[Rarebooks] fs: Early US Navy Brigs & Sloops, 10 original lithograph prints by Melbourne Smith

[Back Creek Books]

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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: 
TEN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHED PRINTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL 
WATERCRAFT COLLECTION BY MELBOURNE SMITH, VOLUME NUMBER THREE.
Annapolis: Admiralty Publishing House, Ltd., (1973). First printing, 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 
corner creases, rubs, and light stains to covers but no wear to the 
lithographs inside. Original publisher's brochure and order form for framed 
prints laid in. Uncommon.    $100.00
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