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• A Laskari Dictionary: or, Anglo-Indian Vocabulary of Nautical Terms and Phrases in English and Hindustani, Chiefly in the Corrupt Jargon in Use Among Laskars or Indian Sailors (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, ca. 1881), by Thomas Roebuck, William Carmichael Smyth, and George Small (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Universal Dictionary of the Marine (new edition; London: T. Cadell, 1780), by William Falconer (HTML at National Library of Australia)
• Vocabolario Marino e Militare (in Italian; Rome: Voghera Carlo, 1889), by Alberto P. Guglielmotti (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Universal Dictionary of the Marine (new edition; London: T. Cadell, 1780), by William Falconer (HTML at National Library of Australia)

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

• Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
• In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)

• Derrotas Desde el Puerto de Montevideo a Buenos-Aires: Por el Norte, y Sud del Banco Chico, Que Para Bien de la Humanidad y Del Comercio (in Spanish; Montevideo, Uruguay: Imp. de la Caridad, 1826), by Benito Aizpurúa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The American Neptune (partial serial archives)

• United States Naval Institute Proceedings (partial serial archives)

• The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1958), by Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, and Andreas Tietze (page images at HathiTrust)

• Derrotas Desde el Puerto de Montevideo a Buenos-Aires: Por el Norte, y Sud del Banco Chico, Que Para Bien de la Humanidad y Del Comercio (in Spanish; Montevideo, Uruguay: Imp. de la Caridad, 1826), by Benito Aizpurúa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Camouflage Simplified (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1942), by Eric Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1917), by George C. Thorpe (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• U. S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), by Duncan S. Ballantine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sound-Signals (reprinted from the Annual Cyclopaedia; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)

• Ancient and Modern Light-Houses (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889), by D. P. Heap (multiple formats at Google)
• A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World (London: R. H. Laurie, 1861), by Alexander George Findlay (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouse Construction and Illumination (London and New York: E. and F. N. Spon, 1881), by Thomas Stevenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at Google)
• The Lights and Tides of the World, Including a Description of All the Fog-Signals (fifth edition; London: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, 1904), by Henry D. Jenkins
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lightships and Lighthouses (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Frederick A. Talbot (multiple formats at Google)
• The Modern Light-House Service (Washington: GPO, 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Seamarks: A Plain Account of the Lighthouses, Lightships, Beacons, Buoys, and Fog-Signals Maintaned on Our Coasts for the Guidance of Mariners (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884), by E. Price Edwards (multiple formats at Google; US acces only)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses (London: J. Weale, 1850), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships, Descriptive and Historical (London et al.: T. Nelson and Co., 1891), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse, With Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black; London: Longman and Co., 1848), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses: Their History and Romance (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co.; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1895), by William John Hardy
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, With an Historical Introduction and Sequel (London: J. W. Parker, 1844) (multiple formats at Google)
• 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)

• Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1911), by Julian Stafford Corbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748 (1928), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711 (London: Printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712), by Woodes Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney-General of England, in the British House of Commons, May 13, 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1864), by George Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Soveraignty of the British Seas, Proved by Records, History, and the Municipal Laws of This Kingdom: Written in the Year 1633 (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1739), by John Borough (multiple formats at Google)
• The Sovereignty of the British Seas: Written in the Year 1633 (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, Ltd., 1920), by John Borough, ed. by Thomas Callander Wade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters; With Special Reference to the Rights of Fishing and the Naval Salute (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations Which Have From the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time (new and revised edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1878), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Walter W. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
• Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1905), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• The World's Highway: Some Notes on America's Relation to Sea Power and Non-Military Sanctions for the Law of Nations (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1915), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: or, A Key to The Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship (American edition; New York: E. and G. W. Blunt, 1858), by Darcy Lever, contrib. by G. W. Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sound-Signals (reprinted from the Annual Cyclopaedia; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• 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)
• A System of Marine Signals (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1876), by S. P. Griffin (multiple formats at Google)

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