THE SLOOPS OF THE HUDSON: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PACKET AND MARKET SLOOPS OF THE LAST CENTURY, WITH A RECORD OF THEIR NAMES, TOGETHER WITH PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF CERTAIN OF THE NOTABLE NORTH RIVER SAILING MASTERS.
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Illustrated. First Edition. Printed slip tipped to front endpaper: “With the Compliments of the Author.” Then, signed in ink by Verplanck. An historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the 19th century, with a record of their names, together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North River sailing masters. William Edward Verplanck was a scion of the famous New York Verplanck family, which traces its history back to the New Netherlands Colony (now New York & New Jersey) from Holland. The Verplancks became quite prosperous and built a mansion on Wall Street in Manhattan. Around 1730, a colonial-style fieldstone house was built at Fishkill Landing on the Rombout Patent land on the Hudson River. Collyer was a riverboat captain from 1899 until his death in 1942, He cowrote “The Sloops of the Hudson”- a memoir and history of the years when sailboats were the primary means of getting up and down the river. An exhaustive and complete work that drew on Collyer's background in a river-faring family, it is today considered the definitive history of that era and its boats. A scarce book, seldom found in nice condition. Small 8vo., decorative blue cloth, stamped in white; 171 pages. In a home-made white paper dust jacket with tipped-on titles. Item #58227
Good (some wear & browning covers with white stamping mostly worn away; contents clean & tight with small crease front blank page & ink name of "Edward G. Brownlee" on two pages).
Price: $85.00