Americas cup (9 Ergebnisse)

1st Ed. (6), 90 PP with maps and plans, and 49 colour photos. Fp: Photo of the America's Cup. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5.

1st Ed. (6), 90 PP with maps & plans, and 49 colour photos, plus large folded chart (59 x 82 cms) Approaches to Fremantle "America's Cup Course 1987". Fp ( in colour): Photo of the America's Cup. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 28.5 x 21.5.

1st Ed. 45 PP with colour illustrations (badges, burgees, national flags,maps, plans, sketches and photos). Inside front cover: The Cup. Inside back cover: Rolly Tasker's America's Cup Museum. Pictorial boards. Includes 50 stamps in respective windows. Fine. 25.5 x 17.5.

large format 119 page colour illustrated programme. a little creasing to corners and mark from removal of an adhesive label, otherwise in very good condition. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].

Full-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Copyright date 1888, second edition, first printing. Full leather over boards with gilt lettering and design on the front, spine and on the back, with beveled edges front and back boards. Marbled inside covers with gilt dentelles borders front and back. All page edges Gilt. Frontis is of the Cup and 12 plates, nine of them heliogravures of the yachts; fine, bright, copying, a presentation, binding a full Brown, Morocco leather, gilt, lettered in gilt on Opera cover in spine, gilt seal of the city of Boston on the back, gilt paneled spine and borders. The supply of the 1887 edition, having been quickly exhausted, the mayor ordered 1680 additional copies printed, 24 presentation to the city Council. A memorial volume. At the city's expense to commemorate the reception at Faneuil Hall for Charles J. Pain, owner and Edward Burgess, designer, of the Volunteer, Which Defeated the Scotch cutter, Thistle in the autumn of 1887.…

Zustand: Good. AMERICA'S CUP columbia designed by herreshoff for morgan 1899 USA. atlantis collection .

Commemorative broadside printed on crepe in black, red & blue, with central text panel announcing launch, within royal border of flags & crowns with the heads of the monarchs, challenger (& his wife?); somewhat creased at edges & along folds, some 'running' of colours, but generally a remarkable survival of an extremely ephemeral piece. 'Sir Thomas Lipton's new yacht, Shamrock IV, will be launched from Messrs. Camper & Nicholson's yard at Gosport. As she has been built with. a great deal of secrecy, little or nothing is known about her 'lines'.' In fact this first of four challengers designed and built by Charles E. Nicholson was nicknamed 'ugly duckling' for its unconventional appearance. The intervention of the Great War delayed Shamrock's challenge until 1920 when she won the first two races against New York Yacht Club defender, Resolute, but lost the remaining three and thereby the challenge. America's Cup racing Yachting Sailing.…

Broadsheet cartoon, 40.2 x 28 cm (sheet size), slight edge browning but in very good condition. Satirical cartoon by Charles Green Bush, a pioneer of the daily newspaper cartoon. Here, the two figures, Jonathan (Uncle Sam) and Sandy (the kilted Scotsman) tussle over the America's Cup. The two yachts Thistle (Scotland) and the defending American yacht Volunteer contested the seventh America's Cup in 1887. "Sandy" was vanquished. The note by Harper's Weekly (included in photocopy) opines: ".the genius of America stands impeturbed and undoubting, and .the genius of Scotland looks rather unpleasantly determined and competent.". Despite the loss, Thistle went on to a successful racing career, and was eventually sold to Kaiser Wilhelm II. The New York Yacht Club remained supreme as the holder of the America's Cup until 1983, when the Royal Perth Yacht Club's challenger, Australia II famously was the victor.…

Zustand: Otherwise very good condition. Tinted & hand colored lithograph of "The "America", which defeated 15 British yachts to bring the cup to the US, where it stayed for 132 years until Australia won it in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1983. This is the original engraving, not a later reprint. Image 13 3/4 x 11 1/2" on larger paper, original hand color, a little toned. Trimmed to within half an inch of the neat line and caption, laid down on period paper.…