A New table of all the names of the principal parts and rigging of a man of war ... : also all the prospects of a section of a ship cut thro' the keel, both fore & aft with her boats, longboats and sloops.

A New table of all the names of the principal parts and rigging of a man of war ... : also all the prospects of a section of a ship cut thro' the keel, both fore & aft with her boats, longboats and sloops.

[London] : Sold by Daniel Midwinter at the Three crowns in St. Paul's church yard London, [ca. 1710]

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 55 x 67 cm (full-sheet)

Engraved throughout. Shows a 96-gun man-of-war broadside, in section, and from the stern and prow, surrounded by 18 smaller illustrations of compasses, sloops, longboats, stern carvings, etc.

D. Midwinter moved to address given in imprint between 1706 and 1708. Cf. Plomer, Dict. of printers 1668-1725. A work closely corresponding to the present is listed in Midwinter's sales catalog of ca. 1713, sig. *2v.

A Dutch version of this engraving, published Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, appears in Folger copy of Cornelis van Yk's "De Nederlandsche scheeps-bouw-konst open gestelt ... 1697." Cf. also Greenwich, Eng. National Maritime Museum. Library. Cat., v. 3, no. 115 which describes another Dutch version appearing in J. van Keulen's [Atlas], 1709.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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