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9" x 11 1/2", 530 pp., blue buckram cloth with gilt titling and ship silhouette to spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Number 298 of 750 numbered Limited Edition copies. In Fine condition, As New, in a Very Good or better dust jacket. See photo enlarged. Book is immaculate inside and out; jacket has some ruffling, wear, and small closed tears at the edges, with one 1cm triangle chip at the top of the spine; otherwise quite good. This is an enormous volume illustrating the breadth and depth of the marine art in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Salem. Close to 2,000 illustrations, hundreds of these full-page and two-to-a-page plates, about 60 of the full-page plates in glorious color. If your interest is in maritime paintings and drawings, this is a must-have volume for your library. Artists include Fitz Hugh Lane, James and John Bard, J. E. Buttersworth, Thomas Buttersworth, Michele Felice Corne, Fred S. Cozzens, many Chinese artists (of American ships), Clement Drew, J.B. Hildreth, Antonio [A.N.G.] Jacobsen, John F. Leavitt, Murdoch McPherson, Robert Salmon, William Pierce Stubbs, and hundreds of other identified and unidentified artists. Includes extensive index which has sections on identified vessels, a separate naval vessels list, artworks by location, and much more. N° de ref. del artículo 00077v
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