The Down Easters: American Deep-water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
de Basil Lubbock
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated. Large octavo in royal blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Reproduction antique map endpapers. xvi+ 285 pp. with index, extensive appendix register of American-built ships 1853-1902;, appendix listing of Searsport captains and names of their ships; appendix of "Young America" list of passages under American flag; register of foreign-built American ships; appendix "Paul Jones, an Early Down Easter". Produsely illustrated with full page photographic plates of persons, shipd, on board activities. A tight, bright copy, some marginal light foxing outer edge of some leaves. Handsome illustrated history of American square-rigged sailing ships-- the "Down Easters"---that were used to sail around Cape Horn over the 60-year period 1869 to 1929. Among the areas covered are the San Francisco grain trade, "Bully Captains, Bucko Mates , and Cape Horn Shellbacks", Clippers in the Cape Horn Trade; individual chapters on Down Easters of the 1870s, 80s, 90s; and the last of the American square riggers.
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- Librería
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- E29776
- Título
- The Down Easters: American Deep-water Sailing Ships 1869-1929
- Autor
- Basil Lubbock
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Charles E. Lauriat
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1929
- Palabras clave
- nautical, clipper ships. shipping, new england, downeaster, merchant marine, cape horn, sailors,
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Bordentown, New Jersey
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