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Timber merchant's guide : also, a table, whereby, at one view, may be seen the solid and superficial measure of any square or unequal hewed logs or plank, from one to forty-seven inches ; also, plates representing the figures of the principal pieces of timber, used in building a seventy-four gun ship of the line, in standing trees

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1823.
Call number: 610823
Creator: Guillet, Peter(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last Trust, June 2022.
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Lovegrove, James,; Toy, John D.,; Stone, Henry,; Last, Jay T.,
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