John Fincham A History of Naval Architecture: To Which is Prefixed, an Introductory Dissertation on the Application of Mathematical Science to the Art of Naval Construction. (With Fifty-Eight Illustrative Plates)

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John Fincham : A History of Naval Architecture: To Which is Prefixed, an Introductory Dissertation on the Application of Mathematical Science to the Art of Naval Construction. (With Fifty-Eight Illustrative Plates)

Whittaker and Co., London, 1851

Recent blind-lined ½ navy calf with matching marble boards, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands and gilt nautical motifs, gilt text on two, four, and six, endpapers renewed. , Occasional mild browning; otherwise a very good uncut copy., Tall 8vo., P. (4), frontis, title, printer’s imprint, dedication, blank, preface v-viii, contents (11), blank, list of engravings (2), errata, blank, introduction ix-lxxxiv, 1-415, blank, (4)., Complete with 58 plates on 57 sheets depicting naval vessels throughout history and several cross-sections and other diagrams.

A summary of the history and evolution of naval architecture from the time of the Phoenicians and Greeks to the British Empire. The text is complimented by a large number of illustrations that offer a detailed rendering of the evolution of ship-building. One of the most important books on the subject, published at a period of astonishingly rapid technological development., MacDonald 303

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