Rare Books

A new and universal dictionary of the marine : being, a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases usually employed in the construction, equipment, machinery, movements, and military, as well as naval operations of ships : with such parts of astronomy, and navigation, as will be found useful to practical navigators : illustrated with a variety of modern designs of shipping, &c. together with separate views of the masts, yards, sails, and rigging : to which is annexed, a vocabulary of French sea-phrases and terms of art, collected from the best authorities