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• Navigation -- Early works to 1800

• The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A Short History of Navigation (Annapolis: Weems System of Navigation, 1942), by William James Vivian Branch and E. Brook-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sea and its Story, From Viking Ship to Submarine (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), ed. by Frank H. Shaw and Ernest H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik (in German and Italian; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909), by Konrad Kretschmer
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• The American Neptune (partial serial archives)

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat (Maryland Historical Society Fund Publication #5; Baltimore: Printed by J. Murphy, 1871), by John H. B. Latrobe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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)

• The Arte of Nauigation: Wherein is Contained All the Rules, Declarations, Secretes, and Aduises, Which For Good Nauigation are Necessarie and Ought to be Knowen and Practised, and are Very Profitable for All Kind of Mariners (London: T. Dawson, 1581), by Pedro de Medina, trans. by John Frampton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• General and Rare Memorials Pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation Annexed to the Paradoxal Cumpas, in Playne: Now First Published, 24 Yeres After the First Invention Thereof (1577), by John Dee, contrib. by George Gemistus Plethon and Willem Canter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Navigatio Britannica: or, A Complete System of Navigation in All Its Branches, Both With Regard to Theory and Practice (London: Printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page, 1750), by John Barrow
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• Tratado del Esphera y del Arte del Marear (facsimile reprint of the 1535 Seville edition, published as v4 of Histoire de la Science Nautique Portugaise à L'Époque des Grandes Découvertes; Munich: J. B. Obernetter, 1915), by Francisco Faleiro
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• 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)

• The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)