American Steam Vessels

Samuel Ward Stanton

New York: Smith & Stanton, 1895.

Oblong quarto, 21 x 30 cm. [11] 498pp. Original blue cloth. Wear to boards, fading to gilt title and ship vignette. Shaken, hinges cracked. Front flyleaf loose. Chipping and small tears to margins of a few pages. Corner of title page lacking. Occasional marginal soiling. Stanton reproduced the older vessels from reliable sources--early prints, lithographs, drawings and paintings--and the later ones from photographs, plans, sketches, etc.

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