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Macintyre, Captain Donald:  The Adventure of Sail 1520 - 1914
Book Number: 524
Great Britian 1975 traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design. Fine in good d/w. long 4to. 254 pp. Great Britian 1975.
Keywords: marine baoting sailing
Price: $40.00
G, Sambrooke Sturgess:  Yacht Racing - A Textbook of the Sport
Book Number: 626
1957, Yachting World, London Fair copy with some foxing on top edge, d/w with slight shelf wear.
Keywords: Yacht, sport, rules, regulations, I.Y.R.U. R.Y.A
Price: $10.00
Charles F. Chapman:  Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling - A Practical Treeatise Dealing with Those Branches of Motor Boating with Which Every Yachtsman Should Be Familiar.
Book Number: 627
New York 1944. A Complete Illustrated Course on Small Boat Work with Many Suggested Questions and Problems to Be Solved. Volume V - Motor Boating's Ideal Series.. Illustrated thoughout.
Keywords: Motor, yacht, handling, right of way, Nautical, tackle, signals, safety, knots, bends, hitches, splices, compass
Price: $45.00
Tony Meisel (ed):  Under Sail - Equipment for the Serious Sailor
Book Number: 628
Nautical Books 1982 (Macmillian) Illustrations by Peter Milne. Fully Illustrated. Excellent copy in VG d/w.
Keywords: Yacht, yachting, equipment, sailor, chandler, cruisers, racers, transoceanic, rigging, engines, interior, electronics, clothing
Price: $20.00
Feversham, Lord:  Great Yachts
Book Number: 793
 An authoritave history and an album of fine photographs. 4to Godd condition with torn d/w. 189pp. London 1970
Keywords: boating yachting yachts sailing
Price: $25.00
Carl D. Lane:  The Boatmans Manual - A Complete Manual of Boat Handling, Seamanship, Piloting & Navigation, Safety, First Aid, Boat Mantenance, Customs and Etiquette, Index
Book Number: 892
WW Norton & Co 1942 Excellent copy with clean pages in d/w with worn top and bottom edges and slight tears. Illustrated by author
Keywords: coastwise navigation, operation, rules, essentials, course, charts, signal, diagrams, engines, rescue, troubleshooting, beach landing, life boats
Price: $18.00
Bobrow, Jill & Jinkins, Dana::  The World's Most Extraordinary Yachts
Book Number: 1176
Concepts Publishing, 1986 oblong 4to, maroon cl with gilt lettering, tight binding and bright glossy pages, Fine in fine, p/c jacket. Previous owners inscription.
Keywords: Both motor and sailing vessels depicted in gorgeous color.
Price: $45.00
Peter Rose:  Sailing Though America
Book Number: 1348
Granada 1971 Excellent copy in same d/w. Illustrated with black and white photographs
Keywords: yachting, sailing, crossing the atlantic
Price: $12.00
Sailing Craft - Mostley Descriptive of Smaller Boats of the Day:  Edwin J. Schoettle
Book Number: 1371
The Macmillan Company 1946 Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Drawings by Harry Parker. Embodying writings of well known Sailors. Blue Cloth, no d/w, good copy, inscription on ffl.
Keywords: Lipton, Vanderbilt Jr., Swan helmsmen, Transatlantic Racing, International Star Great Lakes, Abroad, Cruising NY to Maine, Boat Racing, Marbelead, Buzzard¹s Bay, Newport, Southern California, Dark-Harbor
Price: $50.00
Strong, L. A. G.:  DR. QUICKSILVER 1660 - 1742. The Life And Times Of Thomas Dover, M.D.
Book Number: 1941
London:: Andrew Melrose, 1955 Green cloth, no d/w, clean inside. 18 illustrations reproduced in collotype. Appendix, bibliography, extended index. "A successful medical practitioner, born, in 1662, Dover turned aside from his work, became for three years a privateer, shared in the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, returned to medicine with a large fortune in prizre money and the bias which earned him his nickname, to spend his last ative years in violent and sometimes scurrilous medical controversy."
Keywords: Medicine Medicine Doctors History of Medicine Adventures of a British Doctor who defied medical quackery, and later sailed the ocenas as a pirate adventurer
Price: $25.00

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