80/3288 [Maritime history]. Yk, C. van. De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel, of evenredenheyd, in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd (...). Amst., Andries Voorstad (Delft) for Jan ten Hoorn, 1697, (14),354,(8)p., engr. frontisp., 21 (double-p.) engr. plates mostly by/ after J. and C. LUYKEN, contemp. vellum, folio.

- Sl. yellowed; title strengthened along outer margin and sm. portion of inner margin on verso. Vellum sl. warped; frontcover sl. stained.

= One of the two great 17th cent. Dutch works on shipbuilding (the other one being Witsen's Architectura Navalis). First edition, second issue (with the cancels **1 and **2 in which the author has replaced his comment on the 1690 edition of Witsen by a list of contemporary works on shipbuilding mainly in French and English. In this list the Architecture Navalis is ascribed to Samuel Pepys, who himself never wrote a book on the subject). Cat. NHSM, p.745; Landwehr, VOC 1109; Klaversma/ Hannema 1503; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 309; Bierens de Haan 5401. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.