11-18-201811-18-2018
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
3176BBoston
November 18, 2018 11:00 AMCalender
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Cozzens, Frederic S. (1846-1928) American Yachts, a Series of Water-Color Sketches.

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$13,530$11,000
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 3176BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2018 11:00AM

Description:

Cozzens, Frederic S. (1846-1928) American Yachts, a Series of Water-Color Sketches. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1884]. Oversized portfolio, limited edition artist's proof, copy number 98; consisting of a loose title page and twenty-seven chromolithographic plates, twenty-six are views of yachts, the other shows flags, each individually mounted and matted and signed in pencil by Cozzens on the mat, with the following defects: plate xiv, Moonlight on Nantucket Shoals lacking the signed mat, trimmed down, with a large chip to the mount with loss (chip present); plate xvi, A Stern Chase and a Long One, broken in half vertically at the center, mounted, some infilling to the central break; boards present but quite worn, title chipped with marginal loss and foxing, 28 x 21 3/4 in.; accompanied by the octavo text volume: J.D. Jerrold Kelley's American Yachts, their Clubs and Races, New York: Scribner's, 1884, half morocco, 7 1/2 x 5 in.; [together with] a modern facsimile of the text volume.
Estimate $10,000-15,000


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Keywords

Charles Scribner, D. Jerrold Kelley