THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SAILING NAVY: The ships and their development

by Howard I. Chapelle

A$50 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

Pp. xxii+ 3 -558, coloured frontispiece, 16 black & white plates, numerous text figures & plans, appendix, index; cr. 4to; qr. beige cloth, navy papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & navy, small section of bottom edge frayed near lower fore-corner of upper board; price-clipped dust wrapper, worn, with chips at head and tail of backstrip and a large chipped tear across top portion of front panel; Bonanza Books, New York, n.d. c.196- . *First published in 1949. Item

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