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Fleischmanns, Purple Mountain Press, [, 1988. Softcover. Front cover partially sun-faded; otherwise very good condition. ]. 50p. Illus. Quarto.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First Edition. Printed slip tipped to front endpaper: "With the Compliments of the Author." Then, signed in ink by Verplanck. An historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the 19th century, with a record of their names, together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North River sailing masters. William Edward Verplanck was a scion of the famous New York Verplanck family, which traces its history back to the New Netherlands Colony (now New York & New Jersey) from Holland. The Verplancks became quite prosperous and built a mansion on Wall Street in Manhattan. Around 1730, a colonial-style fieldstone house was built at Fishkill Landing on the Rombout Patent land on the Hudson River. Collyer was a riverboat captain from 1899 until his death in 1942, He cowrote "The Sloops of the Hudson"- a memoir and history of the years when sailboats were the primary means of getting up and down the river. An exhaustive and complete work that drew on Collyer's… Leer más