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Maiden Voyage Booksellers specializes in used, new, rare and out-of-print maritime and nautical books on ocean liners, passenger ships, steamships, the Titanic, tugboats, towboats, merchant ships, tankers, freighters, work boats, cargo ships, ship modeling, shipbuilding, sailing, yachting, ferries, Great Lakes, lighthouses, lightships, shipwrecks, steamboats and the Coast Guard. We also buy books in these categories and have over 2,000 searchable postcards on these subjects.

In addition to our wide range of maritime books we also stock a select list of scholarly titles covering the subjects of ancient history, archaeology, art, architecture, medieval history and numismatics. To see all "Featured Items" refresh this page. Featured Items are changed on the first of every month. To see all other titles click on one of the categories on the left or use the Search box.

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320 pp; Volume 5 in the 6 Volume series; continues the LEVIATHAN saga picking up in 1930 as she begins her final 5 years of service endiong in three years of idelness at a pier in Hoboken; profusely illustrated with sepia tone photos and line drawings; illustrated end papers THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP: LEVIATHAN (VOLUME 5)
Braynard, Frank O.
Sea Cliff, NY: Privately Printed by the Author, 1981. 320 pp; Volume 5 in the 6 Volume series; continues the LEVIATHAN saga picking up in 1930 as she begins.. more
Price: $50.00
248 pp; an extraordinary photographic record with extensive details of the personal collection of 17th and 18th century ship models by the Kriegstein brothers. The 26 vessels shown here are each presented with a series of lavish, exceptionally fine quality, full-color photos in extraordinary details and clarity. The accompanying text gives the details of the model's aquisition, provenance, description, construction and historical perspective. Additional chapters include a Queene Anne figurehead presented in same manner as the ship models; photojournalism in the 17th century and details on care and conservation of models. This is the Second revised and expanded edition of work originally published in 2007; with 5 new chapters on ship models added; published in landscape format; highly detailed line drawings on endpapers; dj has minor bumps to corners and has small scratch that is noticeable when book is held at a certain angle 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY SHIP MODELS FROM THE KRIEGSTEIN COLLECTION: SECOND REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
Kriegstein, Arnold and Henry
Florence, OR: SeaWatchBooks, 2010. 248 pp; an extraordinary photographic record with extensive details of the personal collection of 17th and 18th century ship models.. more
Price: $125.00
436 pp; Volume 4 in the 6 Volume series; continues the LEVIATHAN saga beginning in 1926 during the height of her popularity and ends with the stock market crash in 1929; profusely illustrated with sepia tone photos and line drawings; end paper deck plans THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP: LEVIATHAN (VOLUME 4)
Braynard, Frank O.
Newport News, VA: Mariner's Museum, 1976. 436 pp; Volume 4 in the 6 Volume series; continues the LEVIATHAN saga beginning in 1926 during the height of.. more
Price: $50.00
64 pp; staple-bound booklet; profusely illustrated with b & w photos, illustrations and line drawings; plus 16 pp of superb, full-color photos; has 2 small bookstore stamps on inside of fornt cover and on title page; in full-color photo wraps A MODELER'S GUIDE TO ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL SHIPS
Mansir, A. Richard
Dana Point, CA: Moonraker Publications, 1981. 64 pp; staple-bound booklet; profusely illustrated with b & w photos, illustrations and line drawings; plus 16 pp of superb,.. more
Price: $35.00
188 pp; scholarly examination the spread of Lain in the West; well-illustrated with b & w photos, drawngs, maps, charts and reproductions of ancient ; pblished without a dj in grey cloth boards with red stamping BECOMING ROMAN, WRITING LATIN: LITERACY AND EPIGRAPHY IN THE ROMAN WEST
Cooley, Alison E. (Editor)
Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2002. 188 pp; scholarly examination the spread of Lain in the West; well-illustrated with b & w photos, drawngs, maps, charts.. more
Price: $145.00
448 pp; the concluding volume in the 6 Volume series; continues the LEVIATHAN saga in her final years being laid-up in Hoboken and her final journey to the breakers; profusely illustrated with hundreds of sepia tone photos of her abandoned interiors plus a full-color fold-out reproduction of the painting by Albeert Brenet as she approached the breakers THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP: LEVIATHAN (VOLUME 6)
Braynard, Frank O.
Kings Point, NY: American Merchant Marine Museum, 1982. 448 pp; the concluding volume in the 6 Volume series; continues the LEVIATHAN saga in her final years being laid-up.. more
Price: $50.00
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