An Inquiry into the Means which have been taken to Preserve the British Navy... from that Species of Decay, now denominated Dry-Rot
London: Winchester and Varnham, 1821. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. 164 pages. Contemporary midnight blue straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, rose-colored paper endleaves, morocco gilt inner dentelles, edges gilt. First edition. The dedication copy "to the Right Honorable Robert Viscount Melville, Baron Dunera, First Lord Commissioner of.....