An history of marine architecture : including an enlarged and progressive view of the nautical regulations and naval history, both civil and military, of all nations, especially of Great Britain ..

An history of marine architecture : including an enlarged and progressive view of the nautical regulations and naval history, both civil and military, of all nations, especially of Great Britain ..

London R. Faulder ... [and 30 others] 1800-02

3 v. : ill., [99] leaves of plates (some fold.) ; 30 x 24 cm.

623.81 C483, 1800

(OCoLC)02593703

Imprint varies slightly.
Vol. 1 has added t.p., engraved, dated 1801.
Title (contd): derived chiefly from original manuscripts, as well in private collections as in the great public repositories : and deduced from the earliest period to the present time ...
L1995F46
Armorial bookplate on verso of cover: Arthur Howe Holdsworth.
On v. 1: Four page letter to Holdsworth from English naval historian James Anthony Froude laid in first front free endpaper; Folding ms. plan in ink, colored in part laid in back cover, showing the advantages of a square- sterned vessel in firing on a target close to the vessel and immediately astern; On v. 2 & 3: Ms. inscriptions on free endpapers and table for ships names, dimensions .... laid in.

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