The History of American Sailing Ships.

CHAPELLE, Howard I.

Item Number: 130590

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1935.

Finely bound example of Chapelle’s authoritative history of American sailing ships. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with drawings by the author, George C. Wales and Henry Rusk, pictorial title page. In near fine condition.

Chapelle's great history of American sailing ships includes comparative chapters on the Colonial Period of American ships and shipbuilding, Revolutionary War vessels, privateers, revenue cutters, merchant craft, American schooners, and sailing yachts.