GROUP OF YACHTING BOOKS AND EPHEMERA
GROUP OF YACHTING BOOKS AND EPHEMERA 1) Atlantic Yacht Club membership handbook for 1887, with lists of officers, members, bylaws, etc. Includes several colored pages listing Club yachts and their respective burgees, and a fold-out chart of New York Bay showing racecourses from the Clubhouse to as far as Sandy Hook Light Ship. Leather binding. All edges gilt. 5.75" x 3.75". 2) Folding menu from a dinner honoring John S. Morgan in New York, April 18, 1889. Cover with hand-lettered "Capt. Joseph Elsworth" below a seascape. 5.25" x 4.5". 3) Copy of The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida by James McQuade of the New York Yacht Club. N.Y.: Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1885. Includes poems, sheet music and illustrations in text. Pictorial blue cloth binding. 8.75" x 6". 4) Journal for 1878 and 1879 voyages from New York to Cape Haitian[?] and back; New York to Porto Plata to Baracoa, Cuba and back; and New York to Nassau to Eleuthera and back. Pre-printed pages with handwritten inscriptions. Inside front cover inscribed "Schr David Carll Chas A. Hawkins Master" and with a sheet inscribed "Log Book of Schooner Martha [...] on her passage from New York to Philadel." taped down. Loose accounting spreadsheets tucked in at rear. Mottled boards with leather spine. 15" x 9.75". 5) Scrapbook with burgundy boards depicting an American-flagged yacht off a lighthouse and fish in the sea. Contains a small pencil sketch of a dory, yacht photographs, handwritten and typed letters, menus, invitations, newspaper clippings, a Master Mason certificate, etc., mostly dating from the 1880s through the early 1900s and pertaining to the Elsworth/Ellsworth family and the New York Yacht Club. Some items loose and some tipped-in. 12.5" x 10".
Condition
As found. Tears, toning, loose pages and covers, etc.The absence of a condition report does not imply an object is free of defects. All items may have normal signs of age and wear commensurate with their age; these issues will likely not be mentioned in the condition report. Please contact Eldred's before the auction with any condition questions. Questions about condition will not be answered after purchase. Condition reports are provided as a courtesy, and we are not responsible for any errors or omissions. Important note on frames: Frames are not guaranteed to be in the same condition as they are in the item photograph. Due to handling and shipping, many frames, especially antique ones, are prone to losses. If you have questions about the condition of a frame, please contact us prior to the auction.
GROUP OF YACHTING BOOKS AND EPHEMERA 1) Atlantic Yacht Club membership handbook for 1887, with lists of officers, members, bylaws, etc. Includes several colored pages listing Club yachts and their respective burgees, and a fold-out chart of New York Bay showing racecourses from the Clubhouse to as far as Sandy Hook Light Ship. Leather binding. All edges gilt. 5.75" x 3.75". 2) Folding menu from a dinner honoring John S. Morgan in New York, April 18, 1889. Cover with hand-lettered "Capt. Joseph Elsworth" below a seascape. 5.25" x 4.5". 3) Copy of The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida by James McQuade of the New York Yacht Club. N.Y.: Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1885. Includes poems, sheet music and illustrations in text. Pictorial blue cloth binding. 8.75" x 6". 4) Journal for 1878 and 1879 voyages from New York to Cape Haitian[?] and back; New York to Porto Plata to Baracoa, Cuba and back; and New York to Nassau to Eleuthera and back. Pre-printed pages with handwritten inscriptions. Inside front cover inscribed "Schr David Carll Chas A. Hawkins Master" and with a sheet inscribed "Log Book of Schooner Martha [...] on her passage from New York to Philadel." taped down. Loose accounting spreadsheets tucked in at rear. Mottled boards with leather spine. 15" x 9.75". 5) Scrapbook with burgundy boards depicting an American-flagged yacht off a lighthouse and fish in the sea. Contains a small pencil sketch of a dory, yacht photographs, handwritten and typed letters, menus, invitations, newspaper clippings, a Master Mason certificate, etc., mostly dating from the 1880s through the early 1900s and pertaining to the Elsworth/Ellsworth family and the New York Yacht Club. Some items loose and some tipped-in. 12.5" x 10".
Condition
As found. Tears, toning, loose pages and covers, etc.The absence of a condition report does not imply an object is free of defects. All items may have normal signs of age and wear commensurate with their age; these issues will likely not be mentioned in the condition report. Please contact Eldred's before the auction with any condition questions. Questions about condition will not be answered after purchase. Condition reports are provided as a courtesy, and we are not responsible for any errors or omissions. Important note on frames: Frames are not guaranteed to be in the same condition as they are in the item photograph. Due to handling and shipping, many frames, especially antique ones, are prone to losses. If you have questions about the condition of a frame, please contact us prior to the auction.
