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• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

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• Certain Errors in Navigation, Detected and Corrected by Edw. Wright; With Many Additions That Were Not in the Former Editions (London: J. Moxon, 1657), by Edward Wright (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sailing Directions for the Coasts, Harbours, and Islands of North America, from Cape Canso to Philadelphia: Comprehending the Coasts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Within the Bay of Fundy, Also the Coast of the United States from Passamaquody Bay to Philadelphia (London: C. Wilson, 1856), by J. W. Norie and J. S. Hobbs
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Illustrated Coast Pilot, With Sailing Directions: The Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, Including Bays and Harbors (New York: Rudder Pub. Co., c1902), by N. L. Stebbins (multiple formats at Google)
• Sailing Directions for the Principal Ports on the East Coast of the United States of America (third edition; London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, and sold by J.D. Potter, 1882) (page images at Google)

• Navigation aux Côtes du Brésil (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1821), by Albin-Reine Roussin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Series of Charts, With Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo..., by Cadwalader Ringgold (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Handbook for the Guidance of Shipmasters on the Ichang-Chungking Section of the Yangtze River (Shanghai: Statistical Dept. of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1920), by S. Cornell Plant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thompson's Coast Pilot: For the Upper Lakes, on Both Shores from Chicago to Buffalo, Green Bay, Georgian Bay, and Lake Superior; Including the Rivers Detroit, St. Clair and Ste. Marie, with the Courses and Distances on Lake Ontario, and Other Information Relative Thereto (5th edition, 1869), by Thomas S. Thompson (page images at hhpl.on.ca)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• Notices of the Western Coast of the United States (revised edition; Washington: Printed by Gideon and Co., 1851), by United States Coast Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Series of Charts, With Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo..., by Cadwalader Ringgold (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• The American Pharos, or Light-House Guide (Washington: Thompson and Homans, 1832), by Robert Mills (multiple formats at Google)

• Navigation aux Côtes du Brésil (in French; Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1821), by Albin-Reine Roussin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• United States Coast Pilot (current electronic edition, 9 volumes), by United States National Ocean Service (PDF files with commentary at noaa.gov)

• The Colombian Navigator: or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and the West-Indies (2 volumes; London: Printed for R. H. Laurie, 1823-1824), by John Purdy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gordon of the Lost Lagoon: A Romance of the Pacific Coast (New York: Minton, Balch and Co., 1924), by Robert Watson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Kingdom of the Sun: A Romance of the Far West Coast (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1927), by A. M. Stephen (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)

• Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living With the Shores of Oregon and Washington (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Paul D. Komar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Picturesque Alaska: A Journal of a Tour Among the Mountains, Seas and Islands of the Northwest, From San Francisco to Sitka (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889), by Abby Johnson Woodman (illustrated HTML with added map at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Voyage Round the World, But More Particularly to the Northwest Coast of America, Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon (London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789), by Nathaniel Portlock (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographic Features of Northwestern America, by Edmond S. Meany (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

• A Pacific Coast Vacation (New York et al.: Abbey Press, c1901), by Mrs. James Edwin Morris, illust. by James Edwin Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806 (San Francisco: The Private press of Thomas C. Russell, 1926), by Nikolaĭ Petrovich Rezanov, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)

• Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Appleton's Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (page images at LOC)

• Chinook As Spoken By the Indians of Washington Territory, British Columbia and Alaska; for the Use of Traders, Tourists and Others Who Have Business Intercourse With the Indians: Chinook-English, English-Chinook (Victoria, BC: M.W. Waitt, ca. 1889), by Charles Montgomery Tate (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chinook Dictionary, Catechism, Prayers and Hymns (1871), by Modeste Demers and Francis Norbert Blanchet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language, or "Chinook Jargon" (London: Whittaker, 1890), by Horatio Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon: the Complete Language Used By the Indians of Oregon, Washington Territory and British Possessions (San Francisco : Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at adisoft-inc.com)
• Chinook and Shorthand Rudiments: With Which the Chinook Jargon and the Wawa Shorthand Can be Mastered Without a Teacher in a Few Hours (1898), by J. M. R. Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It (Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, 1909), by George C. Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests, and Isthmiana, by Theodore Winthrop (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at adisoft-inc.com)

• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon (Victoria, BC: T.N. Hibben, late 1800s) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: the Indian Trading Language of Alaska, the Northwest Territory and the Northern Pacific Coast (San Francisco: Downing & Clark, 1898) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast, by Franz Boas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Siwash, Their Life, Legends and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Calvert, 1895), by J. A. Costello
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Legacy Washington

• The Story of Salmon (Seattle: Gateway Printing Co., ca. 1920), by Carlisle Packing Company (page images at washingtonruralheritage.org)

• Gardening Without Irrigation: Or Without Much, Anyway, by Steve Solomon
  • PDF and frame-dpendent HTML at soilandhealth.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America (2 volumes in 4 parts; Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1924-1927), by Ida Shepard Oldroyd (page images at HathiTrust)

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