(Shipbuilding) Mungo Murray [A Treatise on Ship-Building and...

Estimate

£50 - £80

(Shipbuilding) Mungo Murray [A Treatise on Ship-Building and Navigation ... to which is added by way of Appendix, an English Abridgement of another Treatise on Naval Architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel] A deficient copy with many issues, lacking rear board and spine, lacks half and title page; a-a7, pp.(3)- pp.344, lacking pp.251 to 258, printing error p.192 as 202, Duhamel translation runs pp.1-70, lacks pp14 to 16, printing error p.54 as 44, Supplement runs pp.1-117, 2 pages of advertisements, with 16 plates mostly debound, all with heavy spotting and toning, as listed; plt I, lacks plt II, heavy spotting to verso of plt III, plt IV, plt V, VI, VIII, tear to plt IX and debound, plt XII, plt XIII, (Duhamel trans) two plt II although different, plt IV, plt V, plt I, plt III. [1754] Although many issues, a near complete copy of a scarce work.