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The Yachtsman's Album.: Containing portraits of two hundred and forty yachts, representing all classes. Reproduced from photographs, with a descriptive index.
by STEBBINS, Nathaniel Livermore
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- Hardcover
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston: N. L. Stebbins,, 1896. The work of a pioneering maritime photographer in the Golden Age of American yacht building First and only edition of this attractive and detailed publication. "The indexes and leaves of plates are divided into two parts, the first encompassing steam yachts, and the second, sailing yachts... For each yacht the indexes give owner, length on the water line, beam, draft, designer, builder, and year built (Toy)"; rare, just five copies located by WorldCat, no appearances at auction. Provenance: from the library of Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee (1881-1928), with a library annotation in pencil on the verso of the title page: "gift, F. B. C. Bradlee, F. 29, 1928, 797.6 S81". Bradlee was a collector of books and ephemera relating to steamships and railroads; and the majority of his collection is now held at the Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Also, with the bookplate of the Library of the Essex Institute noting the bequest of Bradlee and the Institute's blind stamp on the title page. Landscape octavo (170 x 214 mm). Publisher's brown hard-grain morocco, title gilt on front cover, sepia patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. With 60 collotype plates showing 4 images on each plate. A little rubbed and scuffed, sometime neatly refurbished, inner hinges strengthened with cloth, front flyleaf with minor rumpling and loss to top right corner, endpapers with edges repaired, internally clean. A very good copy. Morris & Howland, p. 131; Toy 331.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 158893
- Title
- The Yachtsman's Album.
- Author
- STEBBINS, Nathaniel Livermore
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston: N. L. Stebbins,
- Date Published
- 1896
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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