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Lot 83
ROSS, John (1777-1856). A Treatise on Navigation by Steam.
Estimate: $600 - $800
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ROSS, John (1777-1856). A Treatise on Navigation by Steam. First Edition.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.
A treatise on navigation by steam: comprising a history of the steam engine, and an essay towards a system of the naval tactics peculiar to steam navigation, as applicable both to commerce and maritime warfare; including a comparison of its advantages as related to other systems in the circumstances of speed, safety and economy, but more particularly in that of the national defence ... illustrated with plates and engravings, by Captain John Ross.
xxiii, 182 pages, 1 ., 68 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates: illustrations.
Bound in blind stamped leather with crosshatch pattern, decorative gilt borders, gilt spine title, marbled edges and marbled endpapers.
H: 10 3/4 W: 8 1/2 in.
With “John Millis U.S. Engineer Corps,” in ink on front free endpaper (Millis was a military man and author, with papers at U of M (https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-wcl-M-3389.1mil
and https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/2879*.html)
With bookplate “John A. Davidson,” at read pastedown.
Condition
Good; edges and corners rubbed, covers scratched and slightly soiled, front free endpaper detached, frontis with offsetting on t..p., some slight offsetting of type throughout.
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From the Estate of John A. Davidson, Jr. Proceeds to benefit the APL of Lorain County and the Dittrick Museum.
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