Naval Architecture Past And Present, Complete in Two Parts

Brown, Allan D.

Published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1872

About this Item

19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 30 characteristic Harper's engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLIV, Nos. 262 and 263, March - April, 1872. Illustrations include an ancient Galley with three banks of oars, a ship of William the Conqueror, a ship from the 14th century, the Great Harry, a Genoese Carack from 1542, a British ship of war from 1578, the Sovereign of the Seas, 1637, the Royal Charles war ship, 1673, the Royal George, Galleons from the 17th century, a Galley of the 17th century, a Chinese junk, a double canoe from the Society Islands, a flying Proa from the Ladrone Islands, a double canoe from the Friendly Islands, three section views of the Demologos, a paddle frigate, screw frigate, an iron-clad floating battery used by the French in the Crimea, the ships Constitution, Duke of Wellington, Great Eastern, Royal Oak, Solferino, Minotaur, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Inconstant, the iron-clad Warrior, and multiple views of the Monitor. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Naval Architecture Past And Present, Complete in Two Parts
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers, NY
• Publication Date: 1872
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: VG