Presentation Copy New Principle Constructing by Seppings Sir Robert (1 results)
More imagesPublished by W. Bulmer & Co, London 1820
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, U.S.A.Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller3-star sellerFull Leather. Condition: Good+. 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 R…NC 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. 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.
