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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition heavy oversized (folio, over 12 inches tall) blue linen boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Plate List; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Bibliography; Index and Contributors. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Bill Koch's inspired collection of maritime paintings, artifacts, and models exudes as much bravado as the history they represent - and the owner who collected them! From the broadside frigate battles that first brought the U.S. Navy international stature, to the America's Cup races that fostered experiments in naval architecture and competitive racing tactics, the collection evokes the whole growth of American fortitude on the seas. Alan Granby, Janice Hyland, and their fellow contributors ably explore the epochal events and heroic figures that inspired the creation of these celebrated objects and paintings." - Daniel Finamore, Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History, Peabody Essex Museum, from the inner front jacket flap. "As a sailor and a collector, Bill Koch has always been a maverick. Under his command, a campaign based on science surprised the world in 1992 by capturing the America's Cup. And as a highly personal collector, he has brought together a collection of masterworks that speak profoundly of his love of art and his love of the sea and all of its traditions, and his respect for and understanding of maritime tradition. Mr. Koch's collection includes maritime subjects by master artists such as Winslow Homer, Frederick Remington, Claude Monet, Raoul Dufy, and Ferdinando Botero, and brilliant marine canvases by Fitz Henry Lane, Robert Salmon, James E. Buttersworth, among others. Over the past decades he has painstakingly amassed a definitive group of paintings and artifacts relating to his ancestor Captain James Lawrence of the War of 1812. His collection of models of America's Cup vessels - from the inception of the race in 1851 to the present day - is complete and unequalled, containing not only every boat that won the Cup but every boat that ever competed for it. In addition, he has acquired an unprecedented collection of campaign and shipboard furniture, maritime instruments, and nautical devices, materials that are seldom seen or documented and that provide an intimate and revealing look below decks. This collection, formed with the experienced knowledge of a sailor and the selective eye of a collector, is the mirror of a man who approaches art with both reverence and a clear sense of what he likes. It is personal, eclectic, and provocative. It will provide weeks of pleasure to any serious antique collector, art lover, or blue-blooded sailor." - from the inner front jacket flap.