[Rarebooks] fs: Marine Paintings in the Peabody Museum (both volumes)

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(No. 5763 )  Brewington, M[arion]. V[ernon]. and Dorothy Brewington. MARINE 
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS IN THE PEABODY MUSEUM (REVISED EDITION).
Salem: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1981 (1968). Limited edition, Full cloth, 
Quarto, xviii, 535 pages, color and black and white plates. Very Good in a 
Very Good Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      One of 1, 600 copies in this corrected second edition, cataloging 
every marine picture received by the museum between 1799 and 1966. Most 
major marine artists are represented, as well as nearly every type of 
sailing craft and steamship. This revised edition retains the format and 
presentation of the original edition, but corrects certain errors, 
omissions, and incorrect attributions. Where they occur these are denoted by 
an asterisk next to the entry, and there is a complete list of changes from 
the first edition included at rear. Truly an outstanding collection. Bound 
in green cloth over boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. A few minor 
extremity rubs, slight foxing to top edge of textblock. Jacket has a few 
shallow edge wrinkles, a closed 1 cm tear at top edge of front panel, and a 
narrow band of slight sun fading along top and fore edge of front panel. 
$100.00
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(No. 2564 )  Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster. MORE MARINE PAINTINGS AND 
DRAWINGS IN THE PEABODY MUSEUM.
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1979. First printing, Full cloth, Quarto, xii, 166 
pages, color and black & white prints. Very Good in a Near Fine Dust Jacket, 
Jacket in Mylar protector.
      One of a limited edition of 3,000 copies. Catalogue of the accessions 
received by the museum between 1967 and 1977. Follows the same numbering 
scheme used in the earlier landmark catalogue of the collection by Marion 
and Dorothy Brewington, "Marine Paintings and  Drawings in the Peabody 
Museum." A second section in the present work includes illustrated logbooks 
in the museum's collection, and the third section contains the principal 
corrections, amendments, etc., to the earlier catalogue by the Brewingtons. 
Laid in is a pamphlet on the fishing schooner L. A. Dunton at Mystic 
Seaport. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine titled in gilt. Minor 
wear to binding extremities, foxing to top edge of textblock with milder 
foxing to top edge and gutter of rear endpapers. Binding sound.    $75.00
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