SCHOKKER, H.W. [and John W. GRIFFITHS].
Handboek voor de kennis van den scheepsbouw, voornamelijk met het oog op het Amerikaansche stelsel, naar de geschriften van John W. Griffiths en andere bronnen, ... Met eenen atlas van 60 [=69] platen.
Amsterdam, Kraay brothers, 1861. 2 volumes. Large 4to (32 x 25 cm). With a chromolithographed view of the ship Nightingale as frontispiece, 2 folding tables, and 8 white on black lithographed illustrations and numerous tables in text. Further with 69 white on black lithographed plates (numbered as 60: I-LX) in the atlas volume, lithographed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem. Contemporary half morocco, gold-tooled spine. XI, [1 blank], 805, [1 blank] pp. text
€ 850
First and only edition of an extensive and well-illustrated Dutch manual on shipbuilding, according to the title-page based on the works of the American naval architect John W. Griffiths (1809-1882) but actually for the most part directly translated from Griffiths's well-known Treatise on marine and naval architecture, or, theory and practice blended in ship building, first published in 1850. Also the black on white plates are copied, but of very high quality, making it an attractive Dutch translation.
The plates volume foxed, but not visible in the images. Spines rubbed. Good copy. Bruzelius, p. 203; Cat. NHSM, p. 736; cf. Bruzelius, p. 171 (Griffiths's manual).
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