Navigation -- Early works to 1800

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• Maritime law -- Early works to 1800

• The Voyage of Nearchus; and The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (Greek text with English translation and notes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1809), by Arrian, trans. by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Compleat Guide to All Men in Business (Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1754), by Wyndham Beawes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Complete Guide to All Men in Business (6th edition; Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1773), by Wyndham Beawes (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation (bicentennial edition, 2002), by United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency, contrib. by Nathaniel Bowditch (Javascript-dependent PDF files at nga.mil)

• A Bibliography of Maritime Literature (New York: American Steamship Association, 1918), by William Mackellar Brittain (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark (electronic edition), by Guy Meriwether Benson (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Men Against the Sea (c1933), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Riddle of the Sands, by Erskine Childers
  • illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• A Short History of Navigation (Annapolis: Weems System of Navigation, 1942), by William James Vivian Branch and E. Brook-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of John Fitch, the Inventor of the Steam-Boat (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1857), by Thompson Westcott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Minding the Helm: Marine Navigation and Piloting, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images at NAP)

• Views on the Free Navigation of the St. Lawrence, Reported, by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at MOA)

• Navigation Tables for Mariners and Aviators (Washington: Pub. by the Hydrographic Office under the authority of the Scretary of the Navy, 1928), by Joseph Young Dreisonstok (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minding the Helm: Marine Navigation and Piloting, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images at NAP)

• Proceedings of the Congressional Convention, Held in the City of St. Louis, on 13th, 14th and 15th days of May, 1873 (page images at MOA)

• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (PDF files at louisiana.gov)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo", by B. F. Childs (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo", by B. F. Childs (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Morris Canal and Banking Company: Final Report of Consulting and Directing Engineer, June 29, 1929 (Trenton: Morris Canal and Banking Company, 1929), by Cornelius C. Vermeule (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Pocket Guide for the Tourist and Traveller, Along the Line of the Canals, and the Interior Commerce of the State of New-York (New York: T. and J. Swords, 1824), by Horatio Gates Spafford
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Mighty Chain: A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives, by New York State Archives and Records Administration
  • HTML at nysed.gov
  • text at nysed.gov

• Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries (second edition, c2011), by Dan Guzy (PDF with commentary at whilbr.org)

• Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River and Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River and Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Causes of the Reduction of American Tonnage and the Decline of Navigation Interests, by United States House of Representatives (page images at MOA)

• Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• The Story of the Rock, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Lighthouse, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenbgerg text)

• Saved at Sea: A Lighthouse Story, by Mrs. O. F. Walton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter, and Their Relation to Each Other, by Michael Faraday (HTML at Fordham)

• Records of a Family of Engineers, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)

• The Global Positioning System: A Shared National Asset, by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images at NAP)

• Greater Safety at Sea, and International Tribunals for Questions of Collision: Paper Presented to the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations (New York: J. Polhemus, 1875), by David Dudley Field (page images at Gallica)

• Boat Sailing in Fair Weather and Foul (New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1908), by Ahmed John Kenealy (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)
• Canoeing, Sailing and Motor Boating (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1919), by Warren H. Miller
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Circumnavigators: Small Boat Voyagers of Modern Times (c1974), by Don Holm (illustrated HTML at stexboat.com)
• Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia, by H. Warington Smyth
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at thecheappages.com
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Sailing, by E. F. Knight (HTML at arthursclassicnovels.com)

• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)

• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)

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