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ALBION, Robert G.). LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.) LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.) BAKER, William A. LEWIS, Archibald R. ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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ALBION, Robert G.). LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.) LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.) BAKER, William A. LEWIS, Archibald R. Atlantic World of Robert G. Albion. In dj
Wesleyan UP, 1975,
LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.). The Atlantic World of Robert G. Albion. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, (1975). First Edition. Pp (4),v-vii,(3),3-263,(1). Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth spine, grey boards.
A collection of essays dedicated to the dean of American Maritime historians, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his seminal volume Forests and Sea Power. John H. Kemble's historiographical essay "Maritime History in the Age of Albion" contains reference to several movements in which Nova Scotia played a peripheral part, including the preservation of the Lunenburg Banks schooner Sherman Zwicker in Boothbay Harbor, Maine; Archibald Lewis' "The Medieval Background of American Atlantic Maritime Development" traces the European trading patterns onto which the Nova Scotian fisheries and Canadian fur tradewere later grafted; William A. Baker's "Fishing Under Sail in the North Atlantic" traces the development of vessels used in the Banks fisheries of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine from primitive shallops the great schooners of the late nineteenth century; Edward W. Sloan's "The Machine at Sea: Early Transatlantic Steam Travel" is an examination of conditions on transatlantic steam liners in the mid-nineteenth century taken from the reports of famous travelers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, R.H. Dana, and Charles Dickens, and makes passing references to Halifax, Samuel Cunard, and the Cunard Line; Benjamin W. Labaree's "The Atlantic Paradox" is an analysis of European and American cultural attitudes towards the Atlantic Ocean, which sketches the Maritime Provinces' place in the American coastwise and North Atlantic trades generally; Joan Bentinck-Smith's "The Writings of Robert G. Albion" is a bibliography referring the researcher to several valuable sources. With notes & index.
Vg to fine in dj. 45.00
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ALBION, Robert G.). LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.) LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.) BAKER, William A. LEWIS, Archibald R. Atlantic World of Robert G. Albion. no dj
1975,
(ALBION, Robert G.). LABAREE, Benjamin W. (ed.). The Atlantic World of Robert G. Albion. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, (1975). First Edition. Pp (4),v-vii,(3),3-263,(1). Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth spine, grey boards. Main Newfoundland interest in chapter 3 (pp.40-75, with 19 line- drawings of fishing vessels). Chapters: 1. John H. Kemble's "Maritime History in the Age of Albion"; 2. Archibald R. Lewis' "The Medieval Background of American Atlantic Maritime Development"; 3. William A. Baker's "Fishing Under Sail in the North Atlantic"; 4. Harold L. Burstyn's "Seafaring and the Emergence of American Science"; 5. Edward W. Sloan's "The Machine at Sea: Early Transatlantic Steam Travel"; 6. Jeffrey J. Safford's "The American Merchant Marine as an Expression of Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson and the Genesis of Modern Maritime Diplomacy"; 7. Clark G. Reynold's "The British Strategic Inheritance in American Naval Policy, 1775-1975"; 8. Benjamin W. Labaree's "The Atlantic Paradox"; 9. Joan Bentinck-Smith's "The Writings of Robert G. Albion". With notes & index. Vg. 35.00
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WILSON, C.J.A. BAKER, William A., notes HOLMAN, Richard B., intro. C.J.A. Wilson's Ships. 1st US no dj
Barre, 1971,
WILSON, C.J.A. C.J.A. Wilson's Ships. With notes and comments by William A. Baker. Introduction by Richard B. Holman. Barre, MA : Barre Publishers, 1971. First Printing. Pp 127. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo, orangebrown cloth. "Everyone with an interest in ships and the sea will have known and admired the marine prints, drawings, and etchings of the late C.J.A. Wilson." - from the dj [not present with this copy]. Light wear to cloth, ow vg. 30.00
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BAKER, William A. BAKER, William A. Sloops & Shallops. in dj
Barre, 1966,
BAKER, William A. Sloops & Shallops. Illustrations by the author. Barre, Mass.: Barre Pub. Co., 1966. Pp 174. Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth. This volume "continues the stuides of early North American vessels that [the author] began in his 'Colonial Vessels'." It focuses on the "development of shallops along the Atlantic seaboard and Chesapearke Bay from open work boats suitable for a number of uses to fully decked vessels employed in the offshore fisheries of New England." Also focuses on the construction of sloops, which served as an ulterior means of coastwise and offshore mercantile and fisheries practices. Vg in lightly nicked dj. 60.00
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