The Elements and Practices of Naval Architecture; or, a Treastie on Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical, on the Best Principles Established in Great Britain, with Copious Tables of Dimentions and Scantlings.
London: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall 1822. 2 volumes; atlas is in elephant folio (465 x 500 mm) illustrated with 39 draughts, text volume in large 4to (270 x 218 mm), 438pp., LVII tables, 62pp., appendix on construction of ships of the Royal Navies by John Knowles, 16 plates, some folding. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards for text and half calf and brown boards for atlas volume. Condition : some edge wear to bindings. third edition of this rare set . First published in 1805. Steel writes, “In Great Britain the naval arts are indigenous, and flourish with a superiority, which is the result of a vast demand for their various labours. But, singular though it is, the British Nation cannot boast of having taught or considerably improved them by the efforts of her press.
The Elements and Practices of Naval Architecture; or, a Treastie on Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical, on the Best Principles Established in Great Britain, with Copious Tables of Dimentions and Scantlings.
London: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall 1822. 2 volumes; atlas is in elephant folio (465 x 500 mm) illustrated with 39 draughts, text volume in large 4to (270 x 218 mm), 438pp., LVII tables, 62pp., appendix on construction of ships of the Royal Navies by John Knowles, 16 plates, some folding. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards for text and half calf and brown boards for atlas volume. Condition : some edge wear to bindings. third edition of this rare set . First published in 1805. Steel writes, “In Great Britain the naval arts are indigenous, and flourish with a superiority, which is the result of a vast demand for their various labours. But, singular though it is, the British Nation cannot boast of having taught or considerably improved them by the efforts of her press.
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