[Rarebooks] FS: Steel. Naval Architecture

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Steel, David. THE ELEMENTS AND PRACTICE OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE; OR, A 
TREATISE ON SHIP- BUILDING, THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL, ON THE BEST 
PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN, WITH COPIOUS TABLES OF 
DIMENSIONS AND SCANTLINGS, &C. ILLUSTRATED WITH A SERIES OF 
THIRTY-NINE LARGE DRAUGHTS, AND NUMEROUS SMALLER ENGRAVINGS WITH AN 
APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF CONSTRUCTING THE 
ROYAL AND MERCANTILE NAVIES. AS INVENTED AND INTRODUCED BY SIR ROBERT 
SEPPINGS, SURVEYOR OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY, BY JOHN KNOWLES.... [TWO 
VOLUMES].

London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. Frontis, xvi, 
438 pp., [1 lv], [118], lix-lxxvi, 27, [2 lvs], 62 pp; 16 plates. + 
Atlas volume [39 folding plans]. 4to (27x21.8 cm) & Elephant Folio 
(46.5 x 50 cm).  Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, brown 
morocco spine label, gilt lettering, five raised bands; folio volume, 
quarter calf over plain boards, brown morocco spine label, gilt 
lettering . Witt 18. Third edition.

First published by Steel in 1805, the work "is certainly the most 
comprehensive book on naval architecture to have appeared in the 
English language up to that time," (Witt, Bibliography of the 
Works...by David Steel and his Successors. p. 25). A second edition 
appeared in 1812 and this third and final edition in 1822. "Knowles 
has sometimes been given as the author of this third edition. In 
fact, the edition seems to have been made of unsold sheets from the 
1812 edition to which a new title has been added at the beginning and 
additional matter with 6 new lithograph plates (in the text volume) 
by Knowles at the end" (Witt, p. 27). The folio volume is quite rare. 
"This is due to the individual draughts being taken from the folio, 
so that the actual delineations for the ship to be built could be 
drawn on the mould-loft floor," according to Sim Comfort. Text 
volume: boards rubbed with wear to extremities, small chip and tear 
to the head of the title page; plate volume: boards rubbed, wear to 
spine ends with some minor loss at foot, corners worn, some 
offsetting to rear of plates, marginal tear to one plate; overall a 
very good handsome set of this scarce, magnificent work.  [33032] 
$8000.00

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