[Rarebooks] FS: STANDARD DESIGNS FOR BOATS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Hichborn, Philip. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Construction 
and Repair. STANDARD DESIGNS FOR  BOATS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. 
SPECIFICATIONS, SCHEDULE OF MATERIAL, WEIGHTS AND COST. Washington, 
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900. Frontis, 96 pp. + Plates 
[222]. Illus. with 222 b/w  plans and photographic plates and 1 
drawing. Obl. Folio (34 x 39 cm). Three quarter morocco over cloth 
boards. First edition.

Gift to the Illinois Commandery by Capt. Horatio L. Wait, member of 
the Illinois  naval militia, who served in the Civil War Navy 
blockading vessels outside Mobile harbor, and  was later a Fleet 
Judge Advocate. A design manual for the construction of various sizes 
of steam cutters, launches, cutters, whaleboats, gig whaleboats, 
barges, dinghies, balsa boats and punts. Boards detached and worn at 
the corners, spine scuffed with remnant of label, bookplate of 
Illinois Commandery of M.O.L.L.U.S. library on front pastedown, some 
finger soiling to the front blanks otherwise contents near fine. 
[31149]   $485.00


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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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