CHAPMAN, Frederik Henrik af. Tractat om Skepps-Byggeriet, tillika med förklaring och bevis öfvr Architectura navalis mercatoria &c., Stockholm: Johan Pfeiffer, 1775, 4°, FIRST EDITION, JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL'S COPY, 16 engraved plates and 8 letterpress tables, all folding, 5 tipped in manuscript slips (?) in Scott Russell's hand, all containing equations (occasional spotting), 19th-century red morocco gilt uniform with lot 24, g.e., bookplates of John Scott Russel and the Scott Library. [Scott 335; Berlin Katalog 1460; Maggs Nautica 1272]

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CHAPMAN, Frederik Henrik af. Tractat om Skepps-Byggeriet, tillika med förklaring och bevis öfvr Architectura navalis mercatoria &c., Stockholm: Johan Pfeiffer, 1775, 4°, FIRST EDITION, JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL'S COPY, 16 engraved plates and 8 letterpress tables, all folding, 5 tipped in manuscript slips (?) in Scott Russell's hand, all containing equations (occasional spotting), 19th-century red morocco gilt uniform with lot 24, g.e., bookplates of John Scott Russel and the Scott Library. [Scott 335; Berlin Katalog 1460; Maggs Nautica 1272]

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The title translates as "Treatise on ship building and an explanation and proof of Architectura navalis mercatoria." An explanation was given of some draughts, though not of all the plates in the earlier work, and Chapman considerably updated his own theories.

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