A Collection Of Drawings Including A Fine Extended Drawing In Brush Wash Colors Of A Ship S Steam

by Steamship Engine Drawings

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

14 sheets, ranging from 2000 x 377 mm. to 670 x 385 mm. the 12 drawings to 567 x 380 mm. the furnace , plus the wrapper. All on fine thin paper. Japan: ca. 1855-63 . With the first demonstration of steam power in Japan, thanks to Commodore Perry’s visit in July of 1853, the feudal domains immediately began to organize the construction of a fleet of large Western-style warships. By the August 1853 arrival in Nagasaki of the Russian Admiral Yevfimy

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