Item #:40287
Merchant Sail. Volumes IV and V.
Fairburn, William Armstrong.
Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, ( (1945 -1955))), Center Lovell, ME
viii, pp.2159 - 2738, and xi, pp 2739 - 3600.
Price: $100
Merchant Sail. Volumes IV and V.
Fairburn, William Armstrong.
Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, ( (1945 -1955))), Center Lovell, ME
viii, pp.2159 - 2738, and xi, pp 2739 - 3600.
Price: $100
These are first editions of the final two text volumes of Fairburn’s encyclopedic work on merchant sail. Vol IV contains material on “..Merchant sail in the China, Australia, Manila, and India trades, development of the schooner rig and its use in coastwise service, last days of deep-sea sail.” Volume V contains “United States wood shipbuilders and shipbuilding centers during the days of the young republic and throughout the nineteenth century, with the production of sailing vessels, including packets, clippers, and down easters.” Both in fine condition. Two volumes
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