COBIN, A. Short and Plain Principles or Linear Perspective, particularly adapted to shipping, &c. Containing rules to draw correctly the picturesque forms of ships, London: D. Steel, 1775, 8°, third edition, xi + 79pp., folding engraved frontispiece and 5 plates (frontispiece with a short tear, marginal tear to B2, a few spots) [Scott 356; Adams & Waters 363] [bound with:] Mungo MURRAY. Reference and Explanations of Naval Sections, &c. and of a new method of forming scales, for making exact bodies, properly adapted to shipping, London: for T. Cadell, and sold by S. Whitford & Mr. Dougleby, [n.d.], 8°, 20pp., 3 folding engraved plates, 2 works in one volume, contemporary calf (neatly rebacked with old spine relaid), Scott bookplate. [not in the Scott Catalogue or Adams & Waters]

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COBIN, A. Short and Plain Principles or Linear Perspective, particularly adapted to shipping, &c. Containing rules to draw correctly the picturesque forms of ships, London: D. Steel, 1775, 8°, third edition, xi + 79pp., folding engraved frontispiece and 5 plates (frontispiece with a short tear, marginal tear to B2, a few spots) [Scott 356; Adams & Waters 363] [bound with:] Mungo MURRAY. Reference and Explanations of Naval Sections, &c. and of a new method of forming scales, for making exact bodies, properly adapted to shipping, London: for T. Cadell, and sold by S. Whitford & Mr. Dougleby, [n.d.], 8°, 20pp., 3 folding engraved plates, 2 works in one volume, contemporary calf (neatly rebacked with old spine relaid), Scott bookplate. [not in the Scott Catalogue or Adams & Waters]

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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.

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