The Seaman's Manual, Containing A Treatise on Practical Seamanship

Title: The Seaman's Manual, Containing A Treatise on Practical Seamanship

Author: Dana, R.H. [Richard Henry], Jr.

Publication: London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1841.

Description: First British edition of Richard Henry Dana's popular manual for sailors, including a dictionary of sea terms and explanations of maritime law. Five plates, depicting a ship's spars and rigging, sails, and frame; types of ships; and knots. In original publisher's brown cloth binding, blind-stamped, with lettering in gilt on the spine. 7 x 4.5 inches; xii, [4], 264, pages. Annotations in pencil by former owners on front free endpaper. Binding with moderate wear and soiling and a rather sunned spine, foxing to plates and a few leaves, else a clean interior. Very Good. From the collection of Arthur Williams Hall (1873–1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, with his pencil note on front free endpaper; thence by descent through three generations. According to Blanck, this book was published in London in November 1841; the American edition appeared the month before as "The Seaman's Friend." Reference: Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 4436. Full title: The seaman's manual, containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service, laws relating to the practical duties of master and mariners.