YOUNG, Charles F. T. The Fouling and Corrosion of Iron Ships: their causes and means of prevention, with the mode of application to the existing iron-clads, London: London Drawing Association, 1867, 8°, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED on title: "with the complts. of the Publishers", folding engraved frontispiece, one folding engraved plate (a few spots to title), original pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped vignette of "H. M. S. Warrior" to front cover (extremities rubbed), Scott bookplate. [Scott 754] With a cross-section of 80 or more books, most on ship construction in the later 19th-century, in English, Russian and other languages. The lot sold not subject to return.