The Young Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, A Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship
London: 1819. Full leather. A very handsome copy of the 1819 2nd London edition, bound in a full, contemporary-to-the-period, polished blue calf, with gilt floral and geometric rolls, gilt turn-ins and renewed marbled endpapers and pastedowns. The rebacked spine, in 6 ridged and gilt-bordered compartments, boasts bright gilt-tooling and lettering..... More