Maritime America: Art and Artifacts from America's Great Nautical Collections
NY: Balsam Press/Abrams, 1988. Hardcover. Navy cloth. 255 pp. 18 bw, 214 color plates. VG/VG. Item #8582
ISBN: 0810915278
This is the most comprehensive volume of America's maritime art and artifacts from 13 premier collections of restored vessels, historic buildings, paintings, ship's carvings, scrimshaw, ship models, etc. Collections featured (by their own curators) include Calvert Maritime Museum, Galveston Historical Foundation, Kendall Whaling Museum, Manitowoc Maritime Museum, Mariners' Museum, Mystic Seaport Museum, North Carolina Maritime Museum, Peabody Museum of Salem, Philadelphia Maritime Museum, Rockport Apprenticeship, South Street Seaport Museum, Thousand Islands Shipyard Museum, and Woodward Riverboat Museum. Includes a list of plates and notes on the illustrations, additional American maritime collections, and an index.
Price: $29.97