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Bowden.Treatise on Dry Rot,1815+

Bowden (Ambrose) A Treatise on Dry Rot...the nature and causes of that disease in ships...,

half-title, folding hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 1815 bound with Chapman (William) A Treatise...on the Preservation of Timber...in ships and buildings, 181, together 2 works in 1 vol. ? McWilliam (Robert) An Essay on the Origin and Operation of the Dry Rot, presentation copy from the author inscribed at head of title, 1818 ? George (John) The Cause of Dry Rot Discovered, 4 folding lithographed plates, 1829, some soiling, all ex-library copies with stamps, contemporary half calf, the first two rebacked in morocco, rubbed, the last worn with spine defective and uppr cover detached, 8vo & 4to(3)