A brief sketch of the plan and advantages of a sectional floating dry dock, combined with a permanent stone basin and platform, and connected with level bedways, sliding ways, and housed slips for repairing, launching, and laying up in ordinary the ships of the United States Navy
New York: Jared W. Bell, 1844. Large folding lithograph broadside, 17.5" x 31"; original yellow printed covers present but separated, lacking the 32 pages of text originally bound with; waterstains, covers soiled and chipped, a couple small closed tears at folds, but otherwise sound. 4 copies in OCLC From an..... More