The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms; Customs and Usages of the Merchant Service; Laws Relating to the Practical Duties of Master and Mariner
Boston: Thomas Groom & Co., 1857. Ninth Edition, revised and corrected. Black and white engraved plates. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [2 ads], [i-iv], v-viii, [ix-xiii], 14-225, [2 ads] pages.
The author of 'Two Years Before the Mast' drew upon his own hard-won experience at sea as well as his subsequent legal career to produce this most trusted, comprehensive, and readable guide to sailing square-rigged ships. This practical handbook covers everything from rigging and sail handling to discipline, navigation, cargo loading, and legal rights
Ref. ALBION p. 69; TOY 2074.
Fine. An exceptionally clean and tight copy in original publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles and gilt-stamped vignette of a ship on upper board, yellow endpapers. Shallow bumps to spine ends with a few light extremity rubs to binding. Gilt remains bright, hinges sound, interior clean and bright. A lovely copy.
Item #2033
Price: $300