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Timber merchant's guide ... : also, a table ... also, plates representing the figures of the principal pieces of timber, used in building a seventy-four gun ship

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1823.
Call number: 351842
Creator: Guillet, Peter(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 22 cm
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