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A naval expositor, : shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea. Also all species that are received into the magazines, and on what services they are used and issued. Together with the titles of all the interior officers belonging to a ship, with an abridgment of their respective duties

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MDCCLV. [1755].
Call number: 495056
Creator: Blanckley, Thomas Riley(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd., May 1994.
Dimensions: 30 cm (4to)
Associated people: Meadows, William, (-1760,); Willock, Robert, (1698-1758,); Fourdrinier, Paul,
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