BOND, Henry (ca 1600-1678). The Boat Swaines Art, or the Complete Boat-Swaine. Wherein is shewed a true Proportion for the Masting, Yarding, and Rigging of any Ship, whose Length, Breadth, and Depth is known: with Rules for the Sizes, and Lengths, of all sorts of Rigging that belongs to any Ship... London: William Godbid for William Fisher 1664.
BOND, Henry (ca 1600-1678). The Boat Swaines Art, or the Complete Boat-Swaine. Wherein is shewed a true Proportion for the Masting, Yarding, and Rigging of any Ship, whose Length, Breadth, and Depth is known: with Rules for the Sizes, and Lengths, of all sorts of Rigging that belongs to any Ship... London: William Godbid for William Fisher 1664. 4 o (191 x 142 mm). (Semi-circular tear at gutter of title and first three leaves crossing title border and some letters, title with a few chips along fore edge, some pale dampstaining.) Disbound; blue cloth folding case. Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 11 June 1974, lot 137). Second edition. Bond's practical manual gives sailors the tools for correctly proportioning masts, and preparing the yarding and rigging of any ship. He also describes the use of an opening scale to aid in the process. The title-page advertises the scales made in brass and wood by Christopher Packwood, Robert Bissaker and Joseph Hone. Bond states that his main intention is "for the help and direction of young men, that are willing to have some ground for what they shall undertake in this kind, and not go on hand over head" (quoted from "To the Reader"). Bond opens with a table of lengths and thicknesses of masts and yards of a ship that is 75 feet at the keel. His proceeding text explicates the process of scaling the masts and details the rigging that is necessary on a ship. His final postscript on the last leaf responds to the criticism against his instruction. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no early editions have been sold at auction in the last 30 years. The last to appear at auction are the present, at the Horblit sale in June 1974, and the Scott Library copy, sold 4 December 1974, lot 63, also a second edition. Adams & Waters 226; Wing B-3560A [Magdalen College, Cambridge only]. Not in Taylor Mathematical Practitioners .
BOND, Henry (ca 1600-1678). The Boat Swaines Art, or the Complete Boat-Swaine. Wherein is shewed a true Proportion for the Masting, Yarding, and Rigging of any Ship, whose Length, Breadth, and Depth is known: with Rules for the Sizes, and Lengths, of all sorts of Rigging that belongs to any Ship... London: William Godbid for William Fisher 1664.
BOND, Henry (ca 1600-1678). The Boat Swaines Art, or the Complete Boat-Swaine. Wherein is shewed a true Proportion for the Masting, Yarding, and Rigging of any Ship, whose Length, Breadth, and Depth is known: with Rules for the Sizes, and Lengths, of all sorts of Rigging that belongs to any Ship... London: William Godbid for William Fisher 1664. 4 o (191 x 142 mm). (Semi-circular tear at gutter of title and first three leaves crossing title border and some letters, title with a few chips along fore edge, some pale dampstaining.) Disbound; blue cloth folding case. Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 11 June 1974, lot 137). Second edition. Bond's practical manual gives sailors the tools for correctly proportioning masts, and preparing the yarding and rigging of any ship. He also describes the use of an opening scale to aid in the process. The title-page advertises the scales made in brass and wood by Christopher Packwood, Robert Bissaker and Joseph Hone. Bond states that his main intention is "for the help and direction of young men, that are willing to have some ground for what they shall undertake in this kind, and not go on hand over head" (quoted from "To the Reader"). Bond opens with a table of lengths and thicknesses of masts and yards of a ship that is 75 feet at the keel. His proceeding text explicates the process of scaling the masts and details the rigging that is necessary on a ship. His final postscript on the last leaf responds to the criticism against his instruction. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no early editions have been sold at auction in the last 30 years. The last to appear at auction are the present, at the Horblit sale in June 1974, and the Scott Library copy, sold 4 December 1974, lot 63, also a second edition. Adams & Waters 226; Wing B-3560A [Magdalen College, Cambridge only]. Not in Taylor Mathematical Practitioners .
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