A MERCHANT SHIPBUILDER'S MANUSCRIPT DESIGN BOOK, CIRCA 1785

a comprehensive manual to ship building by James Maw, 114 ff., written in a large legible hand, numerous diagrams, many full page, a fish and some other ornaments coloured grey, contemporary vellum, ownership inscriptions of Maw down to his great great grandson, D.B. Ramsbottom, s.n., 1783-85; together with another volume

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An extremely rare late 18th century manuscript guide to shipbuilding, describing (inter alia) ‘of measuring boards or planks’, ‘timber’, ‘masts’, 'windlass', tonnage of ships’, 'cleats’, 'bitts and cheeks' and 'Haruschole' and numerous other aspects of ship building. Despite the dates given above, the last page (illustrating a crane) reads, in Maw’s hand, ‘Scarborough July 27th, Friday 1804, this crane was first used for lifting Oak Timber at Mr John Tindall’s, Ship Builder'. Also, in the volume, are several names of ships and their captains.