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. Bound in brown leather with gilt lettering stamped on cover and spine. Rebacked with original boards retained. Rubbed edges and corners; light scuffs to boards. Good+. Item #11332
The gilt lettering on the cover reads "The Honble Sir James Robert George Graham Bt, First Lord of the Admiralty, From the Author." Sir James Graham (1792-1861), served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1830 to 1834 and again from 1852 to 1855.
Price: $1,150.00