The Sailing Ships of New England 1607-1907.

ROBINSON, John and George Francis Dow.

Item Number: 130219

Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1922.

First edition of Robinson and Dow’s profusely illustrated work on the sailing ships of New England. Large octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled leather, marbled endpapers, frontispiece in color, illustrated. In fine condition.

This volume, the initial publication of the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts, contains a considerable collection of pictorial representations of America sailing vessels from several museums and private collections, many of which were reproduced here for the first time.