1855 MARITIME SAILING Nautical Sea Ocean Civil War Travel Explore Underhill
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RARE, ORIGINAL, 1855 EDITION OF: “THE KEDGE- ANCHOR; OR, YOUNG SAILORS\' ASSISTANT. APPERTAINING TO THE PRACTICAL EVOLUTIONS OF MODERN SEAMANSHIP, RIGGING, KNOTTING, SPLICING, BLOCKS, PURCHASES, RUNNING-RIGGING, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, APPLICABLE TO SHIPS OF WAR AND OTHERS. ILLUSTRATED WITH SEVENTY ENGRAVINGS. ALSO, TABLES OF RIGGING, SPARS, SAILS, BLOCKS, CANVASS, CORDAGE, CHAIN AND HEMP CABLES, HAWSERS, &c. &c. RELATIVE TO EVERY CLASS OF VESSELS.”
This American classic was authored by William Brady, Sailing Master, United States Navy. Published by the Author, in New York, in 1855.
There is an inked signature on ffp of John F. Underhill, Oyster Bay, Long Island. This excellent treatise is housed in a handsome custom made slipcase. This is a black leather raised band spine with gilt lining, with black paper boards. It contains the title and year of publication. It also is titled, “John F. Underhill’s Copy.”
The first Underhill in America was Captain John Underhill (c1597-1672), an English military commander who accompanied John Winthrop to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. In 1637 he distinguished himself as a commander in the Pequot War, of which he wrote an account. The Dutch employed him in 1644 to fight the Algonquin peoples on Long Island. Underhill opposed Peter Stuyvesant and aided the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664. He is buried in the Underhill Burying Ground in Locust Valley, New York.
John Underhill\'s many descendants are represented by the Underhill Society of America, which was first founded in 1892 at Brooklyn, NY, by David Harris Underhill. It was officially incorporated in New York State in 1903 where annual meetings have been held ever since, with the exception of a brief hiatus in the 1940\'s. The Society published an Annual Report from 1893 through 1937, an annual Bulletin since 1954, and a semi-annual newsletter, \"News and Views\", since 1970. Since 1981 the headquarters of the Underhill Society, with a museum and library, is located in the Townsend Society\'s House, Oyster Bay, New York.
The Kedge-Anchor considered by Albion, “one of the most substantial and useful books on naval history.”
From the Sailor\'s Magazine.
From the New York Journal of Commerce.
In addition to many suggestions, which will prove valuable to every grade of seamen, it contains more thorough descriptions of the innumerable articles belonging to the various classes of vessels, than any other work ever published in this country; and is embellished with over seventy engravings, in illustration of the subjects treated of in its pages. The work is furnished with over one hundred pages of tables, which are valuable not only to the sea-faring man, but to all who are in any way interested in maritime pursuits.
1855 MARITIME SAILING Nautical Sea Ocean Civil War Travel Explore Underhill:
$66.00