A Treatise on Practical Seamanship; with Hints and Remarks related thereto: Designed to contribute something towards fixing Rules upon Philosophical and Rational Principles; to Make Ships, and the Management of Them; and also Navigation, in General, more Perfect, and Consequently less Dangerous and Destructive to Health, Lives, and Property
Liverpool: William Hutchinson, 1777. First Edition. Full leather. 4to. Pp. xiv, 213, plates. Frontis. black & white engraving of a sailing ship. Illustrated with black & white engravings and a fold out map of the Liverpool harbor. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown, along with owner's yacht name in ink.....