Item #158286 THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SAILING NAVY. Howard I. Chapelle.

THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SAILING NAVY.

The ships and their development. 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 #158286

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