Beschreibung:

A Treatise on Ship-Building and Navigation ... to which is added by way of Appendix, an English Abridgement of another Treatise on Naval Architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel, 1st edition, for the author, 1754, 3 parts in 1 volume, 18 engraved folding plates, 1 with volvelle, part 2 comprising numerous tables, mild spotting and toning to a few plates, and some slightly rumpled and soiled along fore margins, but generally a clean copy, leaf from a manuscript ship's log dated 11-14 June 1728 laid in (37 x 24 cm, slightly frayed in margins; see note), contemporary armorial bookplate of Thomas Hall Esq., contemporary sprinkled tan calf, red morocco label, slightly rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped, 4to (25. 8 x 20 cm) Murray (c. 1705-1770) was at the time of writing a shipwright at Deptford Dockyard, and later served with Lord Howe on the Magnamine and then the Princess Amelia during the Seven Years' War. This copy contains a laid-in leaf from a manuscript log describing the passage of East India Company merchant vessel the Prince Augustus from St Helena to England in 1728, under the command of Francis Goslin. (1)