2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Manuscript book with “sail drawings and plans, tall folio, approx. 40 pp. manuscript entries. The book begins with mast and yard measurements for the ship Blondel of Newburyport. This is followed by 7 pages of patterns for all the sails on a full rigged ship, with dimensions given. There follow 14 pages of exercises in working lunars in 1863, 5 pages of sail plans for a schooner and a gundalow, 2 pages of lunars, 3 pages of deck and sail plan for a three masted vessel, then 4 pages of sail plans for “a new brig at Brown’s wharf owned by Capt. Langley & others in 1867”, and finally 2 more pages of lunars. The book got wet at some point in its career, and portions of a few of the plans are barely legible. Still, this is highly specific primary source information: such books rarely turn up any more. Binding broken.
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