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Object number2012.00558

TitleThe Shipbuilder's Repository; or, A Treatise on Marine Architecture

DescriptionBook: The Shipbuilder's Repository; or, A Treatise on Marine Architecture. Bound in a 18th century English dark brown sheepskin binding, with book title gold tooled on spine. Partly restored.

Production date approx 1780 - approx 1780

Object namebook

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Materialpaper, card, sheepskin

Techniqueprinted, handcrafted

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DocumentationShipbuilder's Repository; or, A Treatise on Marine Architecture : wherein are contained the principles of the art, with the theory and practical parts fully explained; and every instruction required in the building and completing a ship, of every class, from the forming of the draught, to the launching into the water. Calculated to the capacity of young beginners: compiled and digested in a manner entirely new, and laid down different from what was hitherto appaered on the subject. The whole being intended as a Complete Companion for those Naval Architects, desirous of attaining a competent knowledge of that important art.

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