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• Navigation, Steam

• 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
  • 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)

• Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River (New York: Grafton Press, c1907), by David Lear Buckman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Naval Boilers: A Text-Book for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1903), by Frederick Charles Bieg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naval Boilers: A Text-Book for the Instruction of Midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy (second edition, revised; Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1906), by Frederick Charles Bieg (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images

• The Lake Erie Sidewheel Steamers of Frank E. Kirby (Detroit: Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild, 1955), by Gordon Pritchard Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (Lansing, MI: D.D. Thorp, 1892), by Chester D. Berry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early American Steamers (2 public domain volumes (later copyrighted volumes searchable but not readable online); Buffalo: E. Heyl, 1953-1956), by Erik Heyl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Travelers Legal Guide and Business Man's Directory: Being the Duties of Railroad Companies, and Steamboat and Stage-Coach Proprietors, in the Transportation of Passengers, Baggage, and Other Property, And Their Responsibilities Relative To Accidents, Injuries to, and the Loss of Property, etc. (Rochester, NY: D. M. Dewey, 1855), by Alexander S. Davis (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, In Favor of the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamships to the Western Coast of Africa, and Thence Via the Mediterranean to London (Washington: Gideon and Co., 1850), by United States House Committee on Naval Affairs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Record of American and Foreign Shipping (partial serial archives)

• Ship Registers and Enrollments of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790-1939 (2 typescript volumes, second titled "Ship Licenses Issued to Vessels Under Twenty Tons and Ship Licenses on Enrollments Issued Out of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island"; Providence: National Archives Project, 1938-1941), by Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Rollo on the Atlantic (Boston: Taggard and Thompson, 1864), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Iron Hulls for Western River Steamboats (American Society of Civil Engineers Transactions #15, 1873), by Theodore F. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Foreign Ships in Micronesia, by Francis X. Hezel (HTML at micsem.org)

• Proceedings of a Meeting, and Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Cleveland, in Relation to Steamboat Disasters on the Western Lakes, by Cleveland Committee on Steam Navigation on the western lakes (page images at MOA)

• The American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation (editions of 2002, 2017, and 2019), by United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency, contrib. by Nathaniel Bowditch (PDF files at nga.mil)
• Practical Marine Navigation (Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Press, c1945), by James A. Stowell (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 Improved Practical Navigator: Containing All Necessary Instruction for Determining the Latitude by Various Methods, and for the Ascertaining the Longitude by Lunar Observations, in a Complete Epitome of Navigation (revised by Kirby from Bowditch's text; London: Printed for J. and J. Hardy and D. Steel, 1802), by Nathaniel Bowditch and Thomas Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation, Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used With the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations, and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea (second edition; Newburyport, MA: Printed by E. Blunt, 1807), by Nathaniel Bowditch (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)
• Il Primo Viaggio Intorno al Globo di Antonio Pigafetta, e le Sue Regole sull'Arte del Navigare; Giraloamo Benzoni e la Sua Historia del Mondo Nuovo (in Italian; Rome: Auspice il Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, 1894), by Antonio Pigafetta, ed. by Andrea Da Mosto, contrib. by Marco Allegri
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Bibliography of Maritime Literature (New York: American Steamship Association, 1918), by William Mackellar Brittain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Light-House Board (Washington: GPO, 1886), by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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)
• Bowditch's Useful Tables (fourth edition; New-York: E. and G. W. Blunt, 1863), by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minding the Helm: Marine Navigation and Piloting (1994), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

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

• The Global Positioning System: A Shared National Asset (1995), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary 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)

• Ocean Sciences, Technology, and the Future International Law of the Sea (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1966), by William T. Burke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Seaman's Rights in the U.S. When Involved in an Accident (in 8 languages; Miami: I. Adels, c1989), by Charles R. Lipcon (PDF with commentary at lipcon.com)
• Lecciones de Derecho Maritimo Internacional (in Spanish; Mexico: I. Cumplido, 1854), ed. by Justo Sierra O'Reilly
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Law of the Sea: Offshore Boundaries and Zones (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1967), ed. by Lewis M. Alexander (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Freedom of the Seas: The Sinking of the William P. Frye (prepared for Col. E. M. House; 1918), ed. by Sidney Edward Mezes, contrib. by Horace S. Oakley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.