STUART, CHARLES B.

The Naval Dry Docks of the United States. Illustrated with Twenty-Four fine Engravings on Steel. (2 Parts). Second Edition.

New York, Charles B. Norton, 1852. Large 4to. (33x27 cm.). Orig. full calf. Profusely gilt on spine and covers. Inside gilt borders. All edges gilt. Some wear to spine and lacks 2 cm. of leather at top of spine. Both covers detached. (4),113,83 pp. + 14 pp. of announcements. With all 24 engraved plates under tissue-guards. Some brownspots throughout and a leaf with some foxing. The plates in general fine with some brownspots, mainly marginal.

The first part deals with Granite Dry Docks, the second with Floating Dry Docks. "The smaller number of pages in the second edition is caused by the printing of the descriptions of the plates on both sides of the leaves, whereas they appear only on the recto in the first edition." (Sabin, 93148).

Order-nr.: 50742