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5419cc. Treasury Department. INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNITED STATES COAST GUARD STATIONS. 1934. 130 pp. Includes general instructions, patrols and lookouts, equipment lists, boat drills and operation and complete beach apparatus drill. In addition, interesting instruction book for the use of Coast Guard Stations covers law enforcement duties of the Officer in charge, action at wrecks, patrols and lookouts, swimming qualifications, classification and descriptions of types of boats used at Coast Guard, boat equipment, various drills and commands, capsizing and righting drill, management of boats in a surf, boarding a vessel stranded or afloat in a heavy sea, signals for use at wrecks, US Storm Signals (with color plates showing day and night signals),ship and aircraft distress signals, resuscitation drill, Beach apparatus drill with great illustration of "Man the beach cart" this is followed by more illustrations showing halt and relative positions of men while placing apparatus, Hawser Cutter, muster at a station, piloting etc. The final section of the book is a question and answer section which is for the purpose of assisting the officers in charge in the instruction of the crews of US Coast Guard Stations. Besides the previously described illustrations there are also illustrations showing positions when shot line is bent to whip, hauling off whip, hauling off hawser, Man lee whip haul off, Man weather whip haul ashore, Hawser cutter arranged for hauling off etc. Gilt embossed black cloth covers, size is 4 3/8” by 6” inches. Moderate wear, intact, pages expected soiling and tight. Very difficult to find. (VG-). $118 net. 2213e Coast Guard. A MANUAL FOR LIFEBOAT STATIONS (CG-212). June 1949. 203pp. Stamped ”Point Judith Lifeboat Station”. Includes general instructions, patrols and lookouts, equipment lists, boat drills and operation beach apparatus drill and more. In addition, interesting instruction book for the use of Coast Guard Stations covers law enforcement duties of the Officer in charge, action at wrecks, patrols and lookouts, classification and descriptions of types of boats used at Coast Guard Stations, boat equipment, etc. Excellent diagrams provide good views of equipment including the new steel beach apparatus trailer, steel shot-line canister and more. Black flexible cloth covers, size is 5 1/4 by 7 ¾” inches with post binding. Condition is good, flat, tight, very little wear. Includes some updates and out of date pages removed, etc. (VG). $76 net.
29222.
[full page plate] United States Life-Saving Service,
1899-1915. The Company of Military Historians. Winter 1976. Two page
article with b/w full page plate details the various uniforms used by the United
States Life-Saving Service including Keeper’s uniform, cook, surfman winter
and other dress, storm suit, summer uniform and more. Also includes numerous
pieces of equipment including Lyle gun, powder box, beach lantern, early station
and more. The Company of Military Historians has published a continuing series
of articles and military prints, Military Uniforms in
21344b. Hagar, George J., THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE – Its Origin, Progress, and Present Condition. Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. 1878. Pp. 165-183. Disbound. Extremely detailed article describes in great detail the early history of the Service and the work that the crews perform. Includes are lengthy descriptions of the equipment employed along with wonderful engraved illustrations of the stations and equipment. Detailed illustrations include early stations, Senator William A. Newell, Sumner I Kimball, beach apparatus, lifeboats, Francis Metallic Life car, and more. Scarce early article. Clean, crisp, excellent illustrations. (VG+). $26.
2974. Long, Charles A. E., Matinicus Isle – Its Story and Its People. Lewiston. 1926. 235+p. Facsimile copy. Excellent source of history and genealogical information about the rocky island of Matinicus, located 60 miles east of Portland. Includes information about the light station there, and particularly the keepers and their families. A rarely found and sought-after reference on the subject. The one copy that I can find on line lists for $120. Older photocopy, post bound. $44.
29204. (program) Exhibition of the United States Life Saving Service Crew, Magnolia, Mass. 1905. 4p.Rare folded program details the drill events to be presented by the experienced crew of the Gloucester Life-Saving Station including use of their Beebe McLellan Self-bailing surf-boat. Also appearing in the demonstrations, acting as the sailor in distress, was to be a sailor recently wrecked and actually rescued by the crew of the Cahoon’s Hollow Life Saving Station on Cape Cod in 1896. Clean, light wear, brittle at one early fold. Rare memento. (VG-). $46. 29218. Life-Saving Service. Directions For Restoring The Apparently Drowned for Saving Drowning Persons By Swimming To Their Relief and for the Treatment Of Frostbites As Practiced In The U.S. Life-Saving Service. Washington Government Printing Office, 1901. 17p. Soft wraps. Rare early pamphlet, some illustrations. Unusually clean, crisp, Very little wear. (VG+). $74.
4365i.
United States Life-Saving Service. INSTRUCTIONS
TO MARINERS IN CASE OF SHIPWRECK WITH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LIFE-SAVING
STATIONS UPON THE COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington. GPO. 1908.
Revised edition. 56p. Contains information and instructions for use by
mariners so that proper co-ordination between life-savers and sailors in
distress will be achieved. Includes information on the use of breeches buoy
apparatus, signaling, rescue by surfboat, and much more. Also includes complete
listing of all Life-Saving Districts and stations in the united States.
Three-part folded case with printed cover. Folded, 3” x 6” with rear
pocket, illustrated. Unusually clean, tight, hinges intact [most unusual] in
very nice condition. (VG+) . $328 net. 4371f.
Elliot, Major George H., REPORT OF A TOUR OF INSPECTION
OF EUROPEAN LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENTS MADE IN 1873.
27321.
Form No. 30. Keeper George W. Purdy, Gay Head Light Station, Sankaty Head LS, East Chop LS Keeper Purdy was well known for his hard work despite his daunting disability - Purdy had lost an arm in an accident in the engine room of the lighthouse tender Azalea some years earlier. The Vineyard Gazette editions of May, 1928 noted an incident that tells of Purdy’s determination: “George W. Purdy, one-armed keeper of East Chop lighthouse, has previously astonished his acquaintances with his engineering feat, but his latest one is the more remarkable of any yet performed. Supplies for the light are landed on the beach at the foot of the high bluff on which the lighthouse is situated. All along the shore of the government reservation is a heavy wall of loose boulders, weighing from one to several hundred pounds each. Placed in an unbroken line to prevent the sea from wearing away the bank, they lie at the water's edge and prevent boats from landing. Because of this, it has been necessary for the lighthouse tender's boat to land on a privately-owned beach, from which the supplies had to be carried over to the government beach and thence up the bank by a flight of stairs. As this made much extra work for Mr. Purdy, he has been engaged in building a boat landing during the past winter, and the completed job is a thing to marvel at. Several boulders, weighing hundreds of pounds, were moved by Mr. Purdy, who worked with his spade and a huge wooden pry to accomplish it. Nearly anyone who considers the prodigious amount of labor necessary in such construction will agree that Mr. Purdy's one arm is worth more than two as used by the average man.”
4410g. Light-House Board, INSTRUCTIONS TO LIGHT-KEEPERS AND MASTERS OF LIGHT-HOUSE VESSELS. GPO. 1902. 55 pages of instructions plus 37 photo and large fold-out plates. Once property of Keeper George Purdy, East Chop Lighthouse, Martha’s Vineyard. Contains a wealth of information, particularly in the plates for use in identifying lamps. Includes complete Instructions for Light-Keepers in Stations with Two or More Keepers, Light Stations With One Keeper, Keepers of Light-Vessels, Management of Lens Lights and Disposition of Lamps and Illuminating Apparatus, Management of Mechanical Lamps, Revolving Machinery, trimming of wicks, morning duties, and much more. Includes all aspects of station and apparatus maintenance. Excellent plates detail all types of lamps and lighting apparatus, lanterns, revolving apparatus, fog signal equipment, bell striking apparatus, and more. Also laid in is a pamphlet “Illustrated List of Parts of the Hornsby-Akroyd Patent Safety Oil Engine”. This engine was used for pumping air to supply fog signals. A very complete and important document. Contents generally clean and tight. Light soiling and foxing to endpapers, covers gilt embossed, moderate wear and soiling, hinges weakening. (VG-). $565 net.
29209. Robertson, Martha. A Quiet Life. Whittles. 1997. 199p. Soft wraps. From their inception and through the early years of this century, long before automation, lighthouses were manned by keepers, often with their families in residence. In the case of the Petrie family, in 1922, their number included a new arrival, Martha. Over the years Martha, or Mattie as she was nicknamed, went with her parents to several lighthouse postings around the British Isles. Growing up in the unusual environment that constitutes a lighthouse station, where going out to play can be a major hazard, Mattie witnessed much of which most children could only dream. This book is her story - an account of the unique life of the lighthouse where the mundane activities of a mainland existence become exciting, certainly different and often downright near impossible. Growing up in the 20s and 30s, describing the war years and life in the Wrens, Martha Robertson brings to her story a delightful warmth and more than a touch of humor. This is a truly unusual account of an existence that has disappeared forever as automation puts the seal on lightkeeping as a thing of the past. (VG+). $29.
29212. Claudy, C. H. THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 11pp. The World Today Magazine. May 1907. Quite a fine article on the extent and operation of the United States Lighthouse Service, with a bit about its history, with a number of examples of light stations and lightships, life at these outposts, and more. Excellent descriptions. And includes nine large half-tone engravings. Full issue filled with fine articles of the day. Contents clean, tight, wraps light wear and soiling. (VG-). $38.
29213a. William H. Flayhart. Perils of the Atlantic: Steamship Disasters, 1850 to the Present. New York. 2003. 1st. DJ. 380p. 26 illustrations. The author retells classic ocean liner disaster stories while bringing to light never-before-published but compelling episodes in man's ongoing battle with the sea. A gripping, colorful and deadly history of ocean liner disasters from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Perils of the Atlantic is a chronicle of the most frightening episodes in the maritime history of the North Atlantic. From 1850 to the present day, the Atlantic has been home to hundreds of ocean liners and cruise ships, each more lavish than the last...all of them symbols of wealth and luxury. Many of us know the stories of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Both tragedies caused tremendous loss of life, even as they made the ships immortal. But there are many little-known accounts of extraordinary survivals at sea, such as the Inman and International liner City of Chicago that jammed her bow into an Irish peninsula in 1892 but stayed afloat long enough for all to be rescued, or the City of Richmond that survived a dangerous fire in 1891, and a year earlier the City of Paris, whose starboard engine exploded at full speed in the mid-Atlantic and yet miraculously still made port. Often such tales are forgotten even if the ship sank: In 1898 the Holland-America liner Veendam hit a submerged wreck and sank at sea, but all lives were saved—so this vessel's dramatic story seemed less important in maritime history than incidents involving human loss. As recently as 2000, the Sea Breeze I sank off the East Coast of the United States while on a positioning voyage, but all her crew members were rescued in a heroic effort by U.S. Coast Guard helicopters. These stories and many others are dramatic, and acclaimed maritime scholar William Flayhart has spent much of the last forty years in search of material from which to create colorful narratives. It is a first-class work; I recommend it highly. (VG). $24. 29115. (document) Letter of Introduction for Charles F. Allen c.1888. One page letter on stationery of the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company, recommending Mr. Allen for a position either on the road or in the shops, noting that Mr. Allen was a thorough and competent machinist. Some years later Mr. Allen would perfect and receive patents for a number of inventions, and later would become a lighthouse keeper on the West Coast at stations including Humboldt Bay and Point Hueneme, California, serving the Lighthouse Service for thirty-eight years. For 15 years he was keeper at the big government station at Point Conception. Document is overall clean with some wear and original folds. (VG-). $28.
Lot of original U.S. Lighthouse Service, Letters of Appointment as Keeper, Humboldt Light Station, Point Hueneme Light Station, Point Conception Light Station, California, to Charles F. Allen c.1890’s. Please see Charts & Documents page. JOURNAL OF LIGHT STATION LOVELL’S ISLAND RANGE LIGHT, Boston Harbor.
D-03. U. S. Lighthouse Service. JOURNAL OF LIGHT STATION FOR THE LIGHT STATION AT LOVELL’S ISLAND RANGE LIGHT, BOSTON HARBOR, MASSACHUSETTS July 1, 1911 to November 30, 1919. Lovell’s Island Range Lights were erected in 1902 for the accommodation o f mariners coming up the South Channel of Broad Sound, Boston Harbor. The lights were placed in the charge of Keeper Alfred G. Eisener [shown in photo standing at base of tower- photo not included. Known as a poet and a writer, Keeper Eisner is best known for his book Dan, or the Gale of ‘73. In 1919 Eisener was succeeded by Charles H. Jennings, who later transferred to Boston Light. The light was extinguished in 1939 and subsequently torn down. This historic log records the careers of both keepers of this important light station. “….June 30, 1919….This page closes my Light-House life, consisting of 35 years of service, beginning at Cape Ann, ending at Lovell’s Island, Mass. Alfred G. Eisener [Keeper]….” SUPERB Original intact standard issue Light-House Journal: Hard bound folio with half-calf spine and corners. Spine is labeled in gilt embossed letters “306 – Journal of Light Station – Light-House Establishment – Department of Commerce and labor”. Volume measures 14” high by 8 ½” wide and contains 202 form pages completed in the hand of Keepers Alfred G. Eisener, and Charles Harold Jennings, covering the period from July 1, 1911 to November 30, 1919. This type of record was kept at all stations and contained daily listings of important events, bad weather and other special notes. Each page is signed in the hand of the Keeper. Some of the special notes include Sept. 30, 1918 when the light was extinguished for the duration of the Great War, November 11, 1918 Great War practically ended today – Armistice signed, and sadly: “This page closes my light-house life, consisting of 35 years of service, beginning at Cape Ann, ending at Lovell’s Island, Mass.” signed Keeper Alfred G. Eisener. Also noted are the signatures of the District Inspector after inspection of the station with dates of inspection and various notes. Back endpapers used by keepers to record period of absences during the years. Pages are in good condition, generally clean and tight. Binding lightly soiled, with expected light wear. Hinges are worn, front wrap present but detached, back intact but worn. Spine intact and legible. Spine is clearly gilt embossed: “306 – Journal of Light Station – Light-House Establishment – Department of Commerce and labor” (VG). Reduced to $995. 29127. na. American Merchant Seaman’s Manual. Ed. Felix M. Cornell and Allan C. Hoffman. Cambridge. 1964. 5th. 834p. Stiff wraps. Property stamp on frontis “Commanding Officer, Shinnecock Coast Guard Station, Hampton Bays, N.Y. 11946.” The American Merchant Seaman’s Manual has been the primary seamanship text and reference book for the American Merchant Marine for more than sixty years. Merchant mariners going to sea for the first time need to know as much about their new job, their ship, the sea, and the Merchant Marine as they can. From Marlinespike Seamanship to Navigation and Weather, this manual is designed to provide the knowledge that these new seamen need to embark upon their careers at sea. Clean, crisp. (VG+). $48.
29228. (comic strip) Hawkshaw the Detective – The Thrilling Tale of the Fourth of July Excursion and the Shifted Light. June 1919. Hawkshaw the Detective was a comic strip character featured in an eponymous cartoon serial by Gus Mager between 1913 and 1922, and again from 1931 to 1952. Twelve frames pasted to three album pages follows Detective Hawkshaw as he attempts to locate river pirates. He falls right into their hands as the pirates have tied up the crew at the Life-Saving Station and moved the light beacon to lure the ship onto the rocks. Read the remaining frames as the pirates fire the life line to the ship and Detective Hawkshaw comes ashore in the breeches buoy. A great early Life-Saving Service related comic strip. Overall clean, some wear and tattering. (VG-). $38.
29151. Jones, E. Lester. The Neglected Waters of the Pacific Coast – Washington, Oregon and California. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Special Publication #48. GPO. 1918. 21p. Stiff wraps. Believe it or not, the Pacific coastline in 1918 had yet to be properly surveyed as the east coast had. This detailed report looks at the history of surveys of the area, harbors and the many shipwrecks occurring along the coast and discusses the need for such a survey. Includes a great deal on past shipwrecks, complete with numerous fold-out charts and photo plates. Some of the wrecks and their causes discussed at some length include the Steamer Bear, U.S.S. Milwaukee (1917) , Steamers Santa Rosa (1911) and Santa Clara (1915), steamer Valencia (1906) and more. Overall clean, tight, some wear to wraps. (VG-). $84.
29162. Powers, Paul A. They That Go Down To The Sea - A Bicentennial Pictorial History of the United States Coast Guard 1790-1990. Pub. by Chief Petty Officers Association (Taylor Pub. Co.), 1990, 11" x 9", 208 pages. Foreword by Alex Haley. DJ. Filled with hundreds of vintage photos and illustrations, covering the Coast Guard’s 200-year history from the early Revenue Cutter Service sailors; the Civil War era 1861-65; the Cutter Bear in Alaska; The U. S. Lighthouse Service; WWI; WWII; Ocean Stations; Vietnam; Coast Guard Aircraft; Coast Guard Cutters and Craft and more. A book about the people and how they lives, about life on board the early cutters and at the light stations, about fighting the raging surf, or a gun battle during the war. A pictorial history of the men and women who have left their mark on the story of America. Long out of print, very difficult to find. (F). $112.
22566c na. THOREAU’S
6366x.
Putnam, George R. LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS OF THE
UNITED STATES. 926b.
Anderson, Charles M., ISLE OF VIEW – A History of
9321. Bennett, Captain Robert F., (USCG Ret.) SAND POUNDERS. Coast Guard’s Historian’s Office. 1999. 193p. Soft Wraps. Released just ten years ago, is this interesting work by this noted Coast Guard author. This detailed work takes a different approach - interpreting the history and work of the Life-Saving Service as based on its Annual Reports for the years 1870 through 1914. Hundreds of details and interpretations are pointed out here that rarely find their way into most books on the subject, making this a most informative work and well worth adding to your library. Illustrated with 25 vintage photographs and engravings. This title is long out of print. A copy surfaces only every few years - most interesting and well worth the price. $58. 980b. Kobbe’, Gustav. HEROES
OF PEACE – VOLUNTEER LIFE-SAVERS. 8p. Century Illustrated Monthly
Magazine. June 1899. Disbound. Details the work of the early life saving crews
including the Massachusetts Humane Society and noted life-saver Joshua James. In
addition, individuals who have assisted the Life-Saving Service are given due
credit including three women and a lad assisted the keeper of the Long Beach LSS,
who rescued the crew of the bark Martha P. Tucker at Point Lookout, Long Island.
Also highlighted are West Coast and Great Lakes rescues, and work of the Gay
Head Indians in rescuing survivors of the City of
21493c. Couch, Danny, Noah Price and
Shawn Gray. THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
LIFE-SAVING SERVICE ON
22156L,m. [powder can label] DU
PONT LIFE SAVING SERVICE POWDER CAN LABEL. Original label from the
square tin can that once held black powder manufactured by E. I. Du Pont De
Nemours & Company possibly for the Life-Saving Service. On the side was
affixed this very nice circular label with a scene of a Life-Saving Service boat
pulling toward a wreck in the background, surrounded by “DU PONT LIFE SAVING
SERVICE POWDER. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company,
21460d. Lighthouse Service. THE
UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE.
20218d. Vent, 964. [training manual]
2966. 2972. [lighthouse logbook] Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries. Lighthouse Service. Diary for Hand Horn or Fog Bell. Providence Bay Lighthouse. c.1921 -1922. 6pages (months). Soft wraps. Interesting printed log book used at Providence Bay Lighthouse on Lake Huron in the province of Ontario. This dairy has hand written daily documentation for the weather conditions for the months of May, June, July, and August of 1921 and June and October 1922. According to the instructions in the diary, the forms were to be torn out monthly and forwarded to the home office. Entrys include times of thick weather, time of start and stop of horn, and remarks on weather conditions. The Providence Bay Lighthouse was built on the south shore of Manitoulin Island in 1904. When the lighthouse was destroyed by a fire, it was replaced by a skeleton tower that was deactivated in 1973. Printed on the inside front cover of the journal are the printed instruction for the lighthouse keeper’s responsibility in maintaining the journal as instructed by A. Johnston, Deputy Minister. Logbook has marbled wraps with original orange tape spint. Moderate wear, some tape repairs as expected. Overall fairly clean. (VG-). $144 net.
27152. [lighthouse logbook] Canadian Department of Transportation, Light Station Engine Room Diary c.1950-70’s. 30p. Soft wraps. Interesting printed log book / engine room diary for use at light station to record running times and and other pertinent information for engines and generators, hoist engines, pumps, etc. Logbook is pristine, never used, clean, tight, complete with original carbon papers tipped in. (VG+). $74 net.
2329. na. OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE APRIL 1, 1880 (WITH POST OFFICE ADDRESSES). April 1, 1880. GPO. 19p. Original soft wraps. Scarce booklet includes complete listings of Superintendent, assistants, Inspector of Life-Saving Stations, assistants, District Superintendents, assistants, Board for Examination of plans and devices, complete listing of all station Keepers with mailing addresses, and complete listing of Life-Saving Districts and stations. In original wraps, clean, crisp, as new and probably never opened. Extremely rare opportunity to obtain this original booklet and needed information in remarkable condition. (F). $125. 2975. Gowdy, Jim. GUIDING LIGHTS OF THE
2976. (view book) na. Attractive Bits Along Shore : Portsmouth, Rye Beach, Isles Of Shoals, Old York, Kittery Point. Portland, Maine. 1890. H. Wilbur Hayes. Red cloth hardcover. 7” x 10”. 94p. This scarce turn of the century view book of the New Hampshire coast features more than 64 large full and half page photo-gravures of local views. Views include Kittery (Portsmouth) Navy Yard, Lieut. Greeley’s Fleet, Wallis Sands Life Saving Station, Fort Constitution and lighthouse, Frigate Constitution, USS Kearsarge, Kittery Navy Yard, Celia Thaxter’s cottage, Isles of Shoals, Star Island Harbor, Whale’s Back Lighthouse, Boon Island, Nubble Lighthouse, mills and historic homes, harbors, brewers, many churchs, street scenes, navel scenes and much more. Combined with 30 pages of descriptive text, this book is wonderful for reading or research. Quite nice views, scarce booklet. Binding has some wear and spotting. Pages are intact but spine is becoming loose. Light to moderate occasional soiling. Scarce. (VG-). $74.
2950. [woodcut engraving] Fresnel Lens – Elevation View c.1800-1860. 10” x 13”. From early engineering magazine. Beautiful, clear and detailed engraving shows elevation view of large Fresnel lens apparatus on pedestal. The view is most detailed and would be a must for anyone publishing works on the subject or simply interested in the early lens apparatus. A scarce early engraving, would be quite stunning matted for framing. One early fold, otherwise clean and bright. (VG-). $66.
7295e. Inglis, William. LIFE-SAVERS
ON OLD MALABAR. Harper’s Monthly. January 1908. 11p. Excellent
account of the Life-Savers on
A-165.
[set 6 trade cards] Liebig Company Lighthouse Set
c.1880. Set of six turn of the century trade cards for Liebig
Company’s Vegitable Extract. Published by Liebig’s Company in
A-164. Light House – Reward of Merit c.1860. The Reward of Merit, a small token of congratulation, was given by the teacher to a pupil for amongst other things punctual attendance, good conduct and improvement at school. Small chromolithographed cards were a popular medium for rewards of merit in the late 19th century and were carefully pasted into scrap albums later where they could be viewed at family gatherings to show the children's accomplishments at school. This early piece has a fine early engraving of a lighthouse by Childs, and the poem “Light House”, with a red border decoration. The obverse bears the words “Reward of Merit To….. From….Teacher…. [date] ..186”. Clean and crisp, piece has been protected in older frame but could bear re-framing. A beautiful piece for decoration or collecting. Reward measures 2 ½” x 4”. (VG). $88.
2931. Eldridge, Muriel and Richard. The Lighthouse keeper’s Daughter. A Play in One Act. New York. Samuel French pub. 1935. 16p. Soft wraps. A laughable pantomimed farce, showing that virtue hath its just reward. The lighthouse keeper’s daughter, an innocent maiden, has a villainous suitor who plots to gain her father’s money and then to slay him. At dusk he accomplishes his task and escapes, but the attempted murder is discovered in time for the handsome doctor to save him, and win the hand of the daughter. An interesting early play. Light wear, page loose, overall good condition in original blue wraps. (VG-). $14.
X-01. Smeaton, John [1724-1792]. A NARRATIVE OF THE BUILDING AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE WITH STONE: TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, AN APPENDIX, GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIGHTHOUSE ON THE SPURN POINT, BUILT UPON A SAND. London. 1793. Second Edition, corrected. Folio [approx. 21” x 15”] . 198 pages. Completely illustrated with 23 large original engraved plates. First published in 1791, this more sought after second edition was published , correcting the errors that appeared in the 1791 edition. Bound and rebacked with calf, gilt embossed label on spine, marbled boards. Most rare, only three known in the past ten years. A detailed and complete original day-to-day account of the construction of the famed Eddystone Lighthouse by the design engineer himself. A very detailed account, particularly of the repeated frustrations and efforts of the designers and workers at this exposed site, the storms and rescues and their ultimate success. This most important work covers the history of the lighthouse, the construction of lighthouse towers, illumination and sources of light, catoptric system of lights, and much more. John Smeaton is generally considered to be one of the world’s greatest lighthouse engineers, whose work became the foundation for all else to follow. This was Smeaton's first project as civil engineer. Two earlier lights on the Eddystone reef had been destroyed and this system of dovetailing and interlocking stone developed by Smeaton was used for offshore lighthouses for centuries to follow. The longevity of the Eddystone light is a lasting tribute to his genius. A very complete and excellent work on the subject by this renown early lighthouse engineer. With 23 large 12” x 17” engraved plates including Winstanley’s original lighthouse, Elevation and Section of Rudyers’s Lighthouse, Elevation and Plan Views of Eddystone Rock, 1759 lighthouse [multiple views], Plans of Stone Construction, Horizontal and Vertical Sections of the Eddystone Lantern with Chandeliers, Construction process and equipment, Millwork Furniture and Utensils, Sectional View of High Lighthouse Upon the Spurn Point, and much more. A scarce and important museum quality reference, a MUST for the serious and quite scarce. Overall clean, pages bright but with some light foxing about the margins, cover page some light soiling and foxing, possibly rebacked professionally in the past, with new endpapers, quite crisp and tight. With library stamps for Garrison Library, Malta but none obscure text. This is one of the most important works in the history of civil engineering. This item is of museum quality, and is extremely rare, only a few known copies. (VG). $1,680 net.
2772a,b.
Bearse, Clarkson P. Sr. THE TRAGEDY OF 2932. Mason, John. Disaster off Monomoy. Yankee Magazine. March 1968. 5p. One of the most distressing on the Massachusetts coast. It resulted in the drowning of 12 persons, 5 from the stranded coal barge Wadena and 7 from the crew of the Monomoy Life-Saving Station. The circumstances of this lamentable ship wreck and sacrifice of the life-saving men is related in this riveting account. Early in the evening of March 10, 1902, following the rescue of the crew of the barge Wadena, the life-saving crew struggled to maneuver their surfboat from the wreck. As the heavy seas pounded the surfboat, the panicked crewmen from the barge stood up, clinging to the surfmen as they struggled to work their oars. Just then a heavy wave rose up, fell broadside upon them, and the boat went over, throwing all into the churning ocean. The men clung to the overturned craft, but in the freezing waters soon the sailors and rescuing surfmen succumbed to the sea one by one. The awful tragedy was almost complete and poor Surfman Ellis, the lone remaining sole, was nearly hopeless, but the boat eventually drifted into less turbulent water. The centerboard slipped part way out of the trunk so that he could clutch it and hold his place far more securely. Nevertheless, he might soon have perished had not assistance soon reached him. The barge Fitzpatrick, which had stranded at the same time as the Wadena, was still intact on the shoal. On board were Captain Andrew Welsh, master, Captain Benjamin Mallows, marine underwriter, and Captain Elmer F. Mayo of Chatham, in charge of wrecking operations. Mayo quickly went to the rescue in the barge’s dory and with superior efforts was able to drag surfman Ellis into the boat. The loss of seven men from the Monomoy crew and five from the stranded barge plunged Cape Cod into a deep gloom. In recognition of Mayo’s extraordinary merits, the Secretary of the Treasury bestowed upon him the Gold Lifesaving Medal, awarded only to those who display the most extreme and heroic daring in saving life from the perils of the sea. Surfman Ellis, for his devotion to duty, his faultless courage, and his self-sacrificing fidelity to his comrades, was likewise honored. He was also promoted to keeper of his station. Oddly, years later, when writing the original article in 1925, the author photographed Mr. Mayo with all of his medals, but Seth Ellis refused to pose, and neither would comment on what was probably the largest event in their lives. Residents of Chatham noted that neither man had spoken to the other ever since the incident – we wonder why? This most interesting article includes a fine large photograph of Elmer Mayo, one of the few close views ever taken. Full issue, wonderful New England articles. (VG). $32.
2267. [commemorative coin] 1 ¼” silver coin commemorating the Centennial
of the Peak of the U. S. Life Saving Service in Chatham, Cape Cod Mass.
Issued in 1983, the face has a raised figure of a lifesaver on foul
weather gear with lantern and flare in hand, with “Surfman” in raised
letters to his right and “U.S. Life Saving Service” to his left with
“Chatham Massachusetts 1/2 troy ounces, .999 fine silver” around
border. Obverse has raised scene of surfboat being rowed to a wrecked ship
during a violent storm with “Lifesavers Of Chatham Peak Of Service
Centennial 1883 1983” around border. Coin comes in its original fitted
maroon velveteen box which has Cape Cod Mint in silver letters on white
satin inside cover. Each bronze and silver coin is one of only 1000
minted by Larry Williams of Cape Cod Mint in 1983. This remains a fine,
sought after 2671.
[commemorative coin] 1 ¼” silver coin commemorating Wind
Power in Chatham, Cape Cod Mass. Issued in 1984, the face has a
raised figure of the Chatham windmill with “Chatham Massachusetts 1/2
troy ounces, .999 fine silver.” around the border. Obverse has raised
scene of another windmill pumping water to the salt beds with “Wind
Power in Chatham” around the border and “Old Salt Works” in the
scene. Coin comes in its original fitted maroon velveteen box which has
Cape Cod Mint on white satin inside cover. Each bronze and silver
coin is one of only 500 minted by Larry Williams of Cape Cod Mint in 1984.
This remains a fine, sought after
558e. O’Connor, William D. HEROES
OF THE STORM. [With an introduction by Sumner I. Kimball,
Superintendent of the United States Life-Saving Service.]
25351a. Rice, Frederick Jr. THE
LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.
2704. Davis, Rebecca Harding. LIFE
SAVING STATIONS- History, Anecdotes, and Famous Shipwrecks, Etc. Reprint
from Lippincott's Magazine (Mar. 1876): pp. 301-310. This article by Rebecca
Harding Davis, originally appearing in Lippincott's Magazine in 1876, presents
an interesting discussion of the history of life saving stations, surf boats,
and wrecking crews in the United States and particularly along the coast of Newe
Jersey. Written as an interview with several old-hands at a life saving station
on the Jersey Coast, includes anecdotes, discussion of the history of the
lifeboat service in Britain and the U.S., pilfering of wrecked ships, life
saving apparatus, etc. A scarce reference to early coastal lifesaving services
in the New Jersey and Long Island area, with mention of several shipwrecks. New,
staple bound card stock covers. Dimensions: 8.5x11 inches Page Count: 11. (M).
$9.95.
20230. Farson, Robert H., TWELVE MEN DOWN – Massachusetts Sea Rescues. Yarmouth Port. 2000. 246p. 191 photos and illustrations. In Colonial Days Massachusetts turned to the sea for her livelihood. With the growth of coastal and deepwater fleets, many trips ended in disaster. The loss of life was so great that in the late 1700’s the Massachusetts Humane Society was formed. Their work up to World War II, and the work of its successor the U. S. Life-Saving Service, are detailed in this wonderful new work. From Martha’s Vineyard and Cuttyhunk, to Nantucket, Cape Cod and up the coast to Salisbury Beach , there were small stations with surfboats and breeches buoy apparatus. This is a book about rescues near the coast by men who rowed small boats into mountainous waves, many in bitterly cold weather. Thousands of sailors were saved by these intrepid men and their story of selfless dedication comes alive in Mr. Farson’s work. Nicely illustrated with numerous vintage photographs. (M). (Published at $36.) Special Purchase Price $24.95.
2919.
(halftone print) The United States Government
Lighthouse and Signals Exhibit [at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago.
1894]. Disbound from Reminiscences of the Fair. Vol.1, No.12, April
16, 1894. Large 8” x 10” b/w view of the Lighthouse Establishment exhibit at
the 1894 World Exposition in
5359g.
Reynaud, M. Leonce [...Director of the Light and Buoy Service...] MEMOIR
UPON THE ILLUMINATION AND BEACONAGE OF THE COAST OF
A-166, 168. (posters) U.S. Coast Guard 1955-1960. 30" x 40". Some wear to edges. Rolled. Rare designs. (G-VG). $96 each.
2913. (documents) Charles F. Geiss, Assistant Supervisor, Telephone Lines, U.S. Coast Guard, 1917-1918. Early lot includes over 175 pieces relating to the construction and repair of U.S. Coast Guard telephone lines connecting stations in Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York during the wartime period of 1917-1918. Lot includes 91 telegrams and 84 letters, on official Coast Guard stationery, many signed by Captain Commandant E.P. Bertholf, Acting Captain Commandant D. P. Foley, R. R. Waesche (later Commandant of the Coast Guard), and more. All are addressed to Charles F. Geiss, Assistant Supervisor, Telephone Lines, U.S. Coast Guard and are dated 1917 or 1918. Geiss was based in Green bay, Wisconsin but spent considerable time in Florida overseeing projects there. These items are sewn into early letters received binder for his files. Subjects covered include laying cables to lighthouses in the Florida Keys, connecting Coast Guard Stations and 8 Houses of Refuge, as well as lighthouses along Florida’s east coast, as well as connecting stations and Weather Bureau offices on the Great Lakes, and more. Some of the stations mentioned include: (Florida) Jacksonville, Key West, Miami, Fort Pierce, Titusville, houses of refuge (8), Cape Canaveral, Hillsboro Inlet, Fowey Rocks, Carysfort, Sombrero Key, American Shoals, Mosquito Inlet; (Great Lakes) White Fish Point, Sleeping Bear Dunes [Point], Beaver Island, Glen Haven, Manitou Islands; (New York) Orient Point, Long Island, Plum Island. Documents are sewn into an early letters received binder. Some are a bit brittle or worn but have overall been protected. Binder is well worn, covers present but one detached. Lot provides a most interesting look into this aspect of early Coast Guard communications between stations, particularly during wartime. (G+). $195. U. S. Lighthouse Service b/w presentation slides c.1920-30
28450. (Lot over 117 glass projection slides) U. S. Lighthouse Service b/w presentation slides c.1920-30. This lot was found in the Ludington Coast Guard station in the 1970’s-80’s. The lot was produced by the Lighthouse Service and was likely used in various presentations put on by the U.S. Lighthouse Service and Coast Survey in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Slides measure 3 ¼” x 4” and contain fine, clear b/w photographic images of all aspects of the operation of the U.S. Lighthouse Service including light vessels, tenders, construction of lighthouses, lenses, lamps, fog signal equipment, radiobeacons, clock rotation equipment, airways beacons, interior views, flasher and burner mechanisms, lamp changers, models, buoys, historical letters, submarine signals and much more. Glass slides are all in very good condition, most excellent. There are only three or four that have an cracks or damage at all, and these are minor cracks in the corner of the glass. Each is nicely labeled as to subject and/or location, sometimes with date of image. Please inquire.
2916. (gravure print) Screw Pile Lighthouse. c.1890. Large early gravure print provides a great view of an early screw pile lighthouse. Possibly a prototype, this image is was probably done by the U.S. Light House Establishment for an annual report or other publication. Image measures 4” x 8 ½” on original 8 ½” x 12 ½” mat. Great, clear image, some soiling and foxing to mat. (VG-). $42. 999. [Coast Guard] U. S. COAST GUARD MAGAZINE Publication of the U. S. Coast Guard. c.1935-38. Filled with informative notes and articles about the men and stations in all of the districts, including life at some of these remote stations and more. Includes some particularly good notes on the duty, beach patrol, rescues, sinking and damage, notes of the districts and more. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and wartime cartoons. Staple bound, soft wraps, 46 - 80 pages. Have many issues dating from January 1935 to October 1938 [not inclusive]. (VG). Have 87 issues dating from January 1941 to June 1957 [not inclusive]. (VG). @ $8 each.
2904. (Architect’s view) Light House at Spectacle Reef, Lake Huron. c.1887. American Architect and Building News. March 26, 1887. A beautifully detailed, hand colored, original plan image from the American Architect and Building News. This image is extremely hard to find, as the American Architect and Building News not only had a very small circulation during that time, but very few were actually preserved or colored as this has been. Image measures 7” by 11 ½” and had been professionally matted. Overall mat size 11 ½” x 15 ½”. The Spectacle Reef Lighthouse cost $406,000, one of the most expensive lights built on the Great Lakes, and is considered by many to be the best specimen of monolithic stone masonry in the United States. The work on the lighthouse, which stands on a submerged limestone reef off the eastern end of the Straits of Mackinaw, was commenced in May 1870. Today the structure still exists, exhibiting alternating red and white flashes. Finely detailed and beautifully hand-colored, shrink wrapped. Plan is in fine condition, clean and crisp, perfect for framing. (F). $144.
24198b. Krotee, Walter and Richard. SHIPWRECKS
OFF THE NEW
28447. na. Blind Man’s Buff. Popular Mechanics. c.1939. 7p. Unusually good article, chock full of photographs, details the work and stations of the Lighthouse Service in aiding mariners traveling the dangerous routes from New York to Nantucket Shoals in the incessant fog. Good detail of the systems in place including submarine signaling, radio direction finding and more. Filled with over 14 illustrations. Disbound. (VG). $28.
28334. na. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Samuel Sullivan Cox Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Washington. 1890. 264p. Superb gilt embossed and decorated black covers. Given the title “Father of the Life-Saving Service”, Mr. Cox spent his thirty year career in the United States Congress attempting to upgrade the Life-Saving Service. Mr. Cox was most proud of his work in creating the Federal statute that created the Life-Saving Service and his untiring zeal in pressing for its eventual passage. Throughout his career he continued to press for the upgrading of this humanitarian service such that, upon his death his widow was presented by members of the Life-Saving Service with a memorial vase inscribed to his memory. This rare volume includes the text of the many eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Representative Samuel Sullivan Cox. Includes a superb engraved portrait of Mr. Cox by the Bureau of Engraving. From a private collection, this beautiful work is in very nice condition. Beautiful embossed wraps are clean and bright, only some wear and bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight with expected age toning. A beautiful and important work. (VG+). $166 net. 6106g.
Cox, William Van Zandt, and Northrup, Milton Harlow, LIFE
OF SAMUEL SULLIVAN COX. Set of both of these important works $298.
354b.
28398a.
[bid booklet] 28398b.
[bid booklet] 28420. (documents) U.S. Lighthouse Service, 11th District. Radiophone Tests and Equipment. February 20, 1929. 4 pieces. Lot includes typed letter on Lighthouse Service stationery acknowledging assistance in evaluating signal strength and quality during recent radiophone tests conducted by Lighthouse Service radio station WWR. Document is signed by the Superintendent of Lighthouses, 11th District. Included is a second sheet describing the 50 watt crystal controlled transmitter, along with another printed photo of the equipment, which was constructed by Lighthouse Service personnel at the 11th District shops. Included also is the original mailing envelope with printed Lighthouse Service return address. Nice Lighthouse Service lot, good information. Clean, some wear. (VG). $65. 28398e.
[proposal] Engineer Office, U.S. Army [ 28398f. [proposal] U.S. Engineer Office. ADVERTISEMENT, SPECIFICATIONS AND PROPOSAL FOR CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FOR FORT WOOL, VA. January 27, 1902. 12p. (6 sheets). 8 ½” x 12”. Without wraps, unbound. Contains complete Advertisement, Guarantee, Proposal form, Specifications for furnishing various construction items to Fort Wool including Portland Cement, stone, sand, yellow pine lumber and ties, various steel and iron items, and more. Good for research, interesting reading. Only light soiling, intact save a bit brittle, some edge chipping. (VG-). $24.
28397. (cover) Official White House envelope addressed to the Bureau of Lighthouses c.1939. Interesting early original printed official envelope from The White House, addressed to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Lighthouses. This original envelope was mailed at Washington, D.C. on January 4, 1939 and may once have contained information on the impending change-over to the Coast Guard. A great memento for framing. 3 ½” x 6 ½”. (VG). $34.
21458c,d. Johnson, William Wallace. THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. New England Magazine. April 1890. (disbound) pp. 134-145. Quite a nice article detailing the history and work of the Life-Saving Service. Beginning in the 1700’s with the Massachusetts Humane Society, the author discusses the early years and into the 1880’s. Includes nine fine early engravings and photo images including a fine image of Superintendent Sumner I. Kimball, day signals, beach patrolman, beach apparatus cart, Peaked Hill Bar station on Cape Cod , and more - quite a good article. $28.
26324a. (Keeper appointment package) U. S. Lighthouse Service Keeper Appointment Letters and forms. Whitefish Point Light Station, Michigan c.1911. Lot contains four pieces relating to the appointment of George Frederick of Shelby, Michigan to the position of Second Assistant Keeper of Whitefish Point Light Station, Michigan. The appointment letter is from the Inspector, 11th Lighthouse District and signed by the inspector appointing Mr. Frederick to the position. The second piece is signed by the Acting Chief Clerk, Washington and is the official probationary appointment, which would become permanent after six months on the job. Also included are official Circular No. 215 relating to political activity of officeholders. These three items are contained in the official franked envelope of the Light-House Establishment, 11th District and addressed to Mr. Frederick. Pieces are clean and crisp, with original folds, except envelope which has some early staining and light expected soiling. Extremely rare keeper’s appointment, suitable for framing or display. (VG). $245.
28380. (lithographed post card) U.S. Life Saving Station and Crew, North Truro, Mass. c.1909. Superb b/w lithographed view shows the crew pulling the surfboat through the dunes with the aid of a team of mules. A second illustration of the Highland Life Saving Station is inset. Excellent view published by Isaac M. Small of North Truro. Mr. Small was the ships reporting agent stationed at Highland Light Station. Great view, perfect for framing. Clear and crisp, unused. (F-). $48.
28398c.
[bid booklet] North Scituate Life Saving Station c.1890-1910
The finest original views that we have ever had. Original cabinet views, each a full 10” x 12” and with gilded edges show superb detail in an unprecedented format. Station is the North Scituate Bibb #2-Type station, built in 1887 and located near Minot, Mass. Clearly the largest and finest views that we have yet seen.
25362.
Interior view $685 net. 25363.
Exterior view with crew posing on the boat ramp. $375 net.
28391.
28383. Anderson, Maizie Freeman. Keeper of the Light. (Down East Magazine 1960’s ?) 3p. Wonderful article by Maizie Freeman Anderson who grew up at Petit Manan Light Station, where her father James H. Freeman was keeper in the 1930s. She wrote about her childhood there in this excellent article. She writes that: “No trees grew in the shallow soil of Petit Manan, but there were patches of grass and a few hardy wildflowers grew in abundance, even among the rocks -- sweet pea, buttercups and others. We had a small cranberry bog yielding berries to can each year. We tried putting in a vegetable garden, using seaweed for fertilizer, but we gave it up as hopeless. We also tried keeping a cow, because fresh milk was a rarity. I shall never forget getting her there; you've never lived until you've shared a rowboat with a cow!.... When playing we usually kept to the top part of the shore. ... None of us could swim. There was really no place to learn in the frigid Atlantic. ... Once I found a complete set of false teeth, which I treasured highly and kept on my dresser to admire. They disappeared one day, probably because my mother hadn't shared my enthusiasm.” Anderson remembered one particularly high tide when the entire island was under a foot of water. The chicken coops were floating in the cranberry bog. The family moved everything of value to the second floor of the house. When Maizie Freeman Anderson was six years old she was taken by her father to Jonesboro for her first day of school. After an hour of school, Maizie was so homesick that she put her head on her desk and sobbed. She was let out early and was picked up by her father in the afternoon. She was grateful to return to her island home. "Up ahead was my island, and I watched the tower for the light. Soon it came, sending its beam out over the ocean as if to say, 'Welcome home.'" Anderson remembered small, rocky Petit Manan as "a paradise." Well worth reading. Includes one large early photo of the light station. Disbound. (VG+). $36. VINTAGE LIFE-SAVING STATION POSTCARD COLLECTIONS. We just purchased this wonderful collection of over 200 early color and b/w lithographed postcards of U.S. Life-Saving Service and early Coast Guard Stations, surfboats, beach apparatus drills and operations. Covering the period between 1900 and 1930, this early collection provides a great basis to begin your collection of these rare Life-Saving views, or to add to your existing collection. Many cards are unused and in very good or better condition, some fine. The remaining are postmarked from 1905 to 1930, some expected wear condition G-VG+. Normally retailing for up to $10-14 each, these cards are an economical [only $3.50 each] way to begin your collection. All different, no duplicates. Includes clear mounting pages. Views include life-saving stations, b/w and color, all over the country. Lots available on approval. Please inquire.
28376. (postcards) North Scituate, Mass. c1908. Rare early undivided back views by F.N. Damon Curio Co. include the U.S. Life-Saving Station, Well Rock on Minot Beach, and The Mitchell Hotel. Mint, never used, in superb condition. Rare early set. (F-). $24. 4681f. Munroe, Kirk. FROM LIGHT TO LIGHT - The Cruise of the Armeria, (lighthouse) Supply Ship. From Scribners Magazine, October 1896. 16pp. Describes the work of tenders re-supplying light stations with their needed provisions. Nicely illustrated. Describes a duty rarely touched on in most narrations. Disbound, clean, crisp. $18. 3164t.
Kobbe', Gustav. "LIFE ON THE ( 6563d LIGHT-HOUSES. na. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. February 1869. 10p. Nice early article chronicles the establishment and construction of light-houses through the ages. Disbound. (VG-). $12.
4365i.
C23259. (architectural drawing copy) Lantern For Apparatus of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Orders. Office of the Light House Board. c.1880-1906. We have been very fortunate to come across a large lot of original U. S. Light House Establishment architectural drawings for the construction of various lighthouses, keeper’s dwellings, oil houses, range beacons and more This lot originated from the Lighthouse Establishment Engineering Offices and includes many one of a kind items. This copy drawing includes large plan and sectional views of the entire lantern including ventilator ball and lightning rod. Also includes 15 views of various details including ball ventilator, crown casting, sill and soffit, sill corner, curtain hooks, lower ventilator and more. Excellent for research, restoration efforts or to frame for display. B/w 16” w x 24” h. $22. C28194. (architectural drawing copies) Lantern For Apparatus of the 2nd Order. Office of the Light House Board. c.1903. We have been very fortunate to come across a large lot of original U. S. Light House Establishment architectural drawings for the construction of various lighthouses, keeper’s dwellings, oil houses, range beacons and more This lot originated from the Lighthouse Establishment Engineering Offices and includes many one of a kind items. This set of three copy drawings from the lot includes large plan and sectional views of the entire 2nd order lantern including ventilator ball and lightning rod. Also includes 15 views of various details including ball ventilator, crown casting, sill and soffet, sill corner, curtain hooks, lower ventilator, roof plates, ladder, sill, glass panels and more. Includes sheets Nos. 1, 2, and 8. Excellent for research of for restoration efforts. B/w copy. 18” x 22”h. 3 sheets. $44. 28337. (patent No. 26,475) Rey, Jean Alexandre and Chance Brothers and Company. Improvements in the Lanterns of Lighthouses and the Like. One page printed specification page for Patent No. 26, 475, granted on 26 May, 1910 to Engineer Jean Alexandre Rey and Chance Brothers and Company. Patent includes improvements made in the construction of metallic mirrors manufactured of rare earth and gilded, allowing them to be used in lighthouse lanterns with revolving lights. Includes a bit of information on construction and properties of such mirrors and its improved ability to allow light to be seen in fog and overcast. One edge tear, otherwise clean and crisp. (VG). $48. 28346. Boddington, Jack. A CONQUERED SEA - An Illustrated Record of the United States Presidential Lifesaving Medal and Related Awards. Self published. 1990. 90p. Soft wraps. Scarce reference lists Presidential Lifesaving Medals and associated awards from 1853 up to 1939, as well as registers of recipients where available, images of the medals, and more. Very good reference work on the subject with good detail and information. Recipients’ listing includes date, the award, the name of the recipient, their rank, nationality, their ship and what US ship they saved as well as information on the award itself. Clean, tight, very nice copy of a rare publication. (VG+). $64.
8396d. Rich, Shebnah. TRURO-CAPE
COD OR LAND MARKS AND SEA MARKS.
28338. (newspaper) B.H.A. Collins Appointed Keeper, Nauset Light House, Eastham, Cape Cod. New York Daily Tribune. August 11, 1843. Short 1” column notes that “Mr. B.H.A. Collins, of Eastham, Mass. who was elected to the last Legislature out of charity for his lameness and poverty by the Whigs of his town, and sold out his party to the Loco Pocos, giving them the control of the State Government, has just been appointed by John Tyler Keeper of Light House on Cape Cod; This appointment reflects equal credit on Collins and Tyler.” Keeper B. H. A. Collins served at Nauset (Three Sisters) Lighthouse from 1843-1849, when the political party in office changed, and again from 1853-1861. Interesting note on the politics of the time and important Cape Cod lighthouse item. Full newspaper contains 4 large pages with interesting early articles of the day, only light occasional foxing, expected wear. (VG). $36. (photo image not included)
27107b. (broadside)
28316. Robinson, William F. CAPE COD - Henry David Thoreau's Complete Text, with the Journey Recreated in Pictures. New York Graphic Society. 1985. 230p. DJ. 10¼" x 9¾" Hardcover edition. Beautifully illustrated with black and white photos, reproductions of historic prints, etc. In 1865, three years after the death of Henry David Thoreau, his sister published a series of his essays and other material under the title "Cape Cod." In the Cape Cod essays, Thoreau chronicled his visits to the Cape, which consisted of long, rambling walks along the shore and seaside villages in 1849, 1850, 1855 and 1857. "The Cape Cod of Thoreau's day was as compelling a place as it is to us today," writes author William F. Robinson, "It stood apart from the mid-nineteenth century New England of ever-growing industrial cities -- as an exotic landscape of barren vistas, inhabited by Puritans and Pilgrims little changed from colonial days." The book was well-received and over the years affection for it continued to grow. “Thoreau's accounts are so vivid that the armchair traveler comes away from Cape Cod with a heightened understanding and a desire to view all that Thoreau describes. The reader wants to see the visual backdrop to this absorbing commentary." It was that last sentiment which drove Robinson to publish Cape Cod - Henry David Thoreau's Complete Text. Herin the author recreated Thoreau’s journey pictures. Using modern and historical photographs, old prints, paintings and rare maps, Robinson depicts the Cape as Thoreau saw it -- the Cape's strange landscape, its fascinating inhabitants, and the many wonders of its shore, plant life, animal life and atmosphere. As the dustjacket states, "This special marriage of text and image not only depicts the historical place as Thoreau described it but also captures the essential spirit of Cape Cod. A beautiful work, wonderful reading. (VG). $36.
9473b. Submarine Signal Company. SUBMARINE SIGNALS. Submarine Signal Company, London. December 1912. (Revised August 1916). 116p. Beautifully Illustrated with over 70 photographs, maps and illustrations. Describes in great detail the apparatus used to transmit receive signals through the water, with considerable detail and illustrations of the various pieces of equipment used and many of the vessels employing this system. This system was in use extensively on lightships to communicate their position in thick weather. Submerged bells were suspended from lightships and offshore lighthouses as a means of signaling passing vessels. Vessels so equipped had a through-hull receiver and could determine the direction from which the signal was coming. Includes a lengthy listing of vessels in the world using the system regularly including lightships, lighthouse tenders, military vessels and more, with a photograph of many. Also includes a lift of submarine signal stations with charts showing the locations of each. An important booklet. Clean, tight, light wear and bumping to wraps. (VG+). $178. 6173d. Perry, E. G., A
TRIP AROUND 5200J-b. Life-Saving Service. Report Of The General Superintendent On The Transfer Of The Life-Saving Service To The Navy Department. 1883. 5p. Original soft wraps. Quite a lengthy reply and discussion by Superintendent Kimball of the recent bill proposed to reorganize the Navy Department and transferring to it the duties and functions of the Life-Saving Service. Includes a detailed discussion of the origins and functions of the Life-Saving Service and in particular their duties, contrasting them with the markedly different duties and skills of the Navy Department. Rare rebuttal by the Superintendent himself, quite interesting reading. Wraps and contents tight, intact, light soiling, some expected edge wear. (VG). $120. RA-393. Light-House Board, INSTRUCTIONS TO LIGHT-KEEPERS AND MASTERS OF LIGHT-HOUSE VESSELS. GPO. 1902. 55 pages of instructions plus 37 photo and large fold-out plates. Contains a wealth of information, particularly in the plates for use in identifying lamps. Includes complete Instructions for Light-Keepers in Stations with Two or More Keepers, Light Stations With One Keeper, Keepers of Light-Vessels, Management of Lens Lights and Disposition of Lamps and Illuminating Apparatus, Management of Mechanical Lamps, Revolving Machinery, trimming of wicks, morning duties, and much more. Includes all aspects of station and apparatus maintenance. Excellent plates detail all types of lamps and lighting apparatus, lanterns, revolving apparatus, fog signal equipment, bell striking apparatus, and more. Also laid in is a pamphlet “Illustrated List of Parts of the Hornsby-Akroyd Patent Safety Oil Engine”. This engine was used for pumping air to supply fog signals. A very complete and important document. Contents generally clean and tight. Some soiling and foxing to endpapers, covers gilt embossed, moderate wear and soiling, hinges intact. (VG). $395 net. RA-392.
28291. (newspaper) "THE COSTON LIGHT". The United States Gazette. November 6, 1845. Front page top right full column lengthy piece on the improvements on the invention of a Parabolic Reflector by Benjamin Franklin Coston, a young Navy officer. Article includes more detail and scientific specifics on this invention and its impact on Lighthouses at Reedy Island, Christiana Creek Light. Noted is Mr. Middleton who constructed the apparatus for Coston. 23 column inches. Full newspaper contains 4 large pages with interesting early articles of the day, only light occasional foxing, expected wear. (VG). $34.
688h. Carmen, Ruth. STORM
CHILD.
28254. (advertisement) Jos. W. Jones Radio Receivers. Saturday Evening Post. October 3, 1925. Vintage advertisement shows writer talking with the old lighthouse keeper and notes: “It used to be lonesome here – it ain’t any more. So said this lighthouse keeper, for 38 years a hermit until Radio brought the outside world to him.” Three models or radio receivers manufactured by the Jos. W. Jones Radio Mfg. Co. of New York. Models include: Model J-75 B 5-tube, tuned radio frequency receiver, selling for $75, the Model J-100 B, also 5 tube, tuned radio frequency receiver and selling for $100. The top of the line was the Model J-175, a 6 tube, tuned radio frequency receiver selling for $175. The add measures approximately 10 ¼” x 14” and is clean and bright, perfect for framing. (VG+). $24. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE
We
have just acquired two large collections of these rare Annual Reports of
the Life-Saving Service and, in an effort to stem the rise of prices over
the last few years on these reports, have endeavored to offer them at as
low a price as possible. This is the perfect opportunity to begin your
collection or to fill those missing years in your present collection.
Reports are printed by the Government Printing Office [GPO] and range from
180 to 600 pages. Includes extensive details of operations and of rescues
throughout the year. Also details personnel, construction and repairs of
stations and equipment, evaluation of new equipment and much more. In
addition, many include appended reports such as the new Beebe-McLellan
Life-Boat, Dobbins’s surf life-boat, launching wagon, improved breeches
buoy traveler block, McLellan’s Tally-Boards, and lengthy report on
tests performed on Hunt and Lyle guns on Nantucket Island in 1887, reports
on Cunningham rockets, surfboats and more. Quite detailed, becoming
exceptionally difficult to find. Typical cloth government binding,
contents overall clean, expected uniform very light browning on some
copies, hinges tight and intact, covers may have some wear. $164 net
each. Years available include: 1883, 1884, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1914, (CG) 1915, 1916, 1920.
5461n. Lombard, Asa Cobb Paine. EAST OF CAPE COD . Cuttyhunk. 1976. 157 pp. Presentation copy – inscribed and numbered #70 by the author with laid in greetings page. The author tells the stories of ships and shipwrecks and particularly of the Life-Savers of this dangerous area. The author incorporated into this account numerous photographs and records of his grandfather, United States Life-Saving Service Warrant Officer [1885-1921] Edward Everett Lombard who was stationed at the Cahoon’s Hollow station. Extremely well illustrated with over 80 wonderful early photographs, one of the better accounts of the Life-Saving Service. The glass slides from which the pictures are reproduced were made from 1885 to 1900. Lombard, along with his Cahoon’s Hollow companion, Eugene Young, gave lectures at the time in the eastern part of Massachusetts describing the wrecks that occurred on Cape Cod from Monomoy to Provincetown , explaining how rescue attempts were made, and the operations of the United States Life Saving Service. The proceeds from the lectures were used to buy Station personnel the necessary extras needed to perform their duties — equipment not provided by the government. Chapters include the Wreck of the Jason, History of the Life-Saving Service, the Lifesaver’s Tools, Lifeboat Drill, Communications, Smuggler, Restoring the Apparently Drowned, Shipwrecks, the Way of the Wreckers, and more. Becoming scarce, this has always been one of the two best on Cape Cod ’s life-savers but so far has not received proper recognition. Clean, tight, light sunning to wraps. (VG+). $48 net.
28191. (advertisement) Life-Saving Service Benevolent Association Was Founded by Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company’s First President in 1849. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company. June 1938. Large full page advertisement features a large image of surfmen landing in their surfboat and includes an account of the Life Saving Benevolent Association’s founding and work in procuring lifeboats and shore stations before the founding of the Life Saving Service. 8 ½” x 12”. A nice piece for framing. (VG+). $28. 21506.
20146.
Life-Saving Service. REVISED REGULATIONS FOR THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE LAWS UPON
WHICH THEY ARE BASED - 1884.
7459i,j,k. Kerrigan, Evans E., THE
SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM – A Complete Illustrated Record of the
Life-Saving Medals of the 9215g. Wechter, Nell Wise. THE
MIGHTY MIDGETTS OF CHICAMACOMICO.
8462c.
Kimball, Sumner I., ORGANIZATION AND METHODS OF THE
UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.
RA-391. (lithograph print) U.S. Coast Guard 36' motor lifeboat CG36498 by Don McMichael c.1980. Great 15” x 19” print by retired Oregon Coast Guardsman and artist Don McMichael shows great detail of the CG36498 underway as hercrew rescues a seaman from the water. Before retiring from the United States Coast Guard in 1977, McMichael made his living saving lives in the most difficult and dangerous conditions that the Pacific Ocean has to offer. As Officer in Charge of search and rescue stations along the Oregon Coast, where unpredictable weather often creates some of the roughest seas in the world, he developed a great respect and admiration for the sea. U.S. Coast Guard 36' motor lifeboat CG36498 served at the Port Orford Lifeboat Station until the station ceased lifeboat services in 1964. She is a Type TRS, built at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1946.The boat was transferred to Coast Guard Station Bandon (Oregon), where she served until at least 1972. Later she was transferred to Coast Guard Station Umpqua River (Oregon). 36498 served at Umpqua River with distinction until December 1979, when she was taken out of service and transferred to Coast Guard Station Coos Bay. In Coos Bay, she was "parted out" to keep CG 36535 at Depoe Bay, Oregon, in service. In 1981, after serving the United States Coast Guard for over 35 years, 36498 was pulled out of the water for the last time. She remained at the Coos Bay station until 1989 when she was put on display in Bandon. She came home to Port Orford Lifeboat Station in early 2000, where restoration began in 2004 and was completed in 2007. Print is in poor period frame and can be shipped with or without frame. Reframed it would be great for your wall - a large striking image. (VG). $44. 28177. (newspaper) Blunt, Messrs E & G.W., IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIGHTHOUSES" - "REJOINDER OF E & G. W. BLUNT TO THE REPYL OF PLEASONTON TO THEIR COMMUNICATION TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ON THE SUBJECT OF LIGHTHOUSES. New York American. May 25, 1838. 4p. In November of 1837 Messrs Blunt argued that the U. S. Light-Houses were greatly inferior to those of Great Britain and France, that the system of superintending them and their management was bad and that the Light-House Establishment was kept up at greater cost than necessary. This article by the Blunts is in rebuttal to Mr. Pleasontons' reply to the 1837 article. In this detailed article, by the respected publishers of Coast Pilots of the day present considerable information relative to the efficiency and operation of individual lights throughout the country. Includes testimony, examples as well as table of limits of visibility, distance from land objects, etc. of existing U.S. lights and much more. Unusual early details. A full 65 column inches long. Full newspaper contains 4 pages with interesting early articles of the day, only light occasional foxing, expected wear. (VG). $88. 28173. (magazine) An Amateur in the Lighthouse Service. QST Magazine. May 1924. American Radio Relay League (amateur radio operators) Full issue 112 pages. Account of amateur radio station NASK that was installed by the operator at the remote Stannard Rock Lighthouse in Lake Superior and a similar station at the Marquette Lighthouse in an effort to provide communications . Account speaks in some detail on the equipment used and some contacts achieved. 2p. Full issue, includes numerous articles and advertisements of the day related to the field of amateur radio. Complete issue, covers nicely intact, light wear. (VG). $28. Sought After by Collectors and Modelers...
957. [lightship model]
28246. SIGNAL BOOK. United States Army. Wash. 1916. 64p. Cloth wraps. 24 Mo. Filled with information on visual signaling including Morse Code, Signaling by Coston lights, flag, torch, lantern, heliograph, Ardois system, semaphore, letter codes, telephone and more. Includes color plates of signals and flags. Clean, crisp. (VG+). $48.
28198. Groot, E. P., The United States Life-Saving Service in Ocean County. Excerpts From Annual Reports of the United States Life Saving Service for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 1876-1914. Ocean County Historical Society. 2005. 368p. Stiff wraps. This is a carefully prepared and attractively presented narrative of the Life-Saving Service in Ocean County from 1876 to 1914. After witnessing a shipwreck on the coast of Long Beach Island and the loss of all thirteen lives in 1839, W. A. Newell was prompted as a Congressman in 1848 to appeal for funds to establish a federal life-saving system. This book tells the story of that system, its function, and activities at Ocean County’s eight life saving stations. Included are numerous accounts of wrecks and rescue efforts taken from original reposts and other sources, as well as extensive statistical information on maritime accidents and developments in life-saving technique. The book contains extensive notes on the U.S. Life Saving Service, locations and manning of stations, activities and narratives of life saving crews, tabular summaries of maritime accidents, an index of vessel names, and various maps and pictures. Excellent reference and reading. Rare. (M). $88. 4742. na. Loss of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626. Boston. 1865. 38 of original 42p. In 1626, this small Sparrow-Hawk, of about 36 tons and 40 feet in length, brought 25 passengers and their possessions from Europe to America. Bound for Virginia, they landed in distress on Cape Cod after the hardships of a stormy voyage of 6 weeks. Today the Sparrow-Hawk is the only surviving remains of a 17th century trans-Atlantic vessel. The original preserved timbers exemplify the small, sturdy ships vital to the colonization of America. Their size is evidence of the courage of those who undertook the journey to the New World. This early account and description of the loss presents great detail of the incident and sufferings of her crew. Original soft wraps, light wear and foxing, original signature bound. (G+). $34.
28135. Roy, E. Lott. Eaton’s Neck Lifesavers. Long Island Forum Magazine. October 1963. 2p. Nice overview on the early life saving efforts on Long Island’s north shore near Eaton’s Neck. Includes good photos of the first 1849 station as well as the 1875-Type life-saving station. Good information on the acquiring of the sites and early crews. Full issue, light wear and a bit of moisture to back. (VG-). $28.
28231. McFadden, Parmalee. HOW WE BOYS WERE STORMBOUND ON MINOT’S LIGHTHOUSE. St. Nicholas Magazine. August 1903. 4p. Disbound. Great article describes a visit by the author and the keeper’s son to this storm-lashed offshore lighthouse. Once arriving and braving the bronze ladder to the door halfway up the side. Once safely inside, a fierce August storm arose. As the waves lashed the sides of the tower and the storm increased, it became clear that they would have to spend a few days until the storm abated. Great account of life in this lonely outpost. Nicely illustrated. (VG). $28. 28230. Abbatt, William. THE LONELY LIGHTHOUSE. St. Nicholas Magazine. June 1892. 3p. Disbound. Great account of a visit by the author in 1891 to a remote light station on Long Island Sound. In his account he relates the keeper’s description of his work, of lighting the lamp and tending to the duties of the station. Great account. Nicely illustrated. (VG). $20.
28229. Kobbe, Gustav. LIFE-SAVERS, OLD AND YOUNG. St. Nicholas Magazine. April 1901. 5p. Disbound. Great account of the work of the Life-Saving Service includes a number of accounts of their work and life, as well as a number of rescues performed. Includes a number of photo illustrations of the surfboat roll-over drill, breeches buoy drill and more. Great account. Nicely illustrated. (VG). $24. 4365L. United States Life-Saving Service. INSTRUCTIONS TO MARINERS IN CASE OF SHIPWRECK WITH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LIFE-SAVING STATIONS UPON THE COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington. GPO. 1888. 43p. Contains information and instructions for use by mariners so that proper co-ordination between life-savers and sailors in distress will be achieved. Includes information on the use of breeches buoy apparatus, signaling, rescue by surfboat, and much more. Also includes complete listing of all Life-Saving Districts and stations in the united States. Disbound, without three-part folded case. 3” x 6” illustrated. Unusually clean, intact in good condition. (VG) . $128 net.
28183. Tag, Thomas A. The Clock Without Hands. Chicago. 2008. 17p. Spiral bound. Thomas Tag has long been probably the only authority on lamps, lens apparatus and illumination for lighthouses, with his articles on the subject appearing in our catalogue, as well as the U. S. Lighthouse Society’s Keeper’s Log, Lighthouse Digest and other publications. Now Tom has added still another volume to his list of publications – The Clock Without Habds. This detailed account covers a long neglected area of lighthouse equipment – the mechanical weight-driven mechanisms that rotate the lenses causing the flash that we see. The author covers a history and design of these mechanisms, chariot wheel systems, mercury flotation systems, clockwork mechanisms, and much more. Thoroughly illustrated with early photographs and drawings, this booklet makes most interesting reading. (M). $26. (Additional titles available – please ask for list.) Early U. S. Coast Guard Publications
25191a. Price, Scott T., THE COAST GUARD AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC CAMPAIGN. Wash. U. S. Coast Guard. 1994. 17p. Soft wraps. Nearly 23,000 Coast Guard members manned two classes of Navy escort vessels that saw service on the North Atlantic; destroyer escorts and frigates. The destroyer escorts began to join the fleet in mid-1943, and the Coast Guard ultimately manned 30 of these well-armed and maneuverable warships. The Coast Guard also manned the entire class of 75 frigates which began to enter service in late 1943. The experienced sailors slept "boots and saddles." This meant, as one crewman said, that "I sleep with my shoes and clothes on, and, OK, my life jacket also," because they were never sure when a torpedo might hit their ship. Combatting the U-boats took a great deal of training and experience. These warships, along with their compatriots, kept the U-boats at bay and the supply lines to the Allies open, thereby leading to Germany's ultimate defeat. An interesting and valuable reference. $18. 25190a.
Browning, Robert M. Jr., THE COAST GUARD AND THE
PACIFIC WAR. Wash. U. S. Coast Guard. 1995. 21p. Soft wraps. The
Coast Guard's participation in amphibious activity during World War II was
perhaps the most important war-related job the service performed. Incredibly,
the Coast Guard fully manned more than 350 naval ships, including 77 LSTs
(Landing Ship, Tank), 21 cargo and attack-cargo ships, 75 frigates, and 31
transports. In addition, the Coast Guard manned more than 800 cutters, nearly
300 ships for the Army, and thousands of amphibious-type assault craft. An
interesting and valuable reference.
$18. 25189a,b.
Browning, Robert M. Jr., THE EYES AND EARS OF THE
CONVOY: Development of the Helicopter as an Anti-Submarine Weapon.
Wash. U. S. Coast Guard. 1993. 17p. Soft wraps. The development of the
helicopter can be attributed to a few visionary men who foresaw the great
potential of this aircraft. During World War II, due to the insistence of
several Coast Guard officers, this revolutionary aircraft was developed for war
and peacetime uses. Their efforts helped the helicopter to evolve into the
machine that is known today. The story of the helicopter, of course, just began
for the Coast Guard during World War II. The helicopter would quickly become the
backbone of the service's search-and-rescue program. This little known account
is well worth reading. Includes many early photos. $22. 8271b.
Noble, Dennis. THE BEACH PATROL AND CORSAIR FLEET.
USCG. 25188b.
Price, Scott T. THE U.S. COAST GUARD AT NORMANDY.
USCG. 22136b.
Tilley, John A., THE COAST GUARD & THE 28165. Browning, Robert M. Jr., CAPTAINS OF THE PORT. Wash. U. S. Coast Guard. 1993. 17p. Soft wraps. Following the Mont Blanc disaster in Halifax, the Coast Guard instituted procedures to provide logistical support, supervision, security, law enforcement and safety measures in all major American ports. This booklet provides great detail on this little known function of the Coast Guard. Clean, tight. (VG). $16. 28166. Thomson, PA2 Robin J. THE COAST GUARD & THE WOMEN’S RESERVE IN WORLD WAR II. Wash. U. S. Coast Guard. 1992. 21p. Soft wraps. The story of the more than 10,000 women who joined the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve from 1942 until the war’s end. Filled with interesting accounts. Clean, tight. (VG). $22.
United States Lighthouse Service Bulletins 1912-1935
27172. (copy) Bureau
of Lighthouses. Lighthouse Service Bulletins.
27182b. (Architect’s view) Fourth Order Light House, Mobile Middle Bay, Alabama. c.1888. American Architect and Building News. April 14, 1888. A beautifully detailed, hand colored, original plan image from the American Architect and Building News. This image is extremely hard to find, as the American Architect and Building News not only had a very small circulation during that time, but very few were actually preserved or colored as this has been. It measures 5 ½” by 7 ½” and had been professionally matted. Overall mat size 11 ¾” by 9 ½”. Due to high labor costs in the post-Civil-War South, the lighthouse was prefabricated in the North and then shipped to Mobile Point, where it arrived in 1885. The screwpile lighthouse consisted of a wooden hexagonal dwelling with a roof that slopped upwards to the centrally located lantern room. The lighthouse was supported by seven legs extending from each corner of the superstructure. After the piles had been screwed into the bottom of the bay, the structure suddenly settled seven and a half feet on September 12, 1885. Wooden piles were hurriedly driven around the screwpiles and succeeded in stabilizing the lighthouse. On December 1, 1885, the light from a fourth-order Fresnel lens first cast its beam from atop the lighthouse. Today the structure still exists, topped by a red navigational beacon. Finely detailed and beautifully hand-colored, shrink wrapped. Plan is in fine condition, clean and crisp, perfect for framing. (F). $122.
6333y, z. Putnam, George R. SENTINEL OF THE COASTS - THE LOG OF A LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEER. NY. 1937. 1st. ed. 368pp. Well illustrated with over 60 photos. This historical and descriptive work by the retired Commissioner of Lighthouses includes chapters on the history and organization of the Lighthouse Service, the perils of lightships, fog and radio, tenders, romance of the buoys, the government workers, and much more. A most important book that has become quite scarce. Unusually good condition for this title, clean, bright, tight, only soiling and fading to the spine. (VG). $88 net.
6366u.
Putnam, George R. LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS OF THE
UNITED STATES. 5285f.
Weiss, George. THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE - ITS HISTORY,
ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATION; Service Monographs of the 9198c. 21346d. Grubb, Russell.
27477. Putnam, George R.
(Commissioner of Lighthouses) RADIO FOG SIGNALS
AND THEIR USE IN NAVIGATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE RADIOCOMPASS.
United States Lighthouse Service. GPO. 2nd. 1924. 28p. Soft wraps.
Detailed work describes completely the theory and operation of the new
systems of radio-beacons installed on the coasts for guidance of marine
traffic. Includes locations, theory, principles of operation, equipment,
systems, history and station locations. Illustrated with maps and some
wonderful photographs. Clean, tight. Rare title by the Commissioner of
Lighthouses. (VG+). $245.
2897a. Small, Isaac M., TRUE
STORIES OF CAPE COD. Buzzards Bay. 1934. 95pp. Soft wraps.
Isaac Small was for sixty years the marine reporting agent stationed at Highland
Light, whose duty it was to report incoming shipping. His experience and
knowledge of this area of 7119k.
Small, Isaac M., SHIPWRECKS ON 5416c,e.
Small, Isaac M., JUST A LITTLE ABOUT THE
2894. (advertising window card) Small,
Isaac M., CAPE COD STORIES c.1930’s. Isaac
Small was for sixty years the marine reporting agent stationed at Highland
Light, whose duty it was to report incoming shipping. His experience and
knowledge of this area of
5174g.
7441e. Foley, George F. Jr., SINBAD
OF THE COAST GUARD. 28109.
Leighton, Clare, WHERE LAND MEETS SEA – The Enduring
Cape Cod. Riverside. 2nd. 1973. Soft wraps. 202p. Illustrated with
many wood engravings by Clare Leighton. A classic volume summons up the delights
of this unique stretch of New England coastline, revealing the feel and spirit
of this historic area. Included are chapters on the hurricanes and storms,
lighthouses, shipwrecks, the outer beach and more. Fine reading. (tight, light
soiling. (VG). $12. 28110.
Kittredge, Henry C., CAPE COD – Its People and Their
History. Boston. 1968. 344p. DJ. First published in 1930, this book
is a detailed history of the peninsula. From the naming and settlement of every
Cape town, the author moves chronologically through time, with a few backtracks
to cover special topics like religion, wars, the canal, whaling and fisheries.
Of utmost importance, of course, is the continuing relationship of the residents
to the sea. Some of the most fascinating (and brutal and tragic) stories can be
found in the "Storms, Wrecks, and Wreckers" chapter. Truly sobering is
the reproduction of a map showing the location of every known shipwreck off Cape
Cod just from 1880 to 1903, when 540 wrecks were reported. On the lighter side
is the chapter regarding the construction of the Canal. Cutting a waterway
through the Buzzard's Bay area had been an occasional topic of conversation and
speculation since 1676. Thoroughly enjoyable, fiklled with information. Clean,
tight, in worn and chipped dj. (VG). $16.
5266k.
Cusack, Zugbee. COLLECTOR'S LUCK - A THOUSAND YEARS AT 5266m.
Cusack, Zugbee. COLLECTOR'S LUCK - A THOUSAND YEARS AT
27436. (document)
5426e. Beston, Henry. THE
OUTERMOST HOUSE – A Year of Life on the
7159m.
(magazine) THE MENTOR. July 1925. Pub. 20146c. Life-Saving Service. REVISED
REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE LAWS UPON WHICH THEY ARE BASED - 1884.
22355f. U. S.
Life-Saving Service prints by Fred S. Cozzens, 1890 as reproduced by
the Illustrated American Supplement, 1890. The original paintings were done in
1887 by renowned marine artist Fred S. Cozzens (1856-1928) who studied at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
2845. (Architect’s view) A Life-Saving Station for the Coast of New England by Albert B. Bibb, Architect c.1886. American Architect and Building News. January 23, 1886. A beautifully detailed, hand colored, original plan image from the American Architect and Building News shows Albert Bibb’s design for a life-saving station for the New England coast. Later known as the Bibb #2 Type. This image is extremely hard to find, as the American Architect and Building News not only had a very small circulation during that time, but very few were actually preserved or colored as this has been. Plan measures 8 ¾” x 6 ¼” inches and has been professionally matted. Overall mat size 9 by 11 inches. Plan includes elevation view and small plan view. Finely detailed and beautifully hand-colored, plan is shrink wrapped for protection. Plan is in near fine condition, clean and crisp, perfect for framing. (F-). $128. 27449.
(copy) Diary of Joshua Hardy, Light Keeper, 27450.
(copy) 27451.
(copy)
8325b. Douglass, J. W. [for Capt. Ottinger]. APPEAL OF CAPTAIN DOUGLASS OTTINGER AGAINST THE PASSAGE IN THE SENATE, OF HOUSE RESOLUTION, 125, 1ST SESSION, 49TH CONGRESS. January 1887. 20p. Soft wraps. Rare report on behalf of Captain Douglass Ottinger’s claim him as the sole inventor of the life or surf car and requests that Congress delay presenting an award for same to Mr. Joseph Francis. Includes detailed testimony by Captain Ottinger as to the details of his invention and its introduction into the Life-Saving Service, as well as testimony by members of the revenue Cutter Service, Representative William A. Newell, and many others. A most important original early account of the development of this important piece of equipment. Clean, crisp, little wear. (VG+). $134. Shinnecock Bay Light Station, Long Island, New York.
27285a,b,c,d,e,f,g. (Light-House Keeper’s Receipt) Shinnecock Bay Light Station, Long Island, New York. c.1910. Original Light House Keeper’s receipt for items received from the Engineer, Third Light-House District for use at the light station. Form is No. 11-1950 and is filled out and signed in the hand of Keeper Charles Redfern and dated 1910. Form measures 5 ¼” x 8” and is clean and crisp, may have one fold. (VG+). $44 each (7 available, varying dates)
27424. U. S. Light-House Establishment. Form No. 316. JOURNAL OF LIGHT STATION. Shinnecock Bay Light Station, Long Island, New York. c.1913. Journal lists date, time of watch, condition of light, condition of fog signal and signature of keeper and would be filled out by the keeper for each watch, from midnight to sunrise, and sunrise to midnight. This journal was filled out by keepers J. Orton, H. H. Lake, Thomas J. Conklin, and J. D. McMillan and dates from March 17, 1913 to December 31st, 1918. Includes many notes about difficulties with the lamp or vaporizer, repairs and changes to apparatus, changing mantles, and more. Also includes the Assistant Superintendent’s signatures after having examined the keeper’s log. September 3, 1916 notes that keeper found asleep on watch. Journal covers 159 pages and is a must for researchers working to properly furnish your lighthouse or museum exhibit. Consists of pages #39 through 198, having been disbound from the original wraps. Some wear, moderate chipping, a bit brittle from age. (G+). $124.
27427. U. S. Coast Guard. QUARTERMASTERS’ BRIDGE BOOK- U. S. Coast Guard Air Station, Brooklyn, New York. c.1947. 82 p. Official post World War II vintage logbook is filled out by the Quartermaster of the watch. It has pages sufficient for a one month period and includes space for morning orders, events of the day, course, speed, weather, sea conditions, crew on board, positions, magazine temperature, commanding officer and more. Book is as original, completely filled out for this station, in original cardboard wraps. Includes changes of watch, training, alerts, new personnel and much more. 9 ½” x 11 ½”. Moderate expected wear and toning. A great collector’s item. (VG). $68. 23380a,b.
27438. (marine supplies catalogues c.1930’s) We recently acquired a great lot of early illustrated marine supplies catalogues. Catalogues detail thousands of early ship and yacht chandlery items including rope and chain, fittings, flags, ensigns and jacks, binnacles, marine engines, blocks and pulleys, Coston distress signals, lamps and lanterns, boats and canoes, sails, life vests, tools, clocks, barometers and much more. Great reading and reference. Catalogues available include: The Durkee Company c.1936. 191p.; Armstrong & Galbraith, Inc. c.1940. 96p.; W & J Tiebout Marine Supplies c.1939. 208p.; E. J. Willis Company c.1935. 256p.; E. J. Willis Company c.1937. 264p. $34 each.
8522c.
Bibs, A. B., THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE ON THE 27128.
H. R. ex. Doc. No. 58. REPORT OF THE LIFE SAVING
SERVICE IN REFERENCE TO THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER METROPOLIS. March 1, 1878.
19p. Disbound. Peering through a thick blanket of fog on the morning of January
31, 1878, local fishermen were the first to spot the grounded vessel. Acting
quickly, they pulled half a dozen survivors from the sea and dispatched a rider
to notify the lifesavers. When the rider, a Mr. Brock, arrived at the lifesaving
station about 10 a.m., Keeper John G. Chappell and his men readied themselves
for action. Brock informed him that a vessel was fast breaking up, too fast to
get the 750-pound surfboat down the beach to be serviceable. Instead, the keeper
strapped the medicine chest to his back and headed for the wreck immediately.
His crew of six followed along dragging the beach-cart. After reaching the shore
nearest the Metropolis, Keeper Chappell set about the effective application of
restoratives to a number of survivors who had already swum ashore. His crew and
apparatus arrived about noon. The steamer lay head-in one hundred yards offshore
and, thus, presented a small target for the mortar. Nevertheless, the second
shot was true and landed across the port fore-topsail yardarm. But the man who
took the line "was no seaman," according to Surfman Piggott Gillikin,
and the line was not dropped under the stays and therefore chafed in two before
the whip-line could be drawn out to the vessel. Having run out of his own
powder, Chappell improvised with some quick-burning black powder. But two
additional shots failed when each time the shot-line parted from the ball upon
firing. Keeper Chappell then donned the Merriman life-saving dress and made two
valiant attempts to carry a line out to the vessel. When he was unable to get
past the breakers, those on board the vessel who had looked on in horror began
to jump overboard and take their chances at swimming ashore. For three hours
keeper and crew struggled to save them in the surf while battling a treacherous
undertow; all were badly bruised by the mass of bobbing timbers about them. All
worked as hard at it as possible . . . until it was all over. One hundred and
sixty lives were drawn out of the water on that dismal morning. Detailed account
includes reports by: Captain J. H. Merryman, U. S. Revenue Cutter Service; John
G. Chappell, Keeper of Station No. 4 Jones Hill; Surfman Piggott Gillikin; N. G.
Burris, Keeper Currituck Light House, and more. Excellent account. (VG). $65
27347.
(photo) SKY PILOT TO LIGHTHOUSE MEN – W. H.
“Grandpa” Law. Keystone View Company. 6” x 8”. b/w.
c.1930-1940. Press release attached notes: “After practically a lifetime on
the high seas, W. H. “Grandpa” Law, who has preached the gospel to
lighthouse keepers and Coast Guardsmen of the U. S. has retired from active
service. His going will be mourned by every lighthouse keeper in the United
States.” There is not much information really known about Mr. Law - We
are aware of a story that he wrote entitled, “Deeds of Valor by Heroes and
Heroines of the Great Water World” but know little else. Clean, clear, light
wear. (VG). $38. 20533b.
Parsons, Eleanor C., THATCHERS –
27272a,b,c,d,e,f.
U. S. Lighthouse Service. AIDS TO NAVIGATION ON THE
COASTS AND WATERWAYS OF THE UNITED STATES – Statistics. GPO. 13 –
17 ppg. Soft wraps. Complete statistics on the work of the Lighthouse Service.
Includes listing of districts, superintendents, listing of types od aids to
navigation by district, lightships in commission with details, fog signals,
tenders in commission with details, construction and appropriations, emergency
construction and more. Good early reference. Clean, tight. Four years available:
June 30, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937. (VG+). $48 each.
27299.
(a paper read before the Philosophical Society of Washington) Johnson, Arnold
Burges, Clerk, U. S. Light House Board. THE HISTORY
OF THE LIGHT HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. April 2, 1881. 7p.
Inscribed by the author. Without wraps. Account of a paper prepared by Mr.
Johnson to be read elsewhere, traces the rise and progress from the first beacon
on Point Allerton raised in 1673 to the present (1881). Includes information on
sound propagation and the work of Professor Joseph Henry, expensed and annual
budgets for lighting and a number of other points. Inscribed by Mr. Johnson
to “Hon. Lorenzo Johnson with the compliments of his bro[ther] Arnold”, with
some additional notes in his hand. Light soiling, early folds. Rare piece by
the Clerk of the U. S. Light House Board. (VG). $112.
27139. (Flying Santa) LIFE GOES ON A Trip – In an Airplane with Santa Claus Along the New England Coast. Life Magazine. December 1928. 3p. Disbound. Short article filled with photographs chronicles the Bill Wincapaws (father and son) as they set out by airplane to drop gift bundles to lighthouses and Coast Guard stations along the New England coast. In 1926, Captain William Wincapaw began the tradition of dropping Christmas gift packages from his plane to remote lighthouse families. Later, author and historian Edward Rowe Snow would continue the “Flying Santa” tradition, which continues to this day by local groups. Photos include the Wincapaws, and from the air Straitsmouth Light Station, Annisquam LS, Ipswich LS, Boston LS, and Plum Island Coast Guard station. Clean, crisp. (VG+). $34. 25306.
L-132. Sweetser, M. F. KING’S
HANDBOOK OF
4342k,n. Otis, James. THE
LIFE SAVERS. A Story of the 4342L. Otis, James. THE
LIFE SAVERS. A Story of the
24379b. [broadside] Transportation
Department, 5419aa. Treasury Department. INSTRUCTIONS
FOR UNITED STATES COAST GUARD STATIONS. 1922. 257 pp. Includes
general instructions, patrols and lookouts, equipment lists, boat drills and
operation and complete beach apparatus drill. In addition, interesting
instruction book for the use of Coast Guard Stations covers law enforcement
duties of the Officer in charge, action at wrecks, patrols and lookouts,
swimming qualifications, classification and descriptions of types of boats used
at Coast Guard, boat equipment, various drills and commands, capsizing and
righting drill, management of boats in a surf, boarding a vessel stranded or
afloat in a heavy sea, signals for use at wrecks, US Storm Signals (with color
plates showing day and night signals), ship and aircraft distress signals,
resuscitation drill, Beach apparatus drill with great illustration of "Man
the beach cart" this is followed by more illustrations showing halt and
relative positions of men while placing apparatus, Hawser Cutter, muster at a
station, piloting etc. The final section of the book is a question and answer
section which is for the purpose of assisting the officers in charge in the
instruction of the crews of US Coast Guard Stations. Besides the previously
described illustrations there are also illustrations showing positions when shot
line is bent to whip, hauling off whip, hauling off hawser, Man lee whip haul
off, Man weather whip haul ashore, Hawser cutter arranged for hauling off etc.
Blue cloth covers, size is 4 3/8” by 6” inches. Moderate wear, intact
but warped somewhat and signatures opening from years of use, pages overall
clean, covers stained. Very difficult to find. (G+). $118 net. 5419v. Treasury Department. INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNITED STATES COAST GUARD STATIONS. 1922. 257 pp. Includes general instructions, patrols and lookouts, equipment lists, boat drills and operation and complete beach apparatus drill. In addition, interesting instruction book for the use of Coast Guard Stations covers law enforcement duties of the Officer in charge, action at wrecks, patrols and lookouts, swimming qualifications, classification and descriptions of types of boats used at Coast Guard, boat equipment, various drills and commands, capsizing and righting drill, management of boats in a surf, boarding a vessel stranded or afloat in a heavy sea, signals for use at wrecks, US Storm Signals (with color plates showing day and night signals), ship and aircraft distress signals; resuscitation drill, Beach apparatus drill with great illustration of "Man the beach cart" . This is followed by more illustrations showing halt and relative positions of men while placing apparatus, Hawser Cutter, muster at a station, piloting etc. The final section of the book is a question and answer section which is for the purpose of assisting the officers in charge in the instruction of the crews of US Coast Guard Stations. Besides the previously described illustrations there are also illustrations showing positions when shot line is bent to whip, hauling off whip, hauling off hawser, Man lee whip haul off, Man weather whip haul ashore, Hawser cutter arranged for hauling off etc. Blue cloth covers, size is 4 3/8” by 6” inches. Condition is good, flat, tight, complete, some wear and rubbing to cover. Contents overall clean, becoming loose, spine and front wrap detached but can be repaired, one corner missing from title page. A great inexpensive alternative. Very difficult to find. (VG-). $58 net. 5419w. Treasury Department. INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNITED STATES COAST GUARD STATIONS. 1922. 257 pp. Includes general instructions, patrols and lookouts, equipment lists, boat drills and operation and complete beach apparatus drill. In addition, interesting instruction book for the use of Coast Guard Stations covers law enforcement duties of the Officer in charge, action at wrecks, patrols and lookouts, swimming qualifications, classification and descriptions of types of boats used at Coast Guard, boat equipment, various drills and commands, capsizing and righting drill, management of boats in a surf, boarding a vessel stranded or afloat in a heavy sea, signals for use at wrecks, US Storm Signals (with color plates showing day and night signals), ship and aircraft distress signals, resuscitation drill, Beach apparatus drill with great illustration of "Man the beach cart" this is followed by more illustrations showing halt and relative positions of men while placing apparatus, Hawser Cutter, muster at a station, piloting etc. The final section of the book is a question and answer section which is for the purpose of assisting the officers in charge in the instruction of the crews of US Coast Guard Stations. Besides the previously described illustrations there are also illustrations showing positions when shot line is bent to whip, hauling off whip, hauling off hawser, Man lee whip haul off, Man weather whip haul ashore, Hawser cutter arranged for hauling off etc. Blue cloth covers, size is 4 3/8” by 6” inches. Book has fairly heavy wear, staining to wraps, intact but signatures coming loose, color plates present but loose. Pages overall clean, crisp, unmarked. Could be rebound. Very difficult to find. (G+). $78 net. IRON LIGHT
22387b.
[original lithograph] IRON LIGHT Built
under the direction of Capt. W. H. Swift, late of This
large three color image is quite detailed, even to the many parabolic reflectors
in the lantern room, station boat, the tower’s iron cross braces and much
more. This is the first of two such images that were done of this important
structure, the second being done after the loss the following year showing the
tower falling in the storm. This lithograph was done prior to most photography
and is thus the only view ever made of the completed tower. It is truly a museum
quality piece and would grace any wall. This original print is clean and bright,
in unusually good condition. A wonderful find! (VG+). $1685 net.
27173a-k.
United States Light-House Board. BULLETIN. RECENT
CHANGES IN AIDS TO NAVIGATION – Coasts of the United States. 27186. Secretary of the
Treasury. SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL LIST OF MERCHANT
VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES WITH OFFICIAL NUMBERS AND SIGNAL LETTERS….
FOR THE FISCAL TEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1885. 412b.
H.R. Doc No. 811. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
May 25, 1842.
27198.
Kerber, Stephen H. THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING
SERVICE AND THE FLORIDA HOUSES OF REFUGE. Florida Atlantic
University. 1971. 144p. Facsimile copy, spiral bound. The Houses of Refuge in
Florida were a series of stations operated by the United States Life Saving
Service along the coast of Florida to rescue and shelter ship-wrecked sailors.
Five houses were built on the east coast in 1876, with five more added in 1885.
There was also two Life Saving Stations built, one just south of the Jupiter
Inlet, the other on the Gulf coast on Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola. The
houses were manned by civilian keepers, contractors who lived in the houses with
their families. Most of these houses remained in service as life-saving stations
until 1915 or later. Some of the locations became Coast Guard stations after the
Life Saving Service was merged into the Coast Guard in 1915. The houses were
built of Florida pine, using 8x8 heartwood timbers for the foundation and frame,
intended to withstand the area’s many hurricanes. The station keeper's family
occupied the main floor, and the attic was a dormitory for ship-wrecked sailors.
This author’s thesis presents a great deal of information on these
little-known stations, their keepers and the work that that they performed. (M).
$34. 6581v.
4718dd, ee, gg, gg, gg. CHRISTMAS EVE IN A LIGHT-HOUSE. Harper’s Weekly. December 30, 1876. 1pp. Beautiful, 11”x15”, full front page b/w (hand-colored shown) detailed woodcut illustration showing the undaunted light-keeper scraping ice from the lantern amidst a raging storm. Seen many times as a re-print, this original would be beautiful matted and framed. Also included in this 1876 Christmas issue, is a large full page illustration “Twas the Night Before Christmas” by famed illustrator Thomas Nast. Thomas Nast is famed as the creator of the bearded image of Uncle Sam that we know today, as well as the image of the plump, jolly Santa Clause and this first of his Santa Clause illustrations demand a premium in historic circles. b/w. Full issue, clean and crisp. (VG+) $88.
27165.
Light
House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT for
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1907. Engineer
– Third Light-House District. 1906. 66 pages. Soft wraps. Detailed listing of
supplies and articled required including construction supplies including
castings, pipe, iron and steel, hardware, machine parts, lumber, cement,
building materials, sheet metal, etc. Also includes shooks, files, charcoal,
complete list of provisions (food supplies), and more. Extremely rare. Overall
clean, tight, covers brittle, detached. (VG-). $185. 27162.
Light
House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT FOR
THE SINGLE-SCREW STEEL STEAM LIGHT-HOUSE TENDER TULIP. 1906. 105p.
Soft wraps. Extremely rare. Overall clean, crisp. (VG+). $185. 27167.
Light
House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT FOR
THE SINGLE-SCREW STEEL STEAM LIGHT-HOUSE TENDER CYPRESS. 1906. 110p.
Soft wraps. Extremely rare. Overall clean, crisp. (VG+). $185. 26238.
Lighthouse Service. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE TWIN-SCREW
STEEL, DIESEL-ELECTRIC-PROPELLED LIGHTHOUSE TENDER “JUNIPER”.
GPO. 1939. 91p. Original soft wraps, cloth tape reinforced. Includes complete
information on all aspects of the vessel, its design and equipment on board from
hull, engines, life rafts, crew’s quarters and berths, to lighting, electrical
and more. (VG+). $124. 27164.
Light
House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE
SINGLE-SCREW STEEL STEAM LIGHT-VESSELS Nos. 84, 85, 86, 87, and 88 and CONTRACT
FOR THE SINGLE-SCREW STEEL STEAM LIGHT-VESSEL No. ….. 1906. 97p.
Soft wraps. Extremely rare. Overall clean, crisp. (VG+). $225. 27158a.U.
S. Lighthouse Service. REGULATIONS FOR LIGHTING BRIDGES
OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS (also for Lights on Sheer Booms, Piers, dams,
and similar Obstructions to Navigation.) GPO. 1914. 15p. Provides regulations
for lighting all types of bridge and other structures, with 5 full-page color
plates. (VG). $28. 27158b.U.
S. Lighthouse Service. REGULATIONS FOR LIGHTING BRIDGES
OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS. GPO. 1928. 11p.With 5 full-page color plates.
(VG). $28. 27158c.U.
S. Lighthouse Service. REGULATIONS FOR LIGHTING BRIDGES
OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS. GPO. 1934. 11p.With 5 full-page color plates.
(VG). $28. 27158d.U.
S. Lighthouse Service. REGULATIONS FOR LIGHTING BRIDGES
OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS. GPO. 1937. 11p.With 5 full-page color plates.
(VG). $28.
2785.
Bush, Edward F. THE CANADIAN LIGHTHOUSE.
National Historic Sites Service, Ottawa, Manuscript Report No. 58. 1970.
350+ pages. Soft wraps. Illustrated with over 140 photos and fold-out maps.
NOTE: This is a different and much more comprehensive publication than the
Occasional Papers in Archaeology of the same title published in 1975. Extremely
comprehensive study traces the evolution of the Canadian lighthouse from the
first structure at Louisbourg in the 18th century to the latest developments in
lighthouse design and technology. There is an emphasis on the older extant
structures, with listings of data on individual lighthouses. Included is light
and lens information, fuels, fog signals, tower construction and much more. With
over 140 wonderful vintage photographs of the stations, lamps, equipment and
more, this is a most interesting work on a relatively little known area.
Includes fold-out maps, appendices, bibliography, index. Probably the best
historical reference on Canadian lighthouses that I have yet seen. (VG).
$135 2784.
Stevens, John R. LIGHTHOUSES OF THE GREAT LAKES -
ONTARIO. National Historic Sites Service, Ottawa, Manuscript Report
No. 94. c.1960’s. 174 pages. Soft wraps. Packed with hundreds of
detailed photos, architectural drawings and plot plans detailing all aspects of
the station construction and equipment including lanterns, fog machinery,
railings, galleries, stairways and much more. Pays particular attention to the
construction and structural aspects of the towers, focusing on 19 light stations
on Lake Ontario. This is a most interesting work on a relatively little known
area. (VG+). $88.
2770.
A Circular Steel Light Tower at Sturgeon Bay Canal. Engineering
News and American Railway Journal. November 9, 1899. One third page article
details the new type of lighthouse structure favored by the Light-House Board
recently constructed at Sturgeon Bay on Lake Michigan. Article includes good
detail of the design and construction of the iron light tower and lantern and
includes a large 2-page supplement with photos and sectional views of the
lantern and tower, stairway, foundation and more. The supplement measures 20
1/2" by 14 1/4" and is blank on the back. It has one fold in the
center where it was folded to fit into the publication. The remaining journal is
chock full of interesting articles including: The Heaviest Passenger Locomotive
Ever Built (for the Lakeshore and Michigan Southern Railway), Early Railway
Construction in the United States, Large Atlantic Cargo Steamers, A Centrifugal
Railway for Pleasure Resorts, a couple articles on railroad signaling and more.
Also included are engineering news bits and many interesting advertisements.
Full issue, 10 ½” x 14 ¼”, 30 pages, clean save light edge staining. (VG).
$48. 2719.
Page, Victor W. MOTOR BOATS AND BOAT MOTORS – Design,
Construction, Operation and Repair. New York. 1920. 524p. Marked
in pencil on frontis page “P A Evans Malden, Mass. U. S. Lighthouse Service,
Nantucket Lt. 1937”. Apparently once the property of one of the light
keepers on Nantucket, this early text details all aspects of the construction
and operation of early motor boats in use at the time, and indeed used by the
Lighthouse Service as well. Subjects include boat classification and types, hull
construction and design, motor boat fittings, boat operation and care, popular
boat designs, operating principals of boat motors, power plants, installation of
power plants, propelling devices, care and repair of motors, seaplanes and flying
boats, and more. Filled with photos and diagrams. A must for your maritime
library. Intact, spine and hinges professionally repaired, edgewear, contents
tight but some staining and soiling from years of use. (VG). $114.
2705. (document) U. S. Life Saving Service. Establishment of a Life Saving Station on Block Island. February 2, 1872. Original one page official manuscript document on Treasury Department stationary, dated February 2, 1872, whereby George S. Boutwell , Secretary of the Treasury, and Sumner Increase Kimball , the chief of the Treasury Department’s Revenue Marine Division, orders Captain John Faunce , United States Revenue Marine , to proceed to Block Island for the purpose of reporting upon the necessity for the establishment of a Life Saving Station at that point. Initialed in the upper left hand corner by Kimball, and signed in hand by Boutwell. Document reads: “S.I.K. Treasury Department February 2d, 1872. Sir: Previous to your return to New York from your tour of examination of the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., you will visit Block Island and ascertain and report to the Department as to the necessity for the establishment of a Life Saving Station at that point. I am, Very respectfully Geo. S. Boutwell, Secretary. [to] Capt John Faunce U.S.R.M. Room 33, No 64 Broadway, New York City.” One page document; 7 7/8 x 9 3/4; previously folded in horizontal thirds; remnants of indistinguishable light pencil notations at upper left and upper right; One, 1/4" burn hole on line three; chipping to upper & lower right margins. One, 3/8" to 3/4" wide strip of discolored backing material on verso that extends the entire height at right margin from being bound in original letter book. Light foxing and expected age toning. Script is slightly blurred. (VG-). $325 net 2737. Treasury Department. RECORD
OF MOVEMENTS. VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD. 1790 - DECEMBER 31,
1933. Wash. DC. GPO 1988. Reprint of 1933 edition by Coast Guard
Historian's Office. Oblong 4to. 675 pp. Introductory note says this is a
"standard work that has long stood the test of time.", an
understatement. This compendium includes every major vessel over 75-feet in
length of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and Coast Guard up to 1933, recording
its major movements including dates, details, locations, mission or occurrences
and much more. Also includes aircraft in the 20’s and 30’s, seized vessels,
and more. Superb reference. Fine condition (F). $185
9421. Gowdy, Jim & Kim Ruth. GUIDING
LIGHTS OF THE
2750. [NEW]. Tag, Thomas A. Brilliance
and Prejudice – The John R. Wigham Story. Dayton. 2007. Thomas Tag
has long been probably the only authority on lamps, lens apparatus and
illumination for lighthouses, with his articles on the subject appearing in our
catalogue, as well as the U. S. Lighthouse Society’s Keeper’s Log,
Lighthouse Digest and other publications. Now Tom has added still another volume
to his list of publications – Brilliance and Prejudice – The John R. Wigham
Story. This is the story of a brilliant engineer who created some of the most
interesting lighthouse equipment ever developed. His designs would be both
praised and maligned and would lead to conflict, prejudice, plagiarism, and the
ultimate resignation of one of the leading scientists of the day. Thoroughly
illustrated with early photographs and drawings, this booklet makes most
interesting reading. 33 p. (M). #2750. $26.
26355.
(PDF file on CD) Report of the United States
Light-House Board. Presented to Congress by Rear Admiral W. B. Shubrick,
U. S. Navy, Chairman. October 15, 1869. Approx 80p. Includes
complete report on construction, repairs and replacement of each and every
light and vessel from #1 at West Quoddy Head,
26223. (Architect’s view) First Order Light House on Fowey Rocks, Florida. c.1888. American Architect and Building News. February 25, 1888. A beautifully detailed, hand colored, original plan image from the American Architect and Building News. This image is extremely hard to find, as the American Architect and Building News not only had a very small circulation during that time, but very few were actually preserved or colored as this has been. It measures 8.75 by 12.75 inches and had been professionally matted. Overall mat size 11 by 16.5 inches. When the Fowey Rocks Lighthouse, located on a small area four miles from Soldier Key, was complete, Cape Florida Lighthouse was discontinued and keepers John and Simeon Frow were transferred from Cape Florida to Fowey Rocks, where they lit the lamps for the first time on June 15, 1878. Finely detailed and beautifully hand-colored, shrink wrapped. Plan is in fine condition, clean and crisp, perfect for framing. (F). $128.
26324c.
Secretary of the Treasury, U. S. Revenue Cutter Service. RULES
AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MOVEMENTS AND ANCHORAGE OF VESSELS IN SAINT
MARYS RIVER [Great Lakes]. Washington. 1901. 7p. Soft wraps.
Contains rules and regulations for the movement of vessels on the St.
marys River fromPoint Iroquios on Lake Superior, to Point Detour on Lake
Huron. Such rules are to be enforced by the Revenue Cutter Service and
include speed regulations, anchoring, passing and approaches, signals,
schedules, and more. Clean, tight. (VG+). $22. 26304.
26305.
26320.
(reply card) U. S. Life Saving Service c.1912.
Early reply card addressed to the General Superintendent was used to continue or
decline further receipt of future Annual Reports of the Life Saving Service.
This particular card is filled out by the Providence, RI Historical Society
declining future reports. Postmarked 1912. Great collectible, address side is
clean and unmarked, perfect for framing. (VG+). $48.
26278.
Hughes, Joseph Henry Jr., A COVENANT WITH HONOR – An
American “Lord Jim”. Lawndale. 1982. 3rd. 413p. Soft wraps. Frank
V. Helmer, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, writes of this book: “The United
States Coast Guard Academy subjects its cadets to a regime that is physically
arduous and mentally demanding. Each graduating Ensign takes with him, in
addition to a fund of academic and professional training, his personal triumph
over discouragement and fatigue. From my own cadet days, and from my tour as
Assistant Superintendent of the Academy, I have had a feeling for the daily
struggle that each cadet meets in his own way, but until I read this book I had
never seen that feeling reflected in print. As a cadet, Joseph Hughes met his
days with courage and enthusiasm. He grew in maturity and self discipline.
Tragically, his career as an officer ended before it had begun, but the picture
of his life as it unfolds on these pages will stand as a memorial to him, even
as it serves as an inspiration to all who read it." This poignant account
includes 15 chapters that span the time-frame from the early 1950s to 1964.
(VG+). $18. J-64.
na. BEACON LIGHTS – Guides to Wandering Steps. c.1886.
20 p. Beautiful full page engraved color images of area lighthouses by Harlow,
each preceded by of inspirational Poetry by Tennyson, Moore , Shelley, Scott,
Byron , Young , Wordsworth and Dryden. Each lighthouse is named with a bit of
information about its location, construction and characteristic (ie.
…Range 22 miles , two towers 100 feet apart and 250 feet above the level of
the sea , mineral oil used , first erected 1827 , rebuilt 1862…). Lights
include Sandy Hook, Navesink Highlands, Brant Point, Whales Back Light, Portland
Head, Owls Head, Petit Manan, and Bass Harbour. A lovely and inspirational
Victorian collectible. Light soiling, one lt stain and one chip to cover,
contents clean, with cloth ties. (VG). $118 net.
26220.
(matchbox labels) Collection of European matchbox
labels feature lighthouses, buoys or lightships. Labels are all
original, never used and measure from 1 ¼” x 2 ¼” to 3” x 4 ¼”.
Brands include Searchlight Safety Matches, Lightship Safety Match, Eddy Safety
Match, Flashlight Safety Match and more. Countries represented include England,
Sweden, Russia, and others. 14 designs or sizes. (F-). $1.60 each or $11 for 8
assorted. 6146e.
Ingraham, Reg. FIRST FLEET - The Story of the 7262c.
Petrow, Richard. ACROSS THE TOP OF RUSSIA - The Cruise
of the USCGC Northwind into the Polar Seas North of Siberia. David
McKay Co., New York. 1967. 374p. DJ. The dramatic story of the mission by the CG
Icebreaker Northwind across the top of Russia in 1965, a route that had been
“off limits” to all non-Russian shipping since the Russian Revolution. Here
is the story, based on first hand observation, of this exciting voyage. Across
the Top of Russia makes public the harassment encountered at the time, the news
reports withheld, and the furor that the trip aroused. Illustrated with
photographs. (VG+). $16. 26301. Baarslag, Karl. SOS RADIO RESCUES AT SEA. London. 1937. 243pp. For the first time the story of a number of famous sea disasters is told from the point of view of the vessel’s radio operators. See the development of this craft as the “brass pounders” have practiced it. The author has written these awesome tales in terms of dits and dahs, translated for us in terms of the hundreds of thousands of lives saved because of the use of radio and the unfailing devotion of the operators. Includes the true stories of the collision of the Republic and the Florida, the loss of the Titanic, the foundering of the Empress of Ireland, the heroic rescue of the storm-swept Antinoe by the President Roosevelt, the capsizing of the Vestris, the dreadful burst of flame on the Morrow Castle, and more. Clean, tight, nice copy. Rare radio related account. (VG+). $28. 695b.
26196.
(scrapbook) Daniel A. Grant, Boatswains Mate 2ns.,
Coast Guard Lifeboat Station Gloucester, Massachusetts c.1926-1933.
Heavy scrapbook contains numerous clippings and mementos of his service and of
the work of the Coast Guard across the country. Using a ledger, he clipped
articles from the Coast Guard Magazine, newspapers and other sources. Includes
large 5” x 7” photo of Grant himself. A few of the items include training
certificates, many Coast Guard articles, Coxswain rating, numerous Coast Guard
poems, vessels launched, early CG aircraft articles and images, wrecks and
rescue accounts, losses and rescues, breeches buoy drills, early life-saving
stations and crews, CGC Saranac launched, patrol boats, CG athletics, ice
patrol, lookout stations, motor lifeboats, early vessels, and much more. Great
reading. (VG-). $134.
25147c. (New Jersey coast
lithograph print.) c. 1878. 1 p. Disbound. Beautiful, hand colored ,
vintage antique 1878 lithograph print, from the very rare Woolmand and Rose
Atlas of the 26238.
Lighthouse Service. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE TWIN-SCREW
STEEL, DIESEL-ELECTRIC-PROPELLED LIGHTHOUSE TENDER “JUNIPER”.
GPO. 1939. 91p. Original soft wraps, cloth tape reinforced. Includes complete
information on all aspects of the vessel, its design and equipment on board from
hull, engines, life rafts, crew’s quarters and berths, to lighting, electrical
and more. (VG+). $124.
26203. Furst, Glenn C. [stepson of the Keeper of North Manitou Light Station]. MY POINT OF VIEW. Np. 1992. 121p. Soft wraps. Signed by the author. Illustrated with photographs. An engaging memoir of the author’s youth growing up on North Manitou Island, Michigan, during the nine years (1919-1928) that his stepfather was employed as the lighthouse keeper at North Manitou Light Station on Dimmick's Point on Lake Michigan. In 1928, the family was transferred to the South Manitou Station. Privately published in 1992 this soft cover volume, almost certainly the first and only edition, I found to be extremely interesting in its details of every day life. a rare glimpse into a place and time otherwise largely lost to history. Clean, tight, nice copy and the first that I have ever found. (VG+). $88. 26231. Thomsen, Captain Niels
Peter. MEN OF THE MENKAR : United States Coast
Guard World War Two Naval Exploits (A Memoir - World War Two Diaries).
Edmonds. 1999. 225p. Color illustrated glossy wraps. Inscribed by the
author. The author traveled widely and served in the United States Coast
Guard, the U.S. Lighthouse Service, and lived in Hollywood, Beaumont,
Texas, Ketchikan, Alaska, and generally led an exciting life. This
compilation of his memoirs and reminiscences include many of his
assignments while in the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service. Thomsen, a
Coast Guard Warrant Boatswain, temporarily promoted to Lieutenant, became
Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. MENKAR (AK-123). As a prelude to his
election for this important Coast Guard secret military assignment, the
author takes the reader back in time to 1942 in Southeastern Alaska.
His war diary chronicles these Alaskan and South Pacific periods of
service. Also contained therein is MEN of the U.S.S. MENKAR (AK-123), a
story of Loran. Now in his ninety-second year, Thomsen, after 55 years,
reveals this elaborate and graphically detailed true World War Two saga of
the MENKAR for the first time. (VG). $34.
26214. (2
books) from estate of Lighthouse Keeper Reuben T. Leavitt, [Keeper
Whaleback Lighthouse, Portsmouth, NH. c.1853-1859. ] Whaleback
Lighthouse with stone pier was built by order of President Andrew Jackson
between 1829 and 1831 for the combined cost of about $21,000. Although it
marks the approach to the harbor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, perched in
the fast-flowing Piscataqua, the isolated Whaleback Light is officially is
in Maine waters. By 1836 it was realized that the tower had been poorly
built - it leaked badly in storms and heavy seas. In 1837 some wooden
sheathing was added around the tower, and this apparently helped the
problem of the tower leaking the keeper noted that the tower rocked and
shook increasingly in storms, and that in one great storm on July 7, 1837,
the shaking was so violent that "some of the small stones of the
tower were shaken out and fell upon the floors of the rooms, and articles.
Somehow the 1831 tower managed to survive over 40 years and in 1855 a
fourth order Fresnel lens was installed. Options were considered but by
the time Keeper Leavitt arrived in 1853 still no remedies had been agreed
upon. Keeper Leavitt remained this position until 1859. It wouldn’t be
until 1872 that the new stone lighthouse tower that we see today was
finally erected. During that time these two books were in his possession
and were probably read by him during the long lonely hours in the
lighthouse. They were found in an estate sale of his descendents this past
summer in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. Each is an early, original work and
is signed on the frontis page in the keeper’s hand. The first is by M.
Carey. THE OLIVE BRANCH or FAULTS ON BOTH SIDES, FEDERAL AND DEMOCRATIC.
Concord. 1816. 468p. 7 ¼” x 5”. Original calf binding. Marked on 1st
blank page - Reuben T Leavitt Pittsfield Nov 5th 1824, then signed
again – R. T. Leavitt. The second is by an unknown writer and is
entitled MEMOIRS OF ANDREW JACKSON, Late Major-General and Commander in
Chief of the Southern Division of the Army of the United States. Boston.
1828. 334 p. 6” x 3 ¾”. Original binding, later cloth covering, front
hinge loose. Both have no missing pages but have expected wear, some torn
pages, foxing or age toning. Marked on 1st blank page - Reuben T Leavitt
Pittsfield Nov 5th 1824, then signed again – R. T. Leavitt. A rare
set. (G+). $148. Lot of 60 Lighthouse Apparatus Photographs by Chance Brothers c.1873-1881
Superb lot of 60 albumen photographs of dioptic lighthouse apparatus by Chance Brothers, Birmingham c.1873-1881. Original photographs measured 7” x 11 ½” and each was mounted on separate heavy printed catalogue page. Lot appears to have been from Chance Brothers catalogue or book of some type. An unprecedented find of early, original photographs.
Lighthouse Service Tender Insignia and Railing Finial.
Half figured, brass insignia, similar in look somewhat to Minot’s Ledge Light, were used by the U. S. Lighthouse Service on the bow of lighthouse tenders and a smaller version was used on the Captain’s stateroom door. Also, a similar full figured insignia was used on lighthouse lantern railings atop each post as a finial. As was common to the Service, Lighthouse Service Superintendents could also be seen to used these insignia to decorate their office. Photos exist of Superintendent Putnam with such insignia on his shelf and desk, much like 18th LH District Superintendent Harry W. Rhodes who had one on his bookshelf as well [see Ralph Shanks’ book Guardians of the Golden Gate page 59.] These insignia were once sand cast of heavy brass at the Staten Island Lighthouse Depot in New York. We have been most fortunate to find an old foundry who had the original U. S. Lighthouse Service patterns used for these insignia and who has agreed to once again cast these for us as needed. Patterns used are the actual US Lighthouse Service wooden patterns, in use since early in the last century, which produce a beautiful, heavy solid brass insignia identical to the original. On the obverse are still the identification letters "USLHS". These insignia make wonderful decorations or presentation pieces to lighthouse enthusiasts, or original mounting studs remain on the back which could be drilled and tapped to allow mounting on or beside your front door to identify your home or business. Insignia are fine grained brass and remain as they came from the foundry. These items have not yet been polished but are most presentable as is. If you have a polishing wheel with polishing rouge, with a few hours of additional effort you can bring these up to a smooth, bright finish, or for an additional fee we can have these professionally polished for you before delivery. These would make a wonderful addition to your home or office, or as a gift to your favorite Keeper. 20416. Lighthouse Tender Captain’s Stateroom Insignia. Measures 13 5/8" high by 9" wide at the base, approximately 8 lbs. Approx. $169*. 20417. Lighthouse Tender Bow Insignia. Measures 22 ¾" high by 14 ¾" wide at the base, approximately 24 lbs. Approx $349*. 20415. Lighthouse Railing Finial [used at many stations in the 1870-1920 period]. Not threaded. Measures 7" high by 3 ½" wide at the base, approximately 5 lbs. Approx. $119*. *Pricing is dependant on market prices of brass. Please inquire for current pricing.
26212. Tag, Thomas A. CHURCH
STEEPLES AND FOG SIGNALS. Dayton. 2006. 20p. Spiral bound.
Thomas Tag has long been probably the only authority on lamps, lens
apparatus and illumination for lighthouses, with his articles on the
subject appearing in our catalogue, as well as the U. S. Lighthouse
Society’s Keeper’s Log, Lighthouse Digest and other publications. Now
Tom has added still another volume to his list of publications – Church
Steeples and Fog Signals. This detailed account covers a long neglected
area of lighthouse equipment – the mechanical weight-driven fog bell
strikers. The author covers a history of fog bells, bell construction,
wave actuated bells and clockwork-striking machinery. Included are Lowell
Fog Bell Strikers, Custer Strikers, Daboll Strikers, Stevens, Gamewell,
and more. Thoroughly illustrated with early photographs and drawings,
this booklet makes most interesting reading. (M). #26212
$26.
26186.
(architectural reproduction prints) U. S. Life Saving
Station, Caffey’s Inlet, North Carolina. Views c.1936. Built in
1874, the station was located about 9 miles south by east of Currituck Beach
Lighthouse. Measured and drafted for the Historic American Buildings Survey,
these reproduction prints measure 11" X 17"., scale ¼” = 1’. The
six prints include: Print one displays a map around the area of Caffey's Inlet
highlighting the location of the life saving station. Print two displays an
exterior view of the North elevation of the structure. Print three displays an
exterior view of the South elevation of the structure. Print four displays an
exterior view of the East elevation of the structure. Print five displays a
sectional view of the East elevation of the structure revealing details of the
interior. Print six displays details on the molding and eaves found on the
structure. Great for research or display. Set 6 prints $48. 8228. DeWire, Elinor. GUIDE TO
6281. vanRoden, Mary. Nauset
Light, A Personal History - the1875 Lightkeeper’s House and the1892 Oil
House.
22399d. [medal] METIS
SHIPWRECK Congressional medal, bronze, 63.5mm (2 ½” ) designed by
William Barber, engraved by William and Charles Barber. The steamship Metis was
thrown up onto the beach off
26155. [full page advertisement]
Columbia Pictures. TARS AND SPARS – United
States Coast Guard. Life Magazine. December 24, 1945. Tars and
Spars premiered in 1945 starring Janet Blair and Alfred Blake. The movie
was based upon the stage show Tars and Spars and was produced in
cooperation with the United States Coast Guard. Typical boy meets girl
song and dance fare, the watery world of the Coast Guard provides the
setting for this musical that is loosely based on the famed Guard show
Tars and Spars and makes fun of war movies. The story centers on the
exploits of a heroic sailor who has never been to sea. Howard Young
(Alfred Drake) is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three
years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to
sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an
experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets
Christine Bradley (Janet Blair), a SPAR, sent to take over his
communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his
life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea. Stars Alfred
Drake of Broadway fame, as S 1/c Howard Young, Janet Blair as SPAR
Christine Bradley and comedian Sid Caesar who was already on active duty
as Seaman Chuck Enders. Chief Petty Officer Victor Mature was in the
original stage version. Tars and Spars launched the career of Caesar as a
comedian. Nice two color, full page add would be perfect framed. Disbound,
clean, only very light age toning. (VG+). $12. 26145.
(architectural reproduction prints) First U. S.
Life Saving Station, Spermacetti Cove, Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Views
c.1936. The Spermacetti Cove Life Saving Station built in
1848-1849 and was moved to Navasink Highlands from Sandy Hook in 1954. The
station was the first government life-saving station in this country and
is the oldest life-saving building still in existence. Measured and
drafted in the 1930’s, the originals were produced by the Historic
American Buildings Survey, National Park Service. These reproduction
prints measure 11" X 17"., scale 1” = 6’. The four prints
include: Print one serves as the cover page with a locus map of Sandy Hook
Bay highlighting the location of the Life Saving Station. Print two
includes a floor plan of the structure along with exterior elevation views
of the South, West, and East side of the station. Print three includes
framing elevation views, door construction, corner framing and more. Print
four details some of the equipment located at the station to include the
Manby Mortar, wheel ski, and Francis Metallic Life Car, rocket line
apparatus, etc. Great for research or display. Set 4 prints $28. (photo
not included)
26159.
(chart) U. S. Department of Commerce, Weather Bureau. COASTAL
WARNING FACILITIES CHART. 1962. Great for framing, these charts
show in good detail all of the U. S. Coast Guard light stations
(lighthouses), lifeboat stations and light vessels that displayed
day and.or night weather warning signals. Also includes in color a diagram
if the weather signals, as well as a complere listing of weather broadcast
stations. Two color red-black maps have beautiful contrast and are perfect
for framing. Pick the map of your area to locate those old Coast Guard
lifeboat stations that no longer exist. Clean, crisp, with original folds
but will mount nicely. All measure 12” x 19” unless otherwise noted. a.
Eastport, Maine to Montauk Point, NY. $24 c.
Cape Hatteras, NC to Brunswick, GA. $24 d.
Eastern Florida from Brunswick, GA to Cedar Key,
FL. $34 e.
Morgan City, LA to Apalachicola, FL. $24 f.
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. 12” x 12” $16 g.
Hawaiian Islands $16 8178c.
Driver, George Hibbert. CAPE-SCAPES. 2647.
(lot diagrams, operating information) Lighthouse,
Stratford Shoals Light Station, Connecticut. Lot of seven items
from the office of the Commander, Third Coast Guard District, detailing
the site and operation of the lighting apparatus at the Stratford Shoals
Light Station, Connecticut in the 1960’s. Included are: Large
architectural plan of the dwelling and light tower dated September 1914
including elevation views, plan views of both floors, sectional view
through the light tower and more from the Office of the Lighthouse
Inspector, Third LH District, Tompkinsville, NY. 22” x 30”;
Instruction sheets for Operating Aladdin Lamps; Receipt for Fourth Order
lens and stand, and for brass utensils delivered to the Stratford
Historical Society; Sectional drawings of various lens arrangements; misc.
letters. (VG-). $110. 2647.
(lot diagrams, operating information) Lighthouse,
Stratford Shoals Light Station, Connecticut. Lot of seven items
from the office of the Commander, Third Coast Guard District, detailing
the site and operation of the lighting apparatus at the Stratford Shoals
Light Station, Connecticut in the 1960’s. Included are: Large
architectural plan of the dwelling and light tower dated September 1914
including elevation views, plan views of both floors, sectional view
through the light tower and more from the Office of the Lighthouse
Inspector, Third LH District, Tompkinsville, NY. 22” x 30”;
Instruction sheets for Operating Aladdin Lamps; Receipt for Fourth Order
lens and stand, and for brass utensils delivered to the Stratford
Historical Society; Sectional drawings of various lens arrangements; Misc.
letters. $110. Lighthouse
& Lightship Trade Cards Beautiful multi colored trade
cards c. 1880’s showing a very nice, close, multi colored images of
lighthouses, light-vessels or buoys. These fantastic cards were issued by
the Duke Tobacco Co. as an insert premium in their brands of HONEST LONG
CUT and G. W. GAIL & AX’S Tobacco and Cigarettes during 1889.
These cards are from a fairly rare series of 25 cards entitled , "
LIGHTHOUSES", and are designated as N119 in Burdick’s American Card
Catalogue. The front of each card features a colorful die cut image of a
particular lighthouse, light-vessel or buoy, while the back features
advertising for Duke Tobacco. The lithography for the cards is
exceptional, full of vibrant color and detail and was done by the Giles Co
of
#605 ww. Sandy Hook
Lightship. (VG+). $78. uu. Brenton’s Reef
Lightship. (Fine). $78. vv. Vineyard Sound
Lightship. (VG+). $78. yy. Vineyard Sound
Lightship. (fine). $78. hh. Penfield Reef
Lighthouse. (Fine). $68. ii. Point Judith
Lighthouse. (Fine). $68. d3. Point Judith
Lighthouse. (Fine). $68. ii. Minot’s Ledge
Lighthouse. (VG). $58. tt. Minot’s Ledge
Lighthouse. (Fine). $68. oo. mm. Stratford Shoal
Lighthouse. Two folds to base. (VG). $38. LL. Sanibel Island
Lighthouse, c3. Bell Buoy. (VG+).
$54. nn. Bell Buoy. One fold.
(G). $34. 26119. Nalty, Bernard C., Dennis L. Noble, and Truman R. Strobridge. WRECKS, RESCUES & INVESTIGATIONS. Wilmington. 1978. 473 p. Blue cloth covered boards lettered in silver. Beginning during the first decade of the nineteenth century, this thoroughly researched text presents a history of the U.S. Life Saving Service and early Coast Guard using a variety of early official reports, documents and writings. With an emphasis on the "...humanitarian efforts, principally the rescue of shipwreck victims, and the promotion of maritime safety..." , the authors present a great detail of information and insights into a number of areas of importance including the origin and development of the service, the use and effectiveness of the Coston light, the improvements and operation of line throwing devices, use of the metallic lifecar, the use and effectiveness of the breeches buoy, lifeboats and their crews, improvements in lifesaving appliances, lifesaving actions during early combat action, rescue on ocean stations, rescue from the air, accidents and their investigation, and much more. Included to illustrate topics covered are numerous accounts of early and more recent wrecks and rescues. A must have information resource and reference. Near fine, rarely if ever opened. (F-). $175. 8329b. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 135. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY WITH COPYS OF REPORTS ON EXPERIMENTS RELATIVE TO THE MERITS OF LIGHTING HARBORS, &C BY COMPRESSED GAS; ALSO REGARDING THE WORKING OF THE INVENTION OF JOHN M. FOSTER…WITH DRAWINGS….. March 15, 1882. 12pp. disbound with 7 large fold-out plates detailing the buoys and gas operated lamps and compressors. Offers detailed descriptions as to the operation and construction of the gas-lighted buoys with drawings and specifications. $48. 792g.
O’Brien, T. Michael. GUARDIANS OF THE C2678.
[document] U. S. Coast
Guard, Return of Public Property (Apparatus, Equipment, Supplies, etc.)
for the Period From July 1, 1924 to June 30, 1925 at the Cranberry Island
Station, First District [Maine]. 50
pages. 9 ½” x 12”. Lengthy form contains spaces for all
items needed by the station and would be filled out the hand of the
Officer in Charge [Payson F. Myers] indicating the quantity of each item
on hand, received, and used during the year. Each and every possible item
is noted, from all sizes of brushes, to boats, burners, lamps, wicks,
tools, furniture, blocks, tackle, breeches buoy, line guns, vehicles,
draft animals, life belts, medicine chest, oars, shot line, paint, books
and forms, and much more. Listing covers 50 pages and is a must for
researchers working to properly furnish your Coast Guard or life-saving
station or museum exhibit. (Photocopy,
spiral bound. $11.) Shown is a Chance Bros. lamp and lens assembly. 2659. Tag, Thomas A. THE FRESNEL LENS
MAKERS PART IV - CHANCE BROTHERS GLASS WORKS. Ask about Tom's other works on the subject.
2660.
(lighthouse model) HO Scale Lindberg Lighthouse
Model Kit Number 70779 with working light. This is a good
looking lighthouse, set on a small island with an outbuilding and small
boat for the lightkeeper. This kit is brand new in the box, still wrapped
in the factory cellophane. 1/82 scale. (M). $68.
21437f.
Ryder,
8213(4).
Block of 4 National Parks Centennial series
commemorative stamps. Block shows a view down the beach
toward the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras. Four stamps, 2c denominations,
unused, 1972 issue. Scott #’s 1448, 1449, 1450, 1451. (M). $1.50. See also our
recently updated Commemorative
China page
2614. (catalogue) Bannerman,
Francis. MILITARY GOODS CATALOGUE 1938 - CANNON,
UNIFORMS, GATLING GUNS, AMMUNITION & RELICS. FRANCIS BANNERMAN CO.
New York 1938 ed wraps 9" x 11 ½” 287pp. This extensive
catalog is accompanied by the original pictorial mailing envelope (edge
worn) and a 1939 correction list. Illustrated throughout. The Bannerman
Company dated from the Civil War. They were the first merchants to
recognize the value of surplus military goods and became the premier
private arms dealer in the world. They bought 90% of the surplus from the
Spanish American war and after they were told not to store the 90 tons of
explosives in New York , they bought Bannerman Island on the Hudson River
. The company prospered until the 1970s. Catalogues of their goods were
routinely issued for almost 100 years although the quality of the printing
deteriorated over the years as the staff aged and pages were reproduced.
Extensively illustrated catalogue includes thousands of piostols, rifles,
cannon, cartridges, uniforms, medals, swords, naval lamps, battle
lanterns, life rings, binnacles and much more. Some past issues included
Lyle guns, Life-Saving Service annual reports for $1 each, lighthouse
items and more. Superb reading and a great reference. Pictorial paper
covers and contents in good condition, age toning but clean and tight.
(VG-). $128.
23148b.
Baker, T. Lindsay. LIGHTHOUSES OF TEXAS.
24367b
na. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES LIFE
SAVING CORPS IN RHODE ISLAND, MADE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT ITS JANUARY
SESSION, 1906. 24367d
na. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES LIFE
SAVING CORPS IN RHODE ISLAND, MADE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT ITS JANUARY
SESSION, 1906. 24367c
na. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES
LIFE SAVING CORPS IN RHODE ISLAND, MADE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT ITS
JANUARY SESSION, 1907.
5461. Lombard, Asa Cobb Paine. EAST OF
6249k.
Crowninshield, Mary Bradford. ALL AMONG THE
LIGHTHOUSES or THE CRUISE OF THE GOLDENROD. 6249j.
Crowninshield, Mary Bradford. ALL AMONG THE
LIGHTHOUSES or THE CRUISE OF THE GOLDENROD.
25217. [magic lantern glass slide set) Life-Saving
Service - Throw Out the Life Line. c.1890-1900. Beautiful full
color glass projection slide set featuring the Life-Saving Service
rescuing shipwrecked sailors by breeches buoy. Six superbly drawn hand
colored slides depict the shipwrecked crew, and the life-savers on shore
as they shoot the lint to the stricken vessel using the Lyle gun, set up
the breeches buoy apparatus and then haul the crew to shore. Slides
measures 3 ¼” x 4” and presents a superb, clear images. (F).
$88.
6275s. Ralph Shanks, Wick York, Lisa Woo
Shanks, editor. THE
B-305.
(First World War Cartographic Curiosity) Milton Bradley Co. GAME
OF THE NEW U.S. MERCHANT MARINE and INTERNATIONAL SALESMAN. Springfield
Mass, Copyrighted 1918, but ca. 1919. Prepared under the direction and
approval of the U. S. Shipping Board. Game board 20” x 34”, divided
into 4 panels, in original wooden box with attractive full color
lithographed cover , 2 spinners, 6 cast metal ships pieces. A Mercator
projection map shows the globe as colonial possessions of the European
powers. The German holdings are indicated as "Former German
Possessions". The islands north of New Guinea are designated as
"Japanese Mandate". Key & scale at the bottom right; the
index at the bottom left is of "Ports of the World & Chief
Exports", including Australia (Freemantle, Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart).
A circumnavigation route around the glob is marked in red with player
directions printed near each spot. Full directions are printed on the
inside of the box cover. The cover has an attractive lithographed view of
New York harbor with a liner in the foreground. The box bottom is
splitting, otherwise clean and bright, very good condition. A wonderful
Merchant Marine and game collectible. (VG). $295.
25172. [advertisement] UNITED
STATES COAST GUARD - STORM WARNINGS ARE UP. Great full page b/w
illustrated advertisement from 1952 magazine shows Chatham, Mass. Coast
Guard CG-36500 36-foot motor lifeboat heading out on its gold medal rescue
of the crew from the tanker Pendleton in February 1952. The add for
International Nickel Company touts the reliability of the eras’ new
metals that help the sturdy motor lifeboat continue on its mission. Quite
an attractive piece for framing. Full page, clean and crisp. (VG+).
$21.
8458a,b. [model] U. S. Coast Guard 36-Foot Motor Lifeboat. c.1989. Complete unopened plastic model kit by Glencoe Models reproduces this renown rescue craft in splendid detail, including all decals and scale figures. This sturdy craft has been responsible for the rescue of hundreds of seamen and now you can build one for display on your shelves too. 1/48 scale, unassembled kit. (M). $38.
2054. [paperweight] Heavy glass paperweight featuring an early c.1890 photograph of "Life-Saving Station, Salisbury Beach, Mass." This rare item features a nice detailed sepia photo image of the Keeper and crew posed on the boat-ramp with their beach apparatus cart and surfboat. The crew is poised with the pull ropes over their shoulder while their pet dog sits faithfully at their feet. Quite rare early Life-Saving Service image and collectible, clear, crisp. Paperweight measures 4" x 2 ¾" x 1"h. (VG+). $168 net. 21514a,b. [towel] Original large U. S. Coast Guard hand or dish towel measures 23" x 36". Manufactured by Cannon Mfg., this is a bright rose on white linen and bears the large initials "U.S.C.G." on a rose colored center band. These may have been for use at the Coast Guard Academy or for use in ship’s wardrooms. A fine Coast Guard collectible for your collection or for your galley. Clean, crisp, may be unused. (F). $54 net.
6744r,v,gg. [Topographic
Plate]. COAST LINES: PART OF MARTHA'S 6744s,ii. [Topographic Plate].
COAST LINES: PARTS OF Additional areas and locations available in same 1908 series including: Boothbay, Maine, Deer Isle, Maine, Morro Bay, Ca., Great South Bay, NY., Atlantic City, NJ., Sandy Hook, NJ., Presque Isle Bay, PA., San Francisco Bay, Ca., Bolinas Bay, Ca., Sodus Bay, NY., Cape Blanco, Or., Oceanside, Ca., Chesapeake Bay, Md., Buzzards Bay, Ma., Niagara Falls, NY., East Delta, La., Williamston, NC., St. Louis, Mo., Yosemite Valley, Ca., Yellowstone Canyon, and more. Pricing $44 - $78 each. 21126. South Bend Replicas,
Inc., CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUE/REPLICA ORDNANCE.
2551. (Fresnel lens) QUALITY
RUBY RED GLASS FRESNEL LENS. Beautiful Fresnel type
lenses were used in lamps and lanterns and would make wonderful lenses for
your model lighthouse or lantern. Lenses are vintage railroad lantern
lenses and are a beautiful ruby red. Marked “No. 4 Fresnel Embury Mfg
Co., Warsaw, NY.” Entirely intact and clean, few if any small
chips. A great piece, perfect for use in your own lawn lighthouse or
for display. 2 9/16” ID, 3 1/8” OD, 3 3/16” high. 8 available.
$22 each.
24163. Field, Van R. and John
J. Galluzzo., NEW
23384.
[Framed Lighthouse Prints ] Here is a
pair of nicely framed lighthouse prints that were taken from early woodcut
engravings. We are not certain of the date on these items but we believe
that they may be earlier and possibly framed in the 1970's-1980's. The
first print is titled Phare d'Edystonel, and the second print is titled
Minot's Ledge Lighthouse. The detailing on these prints is fantastic!
These prints are matted and presented in handsome frames with antique
style molding and wood design finish. Both frames are complete with glass,
paper backings and wire for hanging attached, and are ready for immediate
display upon arrival. On the edges of the frames there are a few minor
areas that need to be retouched but overall, both frames are in EXTREMELY
GOOD CONDITION! These items would look exceptionally nice displayed
together in your home, or office, or would make a charming gift for any
collector of lighthouses! Overall Size: Approximately 14" x 18
1/4". (VG+).
Set 2 framed prints: $126 net. U. S. Light-House Service District Charts
20178. [Light-House District Maps]. U. S. Light-House Service. c. 1900-1908. A rare opportunity to obtain an official U. S. Light-House Service District charts of all district aids to navigation as bound in their Annual Reports. Normally these charts are included within the Annual Reports and we are unable to offer them separately but we have found a lot of disbound charts in wonderful condition. These are perfect for matting and framing for your wall. Charts detail the entire Light-House District in three colors, and show all lighthouses, beacons, light vessels, fog signals, lighted buoys, Light-House Depots, and more. Charts average about 16" x 20" in size and are clean and crisp, with only light original folds. A rare chance to obtain the chart of your District, ideal for framing. (VG+). UNITED STATES. Outline Map shows all of the United States Light-House Districts with the more important lights noted. Includes all of continental United States and Alaska. $88. FIRST LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From the head of navigation on the St. Croix River, Maine to Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire. Includes all of Maine and New Hampshire. $88. SECOND LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire to Elisha Ledge off Warren, Rhode Island. Includes all of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. $88. THIRD LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From Elisha Ledge off Warren, Rhode Island to and including a point on the coast of New Jersey opposite Shrewsbury Rocks. $88. PART OF THE THIRD LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. Includes all of Lake Champlain. $44. FOURTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From a point on the coast of New Jersey opposite Shrewsbury Rocks to and including Metomkin Inlet, Virginia. Includes New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. $88. FIFTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From Metomkin Inlet, Virginia to and including New River Inlet, North Carolina. $88. SIXTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From New River Inlet, North Carolina to and including Jupiter Inlet Light-Station, Florida. Includes part of North Carolina, all of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida between the limits named. $88. SEVENTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From a point south of Jupiter Inlet Light-Station to Perdido Entrance, Florida. Includes all of the sea and Gulf Coasts of Florida. $88. EIGHTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From Perdido Entrance, Florida to the southern boundary of Texas. Includes all of the Gulf Coast and lower Mississippi River. $88. NINTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. Includes all of Lake Michigan, Green Bay and tributary waters. $88. TENTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. Extends from the mouth of the St. Regis River, St. Lawrence River, New York to the mouth of the River Rouge, Detroit River, Michigan. Includes the waters of Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the upper part of the St. Lawrence, the Niagara, and the lower part of the Detroit rivers. $78. ELEVENTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. Extends from the mouth of the River Rouge, Detroit River, Michigan to the westerly end of Lake Superior including the waters of Lake St, Clair, Huron, and Superior and the upper part of the Detroit River, the St. Clair and St. Mary’s Rivers, and part of the Straits of Mackinac. $78. TWELFTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From the boundary between California and Mexico to the boundary between California and Oregon. $88. THIRTEENTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. From the boundary between California and Oregon to the northern boundary of the United States and includes Alaska. Includes all of Oregon and Washington, and Alaskan waters. $88. FOURTEENTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. Extends on the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Cairo, Ill., on the Tennessee River 255 miles, and on the Great Kanawha 73 miles. $54. FIFTEENTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. Extends on the Mississippi River from the head of navigation to Cairo, Ill., and on the Missouri River to Kansas City, Mo., and on the Illinois River from LaSalle to its mouth. $54. SIXTEENTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. Extends on the Mississippi River from the head of navigation to Cairo, Ill., to New Orleans, La., and on the Red River. $54. LIGHT-HOUSE CHART. Includes West Indies between the Mona and Virgin Passages comprising Puerto Rico and dependencies, and all of the Hawaiian Islands. $38.
2319. [model] U. S. Coast Guard #44329 44-Foot Motor Lifeboat. Complete unopened wooden model kit by Billing Models reproduces this renown rescue craft in splendid detail, including all decals and scale figures. The 44-foot motor lifeboat is a very seaworthy lifeboat, designed to carry out search and rescue assignments in poor weather and heavy sea conditions. With a skilled and experienced crew, this vessel can carry out the most demanding of rescue operations and has been responsible for the rescue of hundreds of seamen. The 44329 is self-righting and was built in 1961 at the Coast Guard shipyard in Curtis Bay, Maryland. This is a brand new Billing Boats #100 U.S. Coast Guard life boat model in the original box, unassembled. This is a do-it-yourself kit with wooden and plastic and metal parts. The 1:40 Scale model , when completed is 36.3 cm. long X 23.6 cm. Tall X 10.7 cm. wide. Most Billing Boats kits are cut using modern laser technology for the manufacture of both brass and plastic fittings. Billing Boats kits are complete with fittings, detailed drawings and assembly instructions. Unassembled kit, sealed box, new. (M). $124. Procedure to order items: 1. I suggest that you call us or email to check on availability of any item that you would like other than recent books. As items go quite quickly, please call and leave a message to reserve items that you would like. I will return your call, hold the items and await your letter or credit card information. We will also weigh the items and advise postage. 2. You may then call or email credit card information, or forward a check in the mail. Most items are mailed US Priority Mail or UPS. Additional
information on our "Ordering Page".
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U.S. Coast Guard photo.
Keeper Jennings next to the
lighthouse. 
(image from my
collection.) 
Georgia Norwood
Bishop and Clerks Lighthouse, Hyannis, Mass. Coast Guard photo. 
(for illustration of area only.)
Wigham 31-Day Oil Lamp
(U. S. C. G. photo)
