SEPPINGS, Robert (Sir). On a New Principle of constructing His Majesty's Ships of War ... from the Philosophical Transactions, London: by W. Bulmer, 1814, 4°, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed: "Wm. Nicholson Esqr. from the Author," [2] + 18 + xviiipp., folding engraved plate (spotted and creased), contemporary diced calf, spine gilt with ship motif (joints rubbed and slightly cracking), bookplates of William Nicholson, to whom the book was presented, and Scott Library. [Scott 515] With the same author's Letter addressed to ... Viscount Melville ... First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty on the circular sterns of ships of war (London, 1822, 4°), bound in one volume with three extracts from the Philosophical Transactions by Seppings, Thomas Young and Thomas Atwood. (2)

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SEPPINGS, Robert (Sir). On a New Principle of constructing His Majesty's Ships of War ... from the Philosophical Transactions, London: by W. Bulmer, 1814, 4°, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, title inscribed: "Wm. Nicholson Esqr. from the Author," [2] + 18 + xviiipp., folding engraved plate (spotted and creased), contemporary diced calf, spine gilt with ship motif (joints rubbed and slightly cracking), bookplates of William Nicholson, to whom the book was presented, and Scott Library. [Scott 515] With the same author's Letter addressed to ... Viscount Melville ... First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty on the circular sterns of ships of war (London, 1822, 4°), bound in one volume with three extracts from the Philosophical Transactions by Seppings, Thomas Young and Thomas Atwood. (2)

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