Original drawings for Men Against the Rule : three comparative diagrams illustrating the evolution of yacht design: Puritan - Reliance, Reliance - Enterprise, and Puritan - Enterprise

by Charles Poor

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Published in Men Against the Rule. A Century of Progress in Yacht Design, 1937, at pp. 121, 127, 131. Pen and ink with light blue wash, titled in pencil, marked for reproduction. Two drawings 14 x 18 inches, the third 16 x 15-1/2 inches. Some soiling at outer edges. Fine. Siegel p. 219. Item #237214 Poor was professor of astronomy and celestial mechanics at Columbia University, and author of works on astronomy

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