regius Professor of Medicine at Aberdeen for over 21 years and a keen yachtsman from his youth. Here he offers "anecdotal racing memoirs, 1850-1871, and 1891-1906, with observations on the yawl rig, Corinthian racing, single- and double-handed matches, and racing reports, together with the details of the races in...Learn More
SHANGHAI PORT AUTHORITY. Regulations [in Chinese].Shanghai : 1953
First edition of this rare publication, the first set of regulations promulgated by the Shanghai Port Authority after the 1949 revolution, containing information on topics such as signals, the import and export of goods, health and safety, and customs inspections. The large folding map pinpoints the location of signal lights, wires, and other...Learn More
