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Presumed to be an extract from the New Royal Encyclopaedia, published by cooke's in 1791 and edited by William Henry Hall.
This binding contains mostly the ship building and Seamanship sections from the encyclopedia, including plates and pull out diagrams of ship hulls and structure.
The extract that comes with no title page starts on page 225 with Sheep through to page 242 for Ship and page 247 for Ship-Building, which continues through to page 309, including plates 484 - 495 on ship design. The extract continues to page 316 and plate 496 before before jumping to page 345 - 354 (Naval Signals section) with the last section in the binding being Seamanship (Page 73 - 98) including plates 479 - 483
Many pages have tables showing different parameters within ship design, such as draught in water, weights, lengths, timber sizes, etc.
A fascinating insight into late 18c naval architecture.
There is some extensive foxing to some of the plates, and the pages are yellowed and a little musky, as you might expect, given its age. Please study the pictures to see the extent of foxing to some of the plates. Plate 493 is particularly bad with foxing.
More information or photographs are available on request.
