Papers On Naval Architecture And Other Subjects Connected With Naval Science. Vol. I only

London: G.B. Whittaker, 1828. First edition. leather_bound. Fine. 448 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Dedicated to the Rev. James Inman, Professor of the Royal Naval College and School of Naval Architecture In His Majesty's Dockyard At Portsmouth. Two fold-out maps at rear and fold-out plates within the text. All interior contents clean and very fresh. Finely bound in charcoal morocco decorated with cover gilt motifs, silk moire endpapers, inner dentelles. Spine with raised bands decorated with naval motifs and lettered in gilt. Aeg.