Lot 115: SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM.

BRITAIN'S GLORY: OR, SHIP-BUILDING UNVAIL'D. BEING A GENERAL DIRECTOR, FOR BUILDING AND COMPLETING THE SAID MACHINES. .LONDON: THO. NORRIS, EBEN. TRACY, ARTHUR BETTESWORTH AND BENJ. PICKARD, 1717., FOLDING FRONTISPIECE WITH ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF GEORGE I, WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS, 6 ENGRAVED PLATES, .FRONTISPIECE DAMAGED AT EDGES AND LAID DOWN, SEVERAL LEAVES (INCLUDING TITLE-PAGE) REPAIRED IN GUTTER, A FEW SMALL HOLES IN QUIRES B-C, A FEW ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENGRAVINGS SHAVED, SOME OFFSETTING, SOME PAPER REPAIRS.
Ibid. The prices of labour in shipbuilding adjusted: or, the mystery of ship-building unveiled. London: D.L., 1717, woodcut illustrations, headpieces and initials, quires F, Nn and Pp damaged and repaired, lacking quires M and Oo, Rrr1 defective

First editions, 2 volumes, folio (327 x 210mm.), uniform near-contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, red edges, extremities rubbed; sold not subject to return

English Maritime Books 3488

5th Earl of Rosebery, armorial bookplates; Barnbougle Castle catalogue, inkstamps