A Naval Expositor shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea. Also All Species that are received into the Magazine, and on what Services they are Used and Issued. Together with The Titles of all the Inferior Officers belonging to a Ship, with an Abridgment of their respective Duties.
by BLANCKLEY, Thomas Riley
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- Hardcover
- first
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed by E. Owen 1750, 1750. First edition. 4to. 264x205mm. pp. [viii], 191 [1bl]. Engraved title page within an attractive rococo border and engraved illustrations on the left margin of each page and three engravings in the text. Contemporary calf, upper and lower covers with gilt dog-tooth border and gilt fleurons at the corners. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lavishly decorated in gilt although somewhat rubbed and faded. Tan morocco label lettered in gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed and a small scuffed patch on the lower cover. Marbled endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. Internally very good. Overall a very nice copy of the first illustrated maritime dictionary in English. The illustrations are in particularly good condition and give a charming pictorial addition to the definitions of almost every aspect of boats and sailing from anchors to wrain staves. Thomas Blanckley (1717-1753) was the Clerk of the Survey at Portsmouth Dockyard and Commissioner of the Victualling Office. In other words, a man who knew his ships. ESTC: T131269
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- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3988
- Title
- A Naval Expositor shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea. Also All Species that are received into the Magazine, and on what Services they are Used and Issued. Together with The Titles of all the Inferior Officers belonging to a Ship, with an Abridgment of their respective Duties.
- Author
- BLANCKLEY, Thomas Riley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed by E. Owen 1750
- Date Published
- 1750
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About Voewood Rare Books
Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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