Edward Burgess.

American and English Yachts; Illustrating and Describing the Most Famous Yachts Now Sailing in American and English Waters with a Treatise upon Yachts and Yachting

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First edition. Full Leather. 28 x 25 cm. Quarto. Bound in impressed morocco with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Gilt foredges. There is extensive rubbing to the boards. Comsists of 14 pages text on yachts and yachting followed by 50 full page photogravure plates with 1 page description of each ship shown. Occassional foxing throughout the text and plates. The weight of the book has caused a crack to the rear gutter. Good. Item #53511

Price: $1,500.00