With a solidly detailed text and 282 pictures in color and black and white, this book provides the connoisseur of marine lore and antique objects with the very best guide to this vast area of collecting. This comprehensive volume includes all the categories of the fine and decorative arts, along with utilitarian objects, to be found in the world's great museums and in antique shops marine paintings, photographs and prints, posters and sailing cards, navigation instruments, maps, books on marine sciences and arts, uniforms, arms, wood carvings, scrimshaw, model boats, toys, cabin furniture, porcelains, silver, chests, armoires, lanterns, and many others. Illustrations of these items have been drawn from outstanding collections throughout the world, principally in the U.S., France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Scandinavian countries, and The Netherlands.
