[Rarebooks] FS: Portraits of Salem Shipmasters

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Foote, Henry Wilder, et al. "Catalogue of Portraits in the Essex
Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. Covering Three Centuries"

Salem; The Essex Institute: 1936.

The catalog of more than 400 portraits owned by the Essex Institute, the
center of seafaring on the north coast of Massachusetts in the 18th and
19th centuries. Merchants, shipmasters and other well-to-do persons and
public officials are all well represented, as is the work of most of the
important portrait artists in the area.

Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", xii + 306 pages, many b/w plates; a little light
cover rubbing, but overall a very nice, bright copy. [31009] $275.00

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