Author: BUNTING, WILLIAM HENRY
Title: Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops the Marine Photographs of N.L. Stebbins Taken from 1884 to 1907
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1974. Hardcover. ISBN: 039519895X. Illustrated by N. L. Stebbins. B&W Photographs; 11 x 9; 126 pages; Oblong shaped hard cover is blue with black spine with silver lettering. Boards have light sunning, bumping, rubbing. DJ has bumping, sunning, rubbing and light creasing along edges, plus 1" closed tear at bottom of front; price clipped front flap. In a mylar cover. Tan end pages. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with 55+ b/w photographs, most of them full page sized. "Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins ( 1847 - 1922) was a noted American marine photographer, whose surviving photographs document an important era in the development of American maritime activities, as sweeping technological and social change revolutionized activity on the water, in military, commercial and leisure spheres....Over his working career as a commercial photographer (from 1884 to 1922) , he took approximately 25,000 images. Of these, about 60% were of marine subjects (the majority of those being of leisure activities, but many are of military and commercial scenes, a valuable record for historians) ". Bibliography; notes;. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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