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Comprehensive collection of maritime and whaling-related volumes, including historical accounts, narratives, and reference works on the whaling industry. Titles include: There She Blows (multiple copies/editions) Pursuing the Whale by Cook Whale Shi...

Collection of maritime and nautical-themed books including sea fiction, exploration narratives, and historical works. Highlights include: Thrilling Incidents on Sea and Land (1892 illustrated volume) The Captain’s Wife by W. Clark Russell Mrs. Chippy...

Collection of whaling and maritime-themed books including classic sea narratives, historical works, and illustrated volumes. Highlights include: There She Blows (multiple copies) Whale Ships and Whaling Whalemen’s Paintings and Drawings Additional wo...

Includes: Paul Gauguin (Rizzoli) The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture The John Hay Whitney Collection (National Gallery of Art) Additional museum and exhibition publications Overall good condition

Group of two art reference volumes featuring French painting: French Painting from the Hermitage, Leningrad: Mid-19th to Early 20th Century Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings (The Art Institute of Chicago) Overall good condition

Key features from the set: Volume I (front cover: The Potato Eaters detail; back cover/gift case: Self-Portrait; frontispiece: Self-Portrait in Front of the Easel) Volume II (front cover: Wheat Field with Crows; back cover: Self-Portrait with Bandage...

Titles included: An Eighteenth-Century Garland: Colonial Williamsburg (dark green hardcover with gold floral basket on cover; two copies present—one appears slightly taller) The Eighteenth-Century Houses of Williamsburg by Marcus Whiffen (revised edi...

Titles included: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling — First Edition, July 2007, published by Scholastic / Arthur A. Levine Books Wizardology: The Secrets of Merlin — Candlewick Press Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons All thr...

Key titles identified: The Vegetable, or From President to Postman by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923 — his only published play; true first edition). Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Vol. II visible...

Titles included: Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Rev. J. William Jones (D. Appleton, 1874 — early edition with library discard stamp from Richmond College). Civil War Medicine 1861-1865 by C. Keith Wilbur (Glob...

Highlights Include: The Wind's Will by Gilbert Byron (Easton Publishing, 1961) — poetry inspired by sailing and the Chesapeake Bay. This copy is signed/inscribed by the author (“Gilbert Byron”) on the front endpaper. America's Maritime Heri...

Includes: -Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe by Hervey Allen — Two-volume set (Volume I and Volume II). This is the Edgar Allan Poe Shrine Edition (limited numbered edition published for the Poe Shrine in Richmond, VA, by George H. Doran...

Books included: -The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley (National Audubon Society / Knopf — the iconic illustrated field guide). -The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley (detailed companion on biology, behavior, an...

Key titles: -The Story of the American Sailor: In Active Service on Merchant Vessel and Man-of-War by Elbridge S. Brooks (D. Lothrop Company, Boston, 1888 — first edition; shown open with 1888 copyright). -Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry D...

Stack of books include: -Peterson Field Guide: Hawks (Clark/Wheeler) -A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Peterson/Mountfort/Hollom) -The Appreciation of Birds (Halle) -The Birder’s Handbook (Ehrlich, Dobkin, Wheye) -The Everglades Hand...

Two original 1867 copies of History of the United States Secret Service by General Lafayette C. Baker. This is the key Civil War intelligence memoir covering Lincoln’s secret service operations, espionage, and counter-intelligence. Condition: Typical...

Early 20th-century Library of Health illustrated medical reference volume, published circa 1916 (1920 edition noted). Large-format book featuring period medical information and illustrations, bound in decorative red cloth with gilt lettering and medi...

Titles included: -Schooner Sultana: Building a Chesapeake Legacy — Photographs by Lucian Niemeyer, text by Drew McMullen (beautiful modern book with color photos of the reconstruction of the historic Chesapeake schooner Sultana; 2002 first edition, l...

Titles include: -Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories by Louis Becke (London: T. Fisher Unwin / Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1898 — early edition of South Seas maritime tales). -The Flying Cloud by Morley Roberts (sea adventure story with ship ...

Titles included: -Sailing-Ship Models by R. Morton Nance — Limited Edition #1392 of 1700 copies (beautifully produced volume with gilt ship illustration on the navy blue cover; highly desirable for model makers and nautical collectors). -Rees's ...