The Old Merchant Marine, A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
London: Yale University, 1919. Illustrated with eleven gravure plates. Abraham Lincoln edition: Volume 36 of The Chronicles of America Series, Allen Johnson, Editor. 8vo. 8-1/16" x 5-1/4". Lovely green cloth covered boards decorated in gold and white. 214 pp. including index. Extensive bibliography. Decorated title page printed in blue and black. Top edge gilt. Fine.
Affixed to free front endpaper is the bookplate of William Russell Grace, Jr. (1878-1943) son of the founder of the W. R. Grace Co., originally established in 1854 in Peru as a cargo shipping company.
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