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Treatise on Stay-Sails for the Purpose of Intercepting Wind between the Square-Sails of Ships and other square-rigged Vessels...



Book Description
First Edition, tall 8vo, [1]-7, [2], [8]-77, [1]pp., with errata leaf, 2 engraved plates (Royal Yacht under the patent stay sails & a Frigate under the old stay sails), 24 diagrams on 13 plates, a little foxed, nineteenth-century polished calf, marbled sides.
Author
HEATHCOTE (Captain Sir Henry)
Date
1824
Publisher
London: Published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy,
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