Lot Essay
The first issue of this work was published in Leeds. Apart from a reprinted title, the London issue is identical.
Details
LEVER, Darcy. The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, a key to the leading of rigging, and to practical seamanship, London: for John Richardson, 1808, 4°, FIRST EDITION, second issue, 55 double-sided engraved plates (lightly browned or spotted), contemporary half calf (neat repairs to head of spine, recornered, new endpapers). [Maggs Nautica 1415]