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BLACKBURN, Isaac. A Treatise on the Science of Ship-Building with observations on the British Navy, the extraordinary decay of the Men of War, and on the causes, effects and prevention of the dry rot, London: for James Apserne, 1817, 4°, FIRST EDITION, diagrams (some spotting and browning, without the advertisement leaves at end), later 19th-century half roan. [Scott 526; Maggs Nautica 440]