A Treatise on Ships Anchors.
Cotsell, George.
John Weale, ( 1856), London
10 x 18 cm. xii, 125, (6 - publisher's ads) pp. b/w plates and line ills.
Price: $50
Thorough and well-illustrated work on anchors of the mid 1800s, with over a dozen current types illustrated and described, with theory and construction of anchors and their constituent parts. Cotsell was an anchor manufacturer himself and speaks with authority. Published by John Weale, a company specializing in works on marine architecture, with a 6-page catalog of their other works. Bound in original blind stamped cloth with paper cover label, the whole enclosed in handmade cloth over cardboard.
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