HUTCHINSON, William (mariner and dockmaster). [A Treatise on Practical Seamanship] A Treatise founded upon Philosophical and Rational Principles, towards establishing fixed rules, for the best form and proportional dimensions ... of merchant's ships in general; and also the management of them to the greatest advantage, by practical seamanship, Liverpool: Thomas Billinge, 1791, 4°, third edition, engraved frontispiece, 12 folding engraved plates (mainly marginal spotting to plates and text), contemporary half calf (neatly rebacked with old spine relaid, recornered, rubbed). [Adams & Waters 2181]