Instruction sur les bois de marine et leur application aux constructions navales /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Paris :
Arthus Bertrand, Éditeur, Libraire maritime et scieintifique,
[1859]
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| Item Description: | "Tarif pour la recette et le classement des bois de construction" (22 pages) has separate title page; printed by Firmin Didot frères, fils, et Cie. (on colophon). "Tarif A pour le cubage estimatif, au 1/3 déduit, des arbres sur pied" (21 pages) printed by Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard. With 58 numbered plates, including 42 engraved (3 folding) and 16 chromolithographed, 6 numbered full-page woodcut illustrations on integral leaves and 5 wood-engraved mathematical figures in text. (From bookseller's description). "First and only edition of a set of thorough guidelines for selecting wood suitable for the construction of ships. On 16 October 1858, the French Administration of Forestry was allowed by decree to deliver logged wood and timber directly to the naval shipyard. For the navy this had a certain advantage over buying wood commercially and the present set of guidelines was written for everyone involved in the process, giving a comprehensive technical overview of wood and timber and their application in naval architecture. The plates and full-page woodcuts together provide a total of 64 illustrations, including 16 cross sections of wood, printed in colour, 33 depictions of trees and their possibilities for various kinds of timber, 9 showing the interior of ships and 6 illustrating curves in timber."--From bookseller's description. The Cushing Library/Maritime Collection copy has a Dutch library stamp and owner's inscription in pencil on title page. The Cushing Library/Maritime Collection copy was purchased by the Cushing Library |
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| Physical Description: | 2 preliminary leaves, 32, 22, 2 blank pages, 21 pages, 3 blank pages : including illustrations, tables, lviii plates (some folded and color) ; 28 cm |