The Ship-Builders Assistant: or, Some Essays Towards Compleating the Art of Marine Architecture, etc, etc.

Sutherland (W.) Leather

Edité par 1711 rp 1989 in a limited edition of 50 copies Rotherfield, 1711

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(xii), 165pp, 13 folding engraved plates (some with colour tints), illus in text, teg, coloured endpapers, attractive format (23cm x 16cm), half calf with marbled paper over boards, a good clean copy. Publisher: One of the earliest English books on naval architecture, preceded only (if we ignore Deane's manuscript treatise) by Edmund Bushell's Complete Ship-wright (1664) and John Hardingham's The Accomplish'd Ship-Wright and Mariner (1706). Sutherland came from a family of shipwrights and was the author of another book on shipbuilding: Britain's Glory, or Ship-building Unvail'd, first published in 1717. Bruzelius, page 152: First edition 1711. Second edition 1726, other editions 1755, 1766, 1784, 1794 and 1840.

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• Titre: The Ship-Builders Assistant: or, Some Essays Towards Compleating the Art of Marine Architecture, etc, etc.
• Éditeur: 1711 rp 1989 in a limited edition of 50 copies Rotherfield
• Date de parution: 1711