[WAR SHIPS] Report of the Committe of Master Shipwrights on the Construction of Ships of War, London: for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1845, 2°, PRESENTATION COPY TO AUGUSTINE CREUZE with tipped-in letter, dated 13th March 1848, stating that the report is sent at the command of the Admiralty, 23 lithographed plates, some double-page and folding, contemporary half calf, Scott bookplate. [Scott 664] With 13 other volumes, including Francis Ingram Palmer's Descriptive Account of an Horizontal-Acting and Disconnecting Spur-Torpedo-Ram (London, 1873, 4°) in original cloth (front inner hinges split), and the following pamphlets from the Scott Library: H. J. Boolds Proposed Cellular Ships of War (Glasgow, 1865), F.-L. Roux Conservation des Plaques des Navires Cuirassés et des Coques en Fer (Paris, 1866), Captain Coles and the Admiralty: the Turret System of armour-clad war vessels (London, 1866). (14)

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[WAR SHIPS] Report of the Committe of Master Shipwrights on the Construction of Ships of War, London: for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1845, 2°, PRESENTATION COPY TO AUGUSTINE CREUZE with tipped-in letter, dated 13th March 1848, stating that the report is sent at the command of the Admiralty, 23 lithographed plates, some double-page and folding, contemporary half calf, Scott bookplate. [Scott 664] With 13 other volumes, including Francis Ingram Palmer's Descriptive Account of an Horizontal-Acting and Disconnecting Spur-Torpedo-Ram (London, 1873, 4°) in original cloth (front inner hinges split), and the following pamphlets from the Scott Library: H. J. Boolds Proposed Cellular Ships of War (Glasgow, 1865), F.-L. Roux Conservation des Plaques des Navires Cuirassés et des Coques en Fer (Paris, 1866), Captain Coles and the Admiralty: the Turret System of armour-clad war vessels (London, 1866). (14)

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