Steel, David

Tratado práctico de velamen. Tradicido del ingles por Don Juan Jose Martinez y Tacon, ceniente de navio de la Real Armada

Madrid: imprenta de Don Miguel de Burgos, 1829. 8vo, pp. iv, 101, [3]; 4 engraved folding plates showing a total of 61 cuts of sailcloth; recent full maroon niger lettered in gilt on spine; minor dampstaining, but generally very good or better. Includes a 24-page dictionary of sailmaking terms. A translation of Steel's The Art of Sail-Making, first published in The Elements of Practice of Rigging and Seamanship, 1794. Not in NUC; OCLC locates 2 copies in Spain and another at the National Maritime Museum in the UK. Item #25241

Price: $750.00