[Rarebooks] FS: Sheet Anchor (Maritime) (Association)

[Deborah Thornton Pendleton]

For Your Consideration.
LEVER, Darcy. THE YOUNG SEA OFFICER'S SHEET ANCHOR, OR A KEY TO THE 
LADING OF RIGGING AND TO PRACTICAL SEAMANSHIP WITH AN APPENDIX 
CONTAINING SEVERAL FIGURES ILLUSTRATIVE OF NOVELTIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN 
RIGGING &c.&c.&c.Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, [1819]. First 
Philadelphia from the Second London Edition. Quarto; 12,(2), 124 pp; in 
old calf expertly rebacked with raised bands and leather title label. 
Illustrated title page with contemporary inscription. Naval student 
graffiti on front blanks (which now serve as front paste-downs to the 
restored binding)and on verso of some plates. Slight chips to edges of 
some pages; title page expertly restored, but lacking some of the 
lettering of the inscription. Slight toning and light to moderate foxing 
to pages. With 111 illustration plates of ships, ropes, knots, 
conditions, &c. The inscription to Midshipman William Reynolds by Lieut. 
George A. Prentiss (later a Commander in the Civil War)reads "Since this 
was written great alterations and improvements have been made in the 
rigging and sailing ships but as the principles of working ship remains 
unchanged you cannot read this too much." The signature of William 
Reynolds, USN appears twice in the text. [William Reynolds, from 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the older brother of Maj. General John 
Reynolds, the gifted Pennsylvania corps commander of the Army of the 
Potomac, killed the first day of Gettysburg. William Reynolds, 
(1815-1879) joined the navy as a midshipman in 1831, age 16, and he was 
among the last of cadets to experience on-ship training under canvas to 
assume the role of officer. At the age of 22 he set sail serving on the 
United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, and his letters and 
journals from that period have served as major sources for recent 
histories on this first great national exploring expedition which 
included a combination of naval personnel and civilian naturalists and 
scientists. The collections gathered on that expedition formed the 
National Museum of the United States at the Smithsonian Institution. In 
the Civil War William Reynolds had a significant role as commander of 
the US Navy station at Port Royal, SC (1862-1865), instrumental in 
maintaining the North's stranglehold blockade on the South. He retired 
as a Rear Admiral in 1877.]        $1150

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