The boatswains art, or, The comp[l]ete boat-swain
Subtitle: wherein is shewed a true proportion for the masting, yarding, and rigging of any ship whose length, breadth, and depth is known, with rules for the sizes and lengths of all sorts of rigging that belongs to any ship : also the use of an opening scale, that if the length of the main mast be put upon it with a pair of compasses, you may measure upon the scale the lengths and thickness of all the other masts and yards, and also the sizes, the lengths and the number of fathoms of every size for the rigging of any ship, without altering the scale : also here is added a plain and easie rule for rigging any ship by the length of its own masts and yards
By: by Henry Bond ..
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1521:5
Publisher: Printed by W. Godbid for William Fisher ... and Benjamin Hurlock ...
Published: 1670
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microfilm
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Masts and rigging; Naval architecture
Other titles: The boatswains art; The complete boat swain
Notes: "The scale is made in brass or wood by Joseph Hone on Tower-Wharf."

Reproduction of original in the British Library

Wing B3561

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1521:5)

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