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STALKARTT, MARMADUKE. Naval Architecture or the Rudiments and Rules of Ship Building exemplified in a series of Draughts and Plans. With Observations. London: for the author 1781. 2 vols., the text in folio, 376 x 235mm. (14 3/4 x 9 1/4in.), contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., possibly by Baumgarten, rebacked, corners repaired, some wear; the plates in atlas folio, modern red half roan, many fore-edges torn, some repaired, some dust soiling. FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page in the text vol., 17 engraved plates in the atlas (numbered I-VI, VI, VII-IX, IX, X-XIV, XIV), 9 of them double-page or folding. Betty M. Cooper, Catalogue of the Scott Collection (London 1954), no. 380.

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STALKARTT, MARMADUKE. Naval Architecture or the Rudiments and Rules of Ship Building exemplified in a series of Draughts and Plans. With Observations. London: for the author 1781. 2 vols., the text in folio, 376 x 235mm. (14 3/4 x 9 1/4in.), contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., possibly by Baumgarten, rebacked, corners repaired, some wear; the plates in atlas folio, modern red half roan, many fore-edges torn, some repaired, some dust soiling. FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page in the text vol., 17 engraved plates in the atlas (numbered I-VI, VI, VII-IX, IX, X-XIV, XIV), 9 of them double-page or folding. Betty M. Cooper, Catalogue of the Scott Collection (London 1954), no. 380.

Provenance: Henry Beaufoy, bookplate -- Harrison D. Horblit, bookplate. (2)