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128 pages. Numerous full-page plates, of rigging, knots, sails, cables, etc. (see accompanying photos). Original 3/4 leather binding, black pebbled cloth boards, gilt lettering ("Sheet Anchor") on the spine. This copy was variously owned (and presumably employed on ship, hence the damage?) by ? Rybus of the "Sea Serpent," New York (signed on title page), by First Lieut. J. W. Congdon of the U. S. Revenue "Lincoln," Pacific Coast, 1873 (Intro page), and the same J. W. Congdon promoted to Captain in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (front free end page). Fair condition: the binding is about very good with some soil to bottom corner of the front board and some light edge wear; the title page has a large section clipped away top right corner, has some heavy staining plus a tear that was repaired from the rear some time ago; there is occasional foxing throughout and some faint evident of a moisture stain at the top of the last 20 or so leaves.

Quarto, engraved title-page and 114 engraved plates, two folding; later half red roan. The classic and generously illustrated (a plate to every page of text) guide to practical seamanship, and particularly to rigging, here in a specially arranged American edition. The editor, George Blunt, explains that thirty-four years earlier, "his vocation then being upon the deep", he had used an English edition of Lever's Sheet Anchor. Modern changes in rigging have been included, and the new material includes Tables on Rope, Canvas, Guns, Spars, Clippers, and Forbes's New Rig. . Some moderate browning of the preliminary leaves, a little foxing throughout, some regular wear to extremities of the bindings.