The Naval dry docks of the United States. Illustrated with twenty-four fine engravings on steel.

2 parts in 1 vol., folio: [4]-125, 93-[1] pp. (some sl. dampstaining and spotting throughout).

Contemp. black buckram with central gilt element on front cover surrounded with blindst. decor. border, blindst. decor. on lower cover, flat gilt orn. spine, renewed endpapers.

First edition and description of the modes of constructing and working the Naval Dry Docks at New York (Brooklyn), Philadelphia, Boston, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Pensacola, and San Francisco. With complete histories and descriptions of the Granite Dry Dock in New York, the Floating Sectional Dry Dock, and the Floating Balance Dry Dock. Ill. with 24 steel-engraved pl.
Ref. Sabin 93148. - COPAC.