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From decorative ironwork and antique weapons to early planes and ocean liners—handsome, informative books that make great gifts!
Recommendations...
 Picture History of American Passenger Ships
by William H., Jr. Miller
More than 100 ships documented, including Leviathan, America, Independence, President Polk, and United States. Detailed captions list tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load. Bibliography. Index. Approximately 200 photographs.
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 America’s Lighthouses: An Illustrated History
by Francis Ross Holland, Jr.
Profusely illustrated fact-filled survey of American lighthouses since 1716. Over 200 stations — East, Gulf, and West coasts, Great Lakes, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Mississippi and St. Lawrence Rivers.
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| |  Picture History of the SS United States
by William H., Jr. Miller
159 rare photos depict stages in ship's construction and its christening, intimate views of modern lounges, staterooms, dining rooms, promenade and pool, theaters, ballroom, and play decks. Captions. 159 black-and-white photos.
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 A Pictorial Encyclopedia of Decorative Ironwork: Twelfth Through Eighteenth Centuries
by Otto Hoever
Over 450 black-and-white photos, royalty-free, show great ironwork from all over Europe — doors, gates, railings, grilles, lanterns, candelabra, firedogs, chandeliers, much more.
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| |  The Kedge Anchor; or, Young Sailors' Assistant
by William Brady
Mid-19th-century bible of U.S. sailors; no-nonsense text gives instructions for knotting and rigging, blacking the guns, stationing the crew, dealing with dire emergencies, much more. 70 rare engravings, glossary, 100 pages of useful tables.
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