"There is no type of vessel that has so much romantic and historical interest to Americans as that commonly called the Baltimore Clipper."

CHAPELLE, HOWARD IRVING. THE BALTIMORE CLIPPER: ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT. Salem: The Marine Research Society, 1930. 4to. Original navy blue morocco-grained cloth. Half-title. xii, 192, [i] (ad) pages. Frontispiece and thirty-five plates, forty-eight ship plans (most full-page) and numerous other illustrations in the text. Minor shelf wear, the usual light foxing throughout. Otherwise, a fine copy.

FIRST EDITION. Naval historian Howard Chapelle traces the origin, use and design of the graceful Baltimore Clipper in his first book. "There is no type of vessel that has so much romantic and historical interest to Americans as that commonly called the Baltimore Clipper" (p. 3), yet little had been written about the ship so instrumental to early American privateering, smuggling and commercial trade before Chapelle's definitive study in The Baltimore Clipper. The forty-eight ship plans, many showing details of construction, are of particular historical value. Howes C288. BT000047.

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