Demonstration Diving Engine by Jacob Rowe (5 results)

Limited numbered facsimile edn (47 of 750). Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 39, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition of 750 Numbered Copies. Jacket has light general wear an no tears. Small neat retailer's label to front pastedown. Book very clean. Binding tight. Numbered 377 of 750 copies. 39pp Size: 195mm x 255mm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A very clean and crisp hardback copy of this slim facsimile reprint in a clean a fresh pictorial dust jacket. No previous ownership names. 39 numbered pages. There is a tiny bit of rubbing to the jacket in the top right-hand corner of the upper cover, but overall this is a very fresh and attractive copy.

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in burgundy cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is number 407 from a limited edition of 750 copies, it is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper is in fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw an increased interest in the business of diving, and a proliferation of new designs of equipment. In the first half of the eighteenth century, a number of divers used the 'barrel' type of apparatus to salvage goods and treasure from the bottom of the sea. One of these was Jacob Rowe, a man of many parts: sea captain, engineer, inventor, author and diver, but it is as a diver that he is now remembered. He was a man of great drive and determination, achieving two remarkable feats of marine salvage, during an era when underwater salvage was just beginning in earnest. Here, for the first time, is printed his treatise on diving, describing in detail how his apparatus was constructed and used. Not only is Rowe's treatise the first known English monograph on diving, it is also one of only a handful of treatises on the subject, in any language, written during the eighteenth century. The publication of Rowe's original manuscript, together with a recently researched account of his life and work, throws new light on this aspect of maritime history. Ref K3 Size: 40pp.

Crown quarto, 39 pages, including 15 facsimile pages printed in sepia. Case bound with dust jacket. New. FIRST EDITION. A facsimile of an eighteenth century illustrated manuscript, which is a practical manual for the use of Rowe?s diving apparatus, of the type known as a barrel. The diver was encased in a cylinder where he lay on his stomach with his arms protruding through sealed holes, in which he was lowered down to the seabed from a ship. The manuscript describes and illustrates the construction of the apparatus, and the methods used for locating, breaking up, and salvaging a wreck. ISBN 0-948065-39-7.