[Rarebooks] fs: Early Chesapeake Bay pleasure sailing title...

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 7197 )  Barrie, Robert and George Barrie, Jr. CRUISES, MAINLY IN THE 
BAY OF THE CHESAPEAKE.
Philadelphia: Franklin Press, 1909. First Edition, Full cloth, Octavo, [x], 
276 pages, black & white photographic plates. Very good, No dust jacket.
      A Chesapeake Bay classic. The first book to draw significant attention 
to the Bay as ideally suited for pleasure boating. The Barrie brothers were 
members of the Corinthian Yacht Club in Philadelphia, and made their first 
cruise the Bay in 1897 by way of the C&D Canal, just at the beginning of the 
reign of the skipjack among Chesapeake Bay workboats. There were also 
numerous other workboats plying the Bay's waters then, but George Barrie 
later recalled that "Yachts in those days were almost as scarce as hen's 
teeth." (in Burgess, "This was Chesapeake Bay.") The book is written in a 
charmingly readable style and does not confine itself to scenes on the water 
but includes many interesting vignettes of Annapolis, Oxford, St. Michael's, 
activity around the boatyards, etc. Nicely illustrated with dozens of 
photographic plates depicting the native sailing craft as well as scenes in 
the sleepy shore towns and boatyards (note: the illustrations in the later 
Bryn Mawr editions are rather inferior to the original plates herein). 
Fold-out map of the Bay at rear. HOWES #B-176; TOY #1023; PRATT-EASTERN 
SHORE #35; MORRIS & HOWLAND p. 11. This copy has been nicely rebound in 
maroon cloth over boards some time ago. Gilt spine title, top edge gilt. 
Slight rubs to extremities, mild browning to spine. Fold-out map has a short 
tissue-repaired tear at lower attachment. All in all a very nice copy of 
this uncommon source on early Chesapeake pleasure boating....... $250.00
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