WITSEN, Nicolaas. Aeloude en hedendaegsche Scheeps-bouw en Bestier, Amsterdam: Casparus Commelijn & Jan Appelaer, 1671, small 2°, FIRST EDITION, etched title by Romeyn de Hooghe, title printed in red and black, 114 engraved plates after Witsen, one double-page, gathering Ooo in three leaves (lacking portrait, deep but clean tears to plate 19 and to G1, H4 and Pp4, double-page plate frayed at margins and torn with loss, occasional light thumb-soiling and browning), contemporary vellum (lightly soiled), Scott bookplate. [Scott 123: "deals exhaustively with the design and construction of a ship of 60 guns; and also writes of ancient shipbuilding"; Maggs Nautica 583: "the most famous Dutch work on shipbuilding, and one of the classics of the art"] shipbuilding,