Author: Witsen, Nicolaes.
Title: Architectura navalis et regimen nauticum, ofte Aaloude en hedendaagsche scheeps-bouw en bestier [...].
Description: Te Amsterdam, Ter Drukkerye van Pieter en Joan Blaeu, 1690 [reprint Leiden, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis, ca. 1971]. 2 vols in 1. [18],625,[3] pp. B./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (blind stamped blue cloth with silver lettering on front cover & spine), d./j. 4to. - Spine very sl. discol. (Monumenta nautica historica selecta, no. 2). - Very good copy.Reprint of the very rare second edition of Witsen's Architectura navalis [...]. - So far, only five or six original copies of the second edition are known.

Keywords: Navigation Shipbuilding Historical ships Scheepvaart Scheepsbouw Historische schepen