Presentation Copy: On a New Principle of Constructing His Majesty's Ships of War / On the Great Strength Given to Ships of War by the Application of Diagonal Braces / On a New Principle of Constructing Ships in the Mercantile Navy
London: W. Bulmer & Co, 1814/1818/1820. Full Leather. 4to. Pp. 18, xviii; 8; 38; plates unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white diagrams, illustrations, facsimiles, and fold-out ship's plans. Marbled endpapers. Two bookplates (Library of the Royal Naval College; noted maritime collector Frederick Ellis) on front pastedown. Occasional RNC blindstamps.....