| | Photo | | Creator | Date | Title | Price | | | Description |
| 388 |  | Details | Bell, Richard | 1877 | Cruise of the U.S. Flagship Richmond | $800.00 | Bell--Richard | Cruise-of-the-U-S--Flagship-Richmond | Very rare large broadsheet, a momento from the Atlantic and Pacific cruise of the U.S. wooden steam sloop Richmond during 1872 to 1877. This poster-sized lithograph documents the crew and ports of call for the Richmond from the time it was put on commission at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on November 18, 1872 until it was decomissioned at the Boston Navy Yard in September 1877. <BR> </BR>
The Richmond had a long history of heroic service from the time it was launched in 1860. The sloop saw much action during the Civil War as part of the Gulf Blockading Squadron at the head of passes in the Mississippi River. The sloop was damaged during several engagments including an attack by David Farragut's squadron against Mobile bay, and an attack on Port Hudson. The valor of the crew on that vessel resulted in awards of the Medal of Honor to 32 marine guard and crew members, more than any other Union vessel in the Civil War. <BR> </BR>
Lists the crew, oficers, and marine guard by name and rate. The print also contains a description of the ship's armaments and statistics: 259 feet length overall, draft 17.6 feet, engine, and much more. <BR> </BR>
We have been unable to locate another copy anywhere of this print that was apparently designed as a souvenier for the ship's crew. Probably very few copies were printed as the officers, marine guard and crew totaled only about 300.<BR> </BR>
Bottom section lists the numerous ports visted during the entire cruise of 60,583 1/4 miles with both arrival and departure dates. The cruise included a transit of the Strait of Magellan and visits to San Francisco and many other Pacific ports of call on the west coast of South and Central America. Compiled by Richard Bell, Yeoman. Printed by Rand, Avery and Company. Boston.<BR> </BR> |
| 216 |  | Details | Michelot and Bremond | 1730 | Title Page - Recueil de Plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades | $625.00 | Michelot-and-Bremond | Title-Page---Recueil-de-Plusieurs-Plans-des-Ports-et-Rades | Title page to "Recueil de Plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades de la Mer Mediterranee", <a style="color:#9BAFCB" rel="nofollow" href= "/MichelotBremondBackground.aspx">Henry Michelot and Laurens Bemond's</a> quarto-sized atlas of Mediterranean ports and harbors published between 1727 and 1730. This elaborately engraved title page is very rarely found alone, usually only as one of the 38 plates in a copy of the complete Michelot and Bremond atlas.<BR> </BR>
Interesting note is that on the bottom neatline, previously engraved wording has been hastily covered over before printing, with just top and bottom of characters still visible. |
| 206 |  | Details | Anonymous | 1889 | Brochure- Boston Gloucester Steamboat Co. | $325.00 | Anonymous | Brochure--Boston-Gloucester-Steamboat-Co- | Highly decorative and collectible folding coastal map/brochure from the Boston and Gloucester Steamboat Company 1889 season. Colorful, quaint map with ships wheel decoration (far right) is a full 7" x 15" when folded out from the brochure and would frame beautifully. Map covers the coast between Boston and Portland Maine including Salem, Marblehead, Newburyport, and Cape Ann. Includes steamer schedule and pier locations. <BR> </BR>
Front cover page contains a picturesque view of a steamboat with sails underway. Two pages include descriptions of sights along the route: Swampscott, Nahant, Marblehead… One-page advertisement for a new residential development near the Gloucester harbor- Eastern Point. |
| 469 |  | Details | van Campen, Jacob | 1661 | Architecture Title Page | $275.00 | van-Campen--Jacob | Architecture-Title-Page | Beautifully engraved title page to a volume of architectural drawings of the Amsterdam state house by artist Jacob Vennekool. The town hall was built by Jacob van Campen from 1648-55. The title page is adorned with putti playing trumpets and with symbols reflecting the importance of navigation and sea exploration to Amsterdam: ships, anchor, cannon, and three backstaffs, as well as two nude figures representing New World natives. Less than 50 years earlier, in 1614 the Dutch had founded a trading post in lower Manhattan that would later be call 'New Amsterdam'. <BR> </BR>
This page was published by Frederick de Widt (de Wit) in Amsterdam ca. 1661. Wit, a printer, publisher, and map seller, is well known today for the atlases and charts he published from Amsterdam in the mid to late 17th century. |
| 398 |  | Details | Freeman, Josiah | 1873 | Bark Ashore at Surfside | $270.00 | Freeman--Josiah | Bark-Ashore-at-Surfside | Stereoview phoby Nantucket photographer Joseph Freeman of the sailing bark Minmaneuth aground near Miacomet Pond on Nantucket's south shore. The vessel was enroute from Rio de Janiero to Boston with 4000 bags of coffee when she came ashore. The Minmaneuth was lightened of its load and refloated. The grounding had a positive result in that it prompted construction of a lifesaving station at Surfside beach. The stereoview shows passengers, shaded by parasols, sitting atop bags of coffee as they wait for the rest of the cargo to be unloaded. <BR> </BR>
The Nantucket Historical Association describes Freeman as the first of three great 19th century Nantucket photographers including Henry Wyer and Harry Platt. Josiah Freeman first opened a shop with David Coffin on the island in 1864 and remained in business until retirement in 1892. ( Historic Nantucket, Vol 35, no. 2 (Oct. 1987), p. 12-14) |
| 158 |  | Details | Mugnier, George Francois | 1884 | Lower Levee, Shipping | $200.00 | Mugnier--George-Francois | Lower-Levee--Shipping | Handsome, detailed, albumen cabinet card by New Orleans photographer George Francois Mugnier, taken early in his career circa 1884. Subjects are several 3-masted sailing vessels docked at a New Orleans wharf. Vessel closest to the wharf has sails partially unfurled, possibly to allow them to dry. Also, in the far backround a sailor is seen climbing the rigging of another ship. <BR> </BR>
The ship farthest from the wharf can be identified under magnification as the "Glen Grant". On the Canadian Heritage on-line reference library we find 5 voyages by a vessel named "Glen Grant" (official # 69115) to the U.S. Gulf Coast including a round-trip voyage from England to a single Gulf port, unnamed, departing September 1882, returning March 1883. It is possible that this photo was taken during that voyage by Mugnier. <BR> </BR>
Bottom of photo reads: "Mugnier, Photographer Exchange Place N.O. La." Mugnier (1855-1936) achieved fame as a photographer with his 1885 photographs of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans. Number 538. Blank, pinkish verso. |
| 458 |  | Details | Wilson, G.W. | 1857 | H.M.S. Impregnable | $150.00 | Wilson--G-W- | H-M-S--Impregnable | Attractively framed by branches, this stereoview of the British second-rate ship of the line H.M.S. Impregnable from 1857 was created by Scottish photographer G.W. Wilson. All three gun decks are clearly visible as the ship sits at anchor in Hamoaze, near Plymouth, England. The Impregnable, a close copy of Nelson's "Victory" was launched in 1811 and later refitted as a guard-ship. She saw action in the bombardment of Algiers in 1816. From 1862 to 1886 the Impregnable was used as a training ship for British naval cadets.<BR> </BR>
With two cancelled U.S. revenue stamps on the verso. Number 313. Manuscript annotation on verso reads: "Rundlet 27". |
| 134 |  | Details | Anonymous | 1882 | Track Chart Anchor Line Transatlantic Service | $135.00 | Anonymous | Track-Chart--Anchor-Line-Transatlantic-Service | Small chart of Atlantic Ocean produced by the Anchor Line shipping company used by passenger "Bertie Brown" to track his progress on a Transatlantic cruise. Details the daily position on a voyage from Ireland to New York departing September 29, 1882. Document on card stock folds into 3 parts. Front cover lists vessels owned by Anchor Line with their tonnage. With a profile view of a steamer underway. Expands to 10"x6". |
| 133 |  | Details | Anonymous | 1882 | Track Chart Norddentsher Lloyd, Bremen | $125.00 | Anonymous | Track-Chart--Norddentsher-Lloyd--Bremen | Small chart of Atlantic Ocean produced by the Norddentsher Lloyd shipping company that was used by a passenger to track his progress on a Transatlantic cruise. Details the daily position and miles made good on a voyage from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to England between August 31 and September 8, 1887 with a Captain Richler. With an inset of a steamer underway. |
| 135 |  | Details | Anonymous | 1902 | Track Chart Anchor Line American Mail Steamships | $115.00 | Anonymous | Track-Chart--Anchor-Line-American-Mail-Steamships | Small chart of Atlantic Ocean produced by the Anchor Line shipping company that was used by a passenger to track his progress on a Transatlantic cruise. Details the daily latitude and longitude on a 2689 mile voyage of the SS Anchonia between New York and Glasgow on Aug 9th - 19th, 1902. Daily position plots indicate a more northerly path than usual. <BR> </BR>
Document on card stock folds into 3 parts. Front cover lists vessels owned by Anchor Line with their tonnage and shows a frontal view of a steamer underway. Expands to 10"x6" |
| 423 |  | Details | Le Rouge, George | 1757 | Title Page from Recueil des Cotes Maritimes de France | $100.00 | Le-Rouge--George | Title-Page-from-Recueil-des-Cotes-Maritimes-de-France | Title page in landscape format from an atlas of the coasts of France printed in 1757. The copperplate engraving shows a scene of ships navigating near a rocky coast inset into a decorative scroll-work cartouche decorated with implements of war. Dedicated to the Comte de Clermont.<BR> </BR>
George Le Rouge was a Paris-based engineer and surveyor originally from Germany who had a shop on the Rue Des Grands Augustins. Le Rouge's tireless work earned him the title "Geographe du Roi". |
| 210 |  | Details | Freeman, Josiah | 1880 | Stereoview- Nantucket. | $75.00 | Freeman--Josiah | Stereoview--Nantucket- | Stereoview ca 1870-80 by Josiah Freeman of Nantucket. Scene looking out over Nantucket rooftops and gardens with a steam paddle wheeler rounding Brant Point Light House in the distance.<BR> </BR>
The Nantucket Historical Association describes Freeman as the first of three great 19th century Nantucket photographers including Henry Wyer and Harry Platt. Josiah Freeman first opened a shop with David Coffin on the island in 1864 and remained in business until retirement in 1892. ( Historic Nantucket, Vol 35, no. 2 (Oct. 1987), p. 12-14) |
| 289 |  | Details | Anonymous | 1904 | Brochure- Providence , Fall River and Newport Steamboat Co | $70.00 | Anonymous | Brochure--Providence---Fall-River-and-Newport-Steamboat-Co | Eight-page brochure and map for this northeast steamboat company. This small brochure, dated internally to 1904, contains desriptive information on each port and schedule of service.<BR> </BR> |
| 226 |  | Details | Anonymous | | Helfricht's label | $20.00 | Anonymous | Helfricht-s-label | Old antique maritime nautical mapsellers label by Helfricht |