Lawrence Pilot (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. John Lanchester "What is Murdoch after?" / Amartya Sen "Sustainability" / Colm Toibin "Up, up, up, lift the face" / Terry Eagleton "Lawrence Sanitised" / Sophie Harrison in the Dissection Room / Mary Hawthorne "The Luck of Walker Evans" / Clive James "The Zero Pilot" (poem) / Wyatt Mason "Old School by Tobias Wolff".

Condition: Gut. 13. Edition. 4°, XII, 421 Seiten, betitelter Originalleinen mit Goldprg. - sehr guter Zustand - 1987. A60361 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1220.

Full calf. Condition: Near fine. The scarce third edition of The American Coast Pilot by Captain Lawrence Furlong. (illustrator). Third Edition. Octavo, xvi, [1], 18-251pp, [5pp ads]. Original full tree calf, title in gilt on morocco label affixed to spine. Stated "Third Edition" on title page. Published without maps or plates, the same as the first edition from 1796. Slight separation of boards at head and tail of spine, text block remains solid. Rear hinge reinforced, foxing to endpapers, a near fine example. Previous sale price written in ink on front free endpaper. Two states noted: One has booksellers' advertisements for West & Greenleaf and for E. & S. Larkin on page 255-256, and is dated "Boston, November 26, 1800" at foot of page 256. The other has advertisements for Thomas C. Cushing and for Thomas Biggs, and is dated "Philadelphia, Sept. 18, 1800." This copy is the latter. (Campbell 3) (Howes F421) (Evans 33772) (Sabin 26219) (ESTC Citation No. W37197). Full title: The American Coast Pilot; Containing The Courses And Distances From Cape-Cod And Cape-Ann To Georges'-Bank, Through The South And East Channels, And The Setting Of The Currents, With The Latitudes And Longitudes Of The Principal Harbours On The Coast, Together With A Tide Table. Connected And Improved By The Most Experienced Pilots In The United States - Also, Information To Masters Of Vessels, Wherein The Manner Of Transacting Business At The Custom Houses Is Fully Elucidated.

Leather bound. Condition: Good +. Fifth edition of Capt. Lawrence Furlong's The American Coast Pilot, belonging to Capt. Ebenezer Andrews of Dighton, Massachusetts. (illustrator). Fifth Edition. Octavo, xii, [2], [15]-408pp. Full leather, title "Blunt's Coasting Pilot" stamped on spine with gilt worn away. Leather covers rubbed and scuffed, worn along edges and corners. Front free endpaper and pastedown missing with hinge cracked, binding stable. Stated "October, 1806" at bottom of title page. Foxing to text pages, with occasional mild dampstaining. Front flyleaves are loose with fore edges tattered. Twelve maps (three folded), very good condition with some mild browning and a few dampstains, lacking map of Charleston Harbour. Handwritten notations on front and rear flyleaves and page 203. Contemporary owner's name in ink on front flyleaf: "Ebenezer Andrews / Dighton." A nice example of this early American navigational guide. Full title: The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the Principal Harbours, Capes and Headlands, from Passamaquoddy, through the Gulph of Florida; With Directions for sailing into the same, describing the Soundings, Bearings of the Light-houses and Beacons from the Rocks, Shoals, Ledges, &c. Together with the Courses and Distances from Cape Cod and Cape Ann to Georges' Bank, through the South and East Channels, and the setting of the Currents, With the Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Harbours on the Coast. Together with a Tide Table. Ebenezer Andrews was a sea captain who was born in Dighton, Massachusetts in 1785, later moving to Fall River in the 1820s. Capt. Andrews sailed the world, traveling to ports in South America, Europe and Asia. He was associated with a number of vessels during his career, either as master or part owner. Among the ships he commanded were the Hope, John Brown and Superior. In 1837, Capt. Andrews moved to Providence, Rhode Island, eventually becoming a merchant in the hay, grain and salt business. Retiring in 1848, Capt. Andrews returned to Dighton, where he died in 1858. He is buried in the Unitarian Church Cemetery.