REED, Edward J. (Sir) A Treatise on the Stability of Ships, London: Charles Griffin, 1885, 8°, FIRST EDITION, diagrams, folding tables at end, original blue cloth; Our Iron-Clad Ships, London: John Murray, 1869, 8°, FIRST EDITION, folding wood-engraved frontispiece, diagrams, some full page, original red cloth, both works with Scott bookplate. [Scott 793; 760] With the following titles by E. Gardiner Fishbourne: Lectures on Naval Architecture (London, 1846), Our Ironclads and Merchant Ships (London, 1874), On the Insufficient Stability of H. M.'s late Turret-Ship "Captain" (1871) and Stability the Seaman's Safeguard (London, 1878, 16°), also C. Piazzi Smyth's pamphlet On the Angular Disturbances of Ships (presentation copy, Edinburgh, 1857), all from the Scott Library, and one other work by Reed. (8)

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REED, Edward J. (Sir) A Treatise on the Stability of Ships, London: Charles Griffin, 1885, 8°, FIRST EDITION, diagrams, folding tables at end, original blue cloth; Our Iron-Clad Ships, London: John Murray, 1869, 8°, FIRST EDITION, folding wood-engraved frontispiece, diagrams, some full page, original red cloth, both works with Scott bookplate. [Scott 793; 760] With the following titles by E. Gardiner Fishbourne: Lectures on Naval Architecture (London, 1846), Our Ironclads and Merchant Ships (London, 1874), On the Insufficient Stability of H. M.'s late Turret-Ship "Captain" (1871) and Stability the Seaman's Safeguard (London, 1878, 16°), also C. Piazzi Smyth's pamphlet On the Angular Disturbances of Ships (presentation copy, Edinburgh, 1857), all from the Scott Library, and one other work by Reed. (8)

拍品專文

Sir Edward Reed was the designer of H.M.S. "Devastation," 285 feet long with 9300 tons displacement, the first of the so-called "mastless" turret ships, and the prototype of all subsequent battleships, launched in 1869.