Navigation Improv D Or The Art Of Rowing Ships Of All Rates In Calms With A More Easy Swift And Steady

by Thomas Savery

$13,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Printed and Sold by James Moxon, 1698. First edition. Small quarto 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 190 x 142 mm . 8 , 22, 2, publisher's advertisements pp. With one folding plate, and three engraved figures tipped in to the text. With two pages of publisher's advertisements. No complete copy on ABPC with the folding plate in the past 50 years. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full dark blue

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