Lot Essay
TWO RARE PAMPHLETS. Adams & Waters locate one copy of the first edition of Cobin. Entitled Short plain principles of line at perspective and published by J. Eynon in 1752, this is at Cambridge University Library; they trace no copy of the second edition; and locate just one other copy of the third edition at the Winterthur Museum Library, Delaware. Murray's Reference and Explanations of Naval Sections is apparently unrecorded.