The America's Cup along with nineteen books related to sailing
lot includes nineteen volumes: 1. American and English Yachts: Illustrating and Describing the Most Famous Yachts Now Sailing in American and English Waters. Edward Burgess. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. first edition. oblong folio. original worn brown morocco with gilt stamped titles to covers and spine. illustrated with fifty full-page photogravure plates of yachts from the original negatives of N. L. Stebbins, the noted American marine photographer, along with technical specs for each throughout. considerable wear and rubbing to edges. 2 . The America's Cup. Coffin, Captain Roland. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons,1885. viii, 155 pp. b/w plates. in yellow wraps; housed in custom clamshell box. 3. The Lawson History of America's Cup. Boston: Privately Printed by Thomas Lawson, 1902. first edition. 402pp. limited to 3000 copies, this being # 402. bound in heavy cream buckram with gilt stamped decor and titles to covers and spine. illustrated throughout. in worn slipcase. 4. A Testimonial to Charles J. Paine and Edward Burgess, from the City of Boston, for their successful defence of The America's Cup. Boston: Rockwell, 1887. Printed by order of the City Council.; photogravures and technical specs of the sloops throughout; bound in brown buckram with gilt stamping to covers and titles to spine. 4to. 159pp. first edition. 5. The Yacht America. Winfield Thompson; William Stephens; William Swain. Boston: Charles E. Lauriat, 1925. first edition. signed by William Swain on half title page. bound in blue buckram with gilt titles to spine. near fine. 6. Millions for Defence: A Pictorial History of the Races for the America's Cup. Herbert L. Stone Alfred F. Loomis. NY: The Derrydale Press, 1934. limited to 950 copies, this being #147. bound in pictorial blue buckram with the crossed burgees of the N.Y.Y.C. and the R.Y.S. stamped in colors to cover. very good. 7. The Blue Ribbon of the Sea: Authentic history of the America's Cup from 1851 to the present day. George Bleekman; Parker Newton. London, NY., Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, 1889. first edition. oblong 8vo. 8. Men Against the Rule: A Century of Progress in Yacht Design Charles Lane Poor. NY: The Derrydale Press, 1937. limited to 950 copies, this being # 448. bound in blue buckram over blue cloth boards. together with six others. 9. Log of the Columbia, Season of 1899. Published by Printed for the Author by H. O. Houghton and Company [designed by Bruce Rogers], Cambridge, MA, 1900; privately-printed for Herbert C. Leeds; inscribed and dated (1901) by the author to Adrian Isilin. 4to. limited to 50 copies, this being # 14; bound in black buckram with pictorial label to cover. photogravure plate of the Columbia, printed on India paper, ruled in red. near fine. 10. This Was Seafaring: A Sea Chest of Salty Memories. Ralph W. Andrews; Harry A. Kirwin. Seattle: Superior Publishing, 1955. limited edition of 3000 copies, this being #1647; signed by Ralph Anderson. in dustjacket and slipcase. near fine. 11. Enterprise: The Story of the Defense of the America's Cup in 1930. Harold S. Vanderbilt. NY: Scribner's Sons, 1931. first edition. 4to. bound in navy blue buckram with pictorial gilt stamped covers and titles to spine. 12. The Fore-and-Aft in America. E.P. Morris. New Haven: Yale, 1927. first edition limited to 1000 copies. 4to. bound in blue buckram with gilt titles to spine, in dust jacket. together with seven others.

Provenance:
The Collection of Fritz & Lucy Jewett, San Francisco, California.