Large 4to. 216 pp. plus (22) pp. adverts. Color, tinted litho and b/w line ills.
1853 · New York
by Stuart, Charles.
New York: Charles B. Norton, Irving House, 1853. Large 4to. 216 pp. plus (22) pp. adverts. Color, tinted litho and b/w line ills. . This is the second edition of Stuart's history of "our National Steam Marine," identical to the first. It is one of the great books on the steamships of mid-19th century America, with 36 color, tinted, and line lithos of steamships and their powerplants. The frontispiece is a chromolitho of the "Powhatan," which even then was accompanying Perry's fleet to Japan. Portraits of vessels are in sepia tinted lithos, and the diagrams of powerplants in b/w. Scattered foxing throughout, but very little affecting the plates. Bound in original half crimson morocco with gilt lettering over boards. spine ends and corners scuffed.
(Inventory #: 42187)