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We sell antiquarian and out-of-print books about the sea, ship and sailor. This includes books about the Arctic and Antarctica, naval architecture and naval history, navigation, merchant marine, piracy and privateering, shipbuilding, ship modeling, shipwrecks all facets of maritime history, voyages and yachting.

J. Tuttle Maritime Books has been in business since 1980 and had inherited a business that the family started in 1946. We do not have an open shop but operate from our home with a stock of over 10,000 volumes. We sell via our paper catalogue, the internet, by fax and telephone. We can be reached between 10:00 am CST and 6:00 pm CST, Monday through Saturday.

Featured Items

EIGHTEEN MONTHS ON A GREENLAND WHALER.
Faulkner, Joseph F.
New York: Privately printed, 1878. 317 p., frontis portrait. text beginning to yellow, tiny nick in top of spine. Overall very good+. 12 mo. .. more
Price: $225.00
BRIEF HISTORICAL DATA AND MEMORIES OF MY BOYHOOD DAYS IN NANTUCKET.
Farnham, Joseph E.C.
Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1923. 319 p., 92 illus., 1 map. .. more
Price: $150.00
MAIL LINERS OF THE WORLD.
Cary, Alan L.
New York: Appleton Century, 1937. 144 p., 63 illus., 60 silhouettes .. more
Price: $65.00
THE TALL SHIPS PASS.
Derby, W.L.A.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. 415 p., 96 full-page sepia photos, thick quarto. .. more
Price: $175.00
SHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND THEIR SPONSORS.
Benham, Edith Wallace
Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1913-1991. 5 volumes, 157 illus. .. more
Price: $435.00
CLYDE PLEASURE STEAMERS.
Anonymous
Glasgow: Hedderwock, n.d. (1930's). light wear to wrappers with light rubbing along edges, oblong octavo, .. more
Price: $75.00
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE IRONCLAD WARSHIP.
Baxter, James Phinney
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1933. 398 p., 7 illus., faded spine, top edge gilt.. .. more
Price: $135.00
THE YOUNG SEA OFFICERS SHEET ANCHOR.
Lever, Darcy
New York: Sweetman, 1963. 126 p., 604 text figures .. more
Price: $70.00
ROYAL YACHTS.
Gavin, C.M.
London: Rich & Cowan, 1932. 338 p., 15 color plates, 94 halftone illus., an especially fine copy. quarto. .. more
Price: $680.00
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N., F.R.S., CIRCUMNAVIGATOR.
Mitchell Library
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968.. 172 p. .. more
Price: $45.00
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