Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake
Philadelphia, PA: Franklin Press, 1909. 1st Edition. 8vo. Very Good. Item #17851
A beautifully-rustic 1909 1st edition of this influential yachting work which spurred the explosion of Chesapeake Bay pleasure yachting.
Rebound in sage cloth with a plain brown paper spine. 276pp. Large fold-out map of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays at rear. profusely illustrated with historic black and white photographs of Eastern Shore towns, landmarks and yachting scenes.
One of the iconic and most influential of Chesapeake Bay yachting works, and the first to promote pleasure boating as a pastime on the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, which had previously been used mainly as water highways for commercial and residential transportation over the previous 250 years.
The Barries took many photographs and the scenes depicted here include regional historic towns, such as Oxford, St. Michaels, Solomon's Island, and Annapolis. Photographs of some of the region's historic buildings are also included, such as the Goldsborough House near Oxford, a run of small fishermen's houses in St Michaels, The Corinthian Yacht Club in Philadelphia, where the Barries were members, Tilip Hill, near Annapolis, the historic Wye Plantation in Talbot County, where Frederick Douglass was once a slave, and many others.
Square tight binding. Clean interior. Mild rubbing, soiling and edge wear to binding, with some age toning around the edges. The spine strip is its own piece on this rebind, separated, apparently intentionally, from both boards. Deckled edges, with a few leaves unopened at top. Fold-out map with a short one-inch closed tear along gutter edge near centerfold.
Presents handsomely in a clear archival mylar dust jacket.
Overall a very nice, and certainly unique, copy of this scarce 1st Edition. Howes B-176, Pritchett, 35.
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