Architectura Navalis Mercatoria 1768 (Architecture of Ships)

Description

Drawings of different seafaring ships. This is the most important work of naval architecture of the eighteenth century, with detailed and attractive plans for many different kinds of naval vessels. Published in the very year of the sailing of Cook's Endeavour, and just two decades before the First Fleet, it provides an extraordinary summary of contemporary ship-building techniques. Original drawings were done by Fred H. Chapman for Prince Carl of Sweden in 1768. Pages numbered in Roman Numerals