Naval expositor, shewing all the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea : also all species that are received into the magazines, on what services they are used and issued for with their description : together with the names of all the inferior officers belonging to a ship, with an abridgment of their respective dutys, 1732 / by T.B.

1 v. (84 p.) ; 29 cm.

English

Ex libris James Hope. Purchased from Sotheby's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008.

Thomas Riley Blanckley was Clerk of the Survey at Portsmouth and was made Commissioner of the Victualling Office in 1746. His Naval Expositor, first printed in 1750, was the first illustrated maritime dictionary in the English language.

Manuscript, illustrated, in a copperplate hand, of Thomas Riley Blanckley's alphabetically arranged maritime dictionary, first published in 1750. The illustrations are done in colored pen and wash. Both text and illustrations vary somewhat from the first published edition.

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Thomas Riley Blanckley, Naval Expositor. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Thomas Riley Blanckley, Naval Expositor. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.