More Maritime Books 1964 and 1968. These two maritime books are titled “Figureheads & Ship Carvings at Mystic Seaport” and “The Tragic History of the Sea”. “Figureheads & Ship Carvings at Mystic Seaport” was written by Edouard A. Stackpole, curator at the Marine Historical Association in Connecticut, it is publication No. 43 and was published by the Marine Historical Association in 1964, the copyright page is dated 1964, so it’s a first edition as well (the dates on the copyright page and tile page match), and it’s a limited edition - only 10,000 copies were ever printed. The book has black lettering on the spine and front cover, blank endpapers, a half-title, a colored frontispiece of a figurehead from the clipper ship Donald Mckay, the title page, a Longfellow poem after the copyright page, one leaf about Mystic Seaport, another poem, three pages of Contents, two pages about the figureheads and carvings at the museum, 134 pages of text and illustrations, the limitation page is at the end, and there are full-paged close-up details of the figureheads and carvings. Topics include American figureheads, British figureheads, period pieces, busts and small figures, billetheads and fiddleheads, various eagles, gangway boards, stern-boards, and more. The book measures 9 7/8 x 7 in, wide, with a tight binding and clean pages and text, the figureheads are eye-catching, with just faint toning on the spine and edges of the front cover, and it’s a valuable resource for naval historians and those who have a flair for the old-time sea. The complete title of the second maritime book is “Further Selections From The Tragic History Of The Sea 1559 - 1565”, translated and edited from the original Portuguese by C. R. Boxer, the book contains eye-witness accounts of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indian Aguia and Garca (1559), the Sao Paulo (1561), and the misadventures of the Brazilian ship Santo Antonio (1565), it was published by the Hakluyt Society in 1968 and printed at the University Press in Cambridge [Mass.] The book has pale blue boards, with gilt lettering that includes the title, “Series II, Vol. CXXXII” and “1967” on the spine, a gilt image of the Victoria on the front cover, blank endpapers, a half-title which says the book was issued for 1967, one page listing the officers of the Hakluyt Society, a frontis portrait of Francisco Barreto, the title page, the copyright page dated 1968, a one-page Preface and an Acknowledgment page, one page of Contents, two pages listing the Illustrations and Maps, a page explaining the Abbreviations in the book, 157 pages of text, a Bibliography that runs from 158 to page 164, an Index that ends at 170, and three fold-out maps. This book is a companion book to a work published by the Hakluyt Society in 1959 about other shipwrecks that occurred between 1590 and 1622; they all come from the original accounts of the History Tragico-Maritima that were edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito in Lisbon in 1735 to 1736, and the preface says three leaders came out as heroes in the two volumes: Francisco Baretto, Jorge d’Albuquerque Coelho, and Nuno Velho Pereira. The book is 8vo. and measures 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in wide, with a tight binding and clean pages and text, the maps and plates are very clean, the spine has faded a bit, and there are shadows along the edges of the spine and on the back cover from other books that were placed next to this one, and together, the two books provide a good background to maritime history and the lore of the sea. #160 #1618