[Rarebooks] fs: Melbourne Smith, 3 portfolios of prints

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings All,

For your consideration:
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(No. 7488 )  Smith, Melbourne (Introduction by Robert H. Burgess). SAILING
VESSELS OF THE CHESAPEAKE: VOLUME ONE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL
WATERCRAFT COLLECTION - NINE ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHED PRINTS.
Annapolis: Admiralty Publishing House, Ltd., (1973). Card covers, Oblong
folio, [iv], 9 plates, Color lithographs. Very good.
      This fine collection of prints gives credence to the description of
the Chesapeake Bay as the 'cradle of American naval architecture.' Here are
the Virginia pilot boat "Swift," the Baltimore clipper "Experiment," the log
canoe "Margaret P. Hall," the bugeye "Lizzie J. Cox," the beloved skipjack
"Geneva May," and others. Melbourne Smith's paintings are known for their
historic and structural accuracy based on extensive research and experience,
and also for their fine artistic quality. The nine 16" x 12" prints are
reproduced to the highest standards on quality paper. They are interleaved
with protective tissue guards printed with descriptive text. Bound in stiff
paper covers with cloth reinforced spine. A few external rubs and shallow
corner bumps, but no significant wear to interior. Original publisher's
brochure and order form for framed prints laid in. Uncommon.    $95.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7488.jpg
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(No. 7490 )  Smith, Melbourne (prints) and Thomas C. Gillmer (text)
(Introduction by Dr. Vernon D. Tate). BRIGS AND SLOOPS OF THE AMERICAN NAVY:
VOLUME NUMBER THREE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL WATERCRAFT
COLLECTION - TEN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHED PRINTS.
Annapolis: Admiralty Publishing House, Ltd., (1973). Card covers, Oblong
folio, [xviii], 10 plates, Color lithographs. Very good.
      The excellence of American naval architecture in the first half of the
19th century is on display in this superb collection of color plates,
including the brigs "Oneida" (1803), "Spark" (1814), "Porpoise" (1836),
"Truxtun" (1842), the sloops "Wasp" (1806), "Boston" (1825), "Levant"
(1838), and others. Melbourne Smith's paintings are known for their historic
and structural accuracy based on extensive research and experience, and also
for their fine artistic quality. The ten 16" x 12" prints are reproduced to
the highest standards on quality paper. They are interleaved with protective
tissue guards on which historical and descriptive text regarding each vessel
is printed. Bound in stiff paper covers with cloth reinforced spine. A few
external rubs and shallow corner bumps, but no significant wear to interior.
Original publisher's brochure and order form for framed prints laid in.
Uncommon.    $95.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7490.jpg
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(No. 7489 )  Smith, Melbourne (prints) and Thomas C. Gillmer (text)
(Introduction by Robert G. Albion). SHIPS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: VOLUME
NUMBER TWO FROM THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL WATERCRAFT COLLECTION - NINE
ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHED PRINTS.
Annapolis: Admiralty Publishing House, Ltd., (1973). Card covers, Oblong
folio, [xvii], 9 plates, Color lithographs. Very good.
      Captures the diverse rigs and types of merchant and naval craft, large
and small, in which the 13 original colonies revolted against the British
crown. Included in this portfolio are the brigantine "Peggy Stewart," which
was burned in Annapolis harbor in a southern version of the Boston Tea
Party, John Paul Jones's famous ship "Bonhomme Richard," the first naval
schooner "Hannah," the frigate "Raleigh," Washington's cutter "Lee," and
others. Melbourne Smith's paintings are known for their historic and
structural accuracy based on extensive research and experience, and also for
their fine artistic quality. The nine 16" x 12" prints are reproduced to the
highest standards on quality paper. They are interleaved with protective
tissue guards on which historical and descriptive text regarding each vessel
is printed. Bound in stiff paper covers with cloth reinforced spine. A few
external rubs and shallow corner bumps, but no significant wear to interior.
Original publisher's brochure and order form for framed prints laid in.
Uncommon.    $95.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/7489.jpg

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