AN ESSAY ON THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE ANCIENTS.
Edinburgh: Printed for the author and sold also by John Blackwood, 1826. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 61. Illustrated with a double page frontispiece and 9 (of 10) full page engraved plates. Small tear to the frontispiece and small hole to D3, affecting a couple of letters. Item #14360
Howell (1788-1863) was a bookbinder and printer. He later opened a shop as a curiosity dealer and was an inventor and amateur dentist and doctor. Howell traces the evolution of ship building "from the first rude attempts when men adventured themselves upon a few branches bound together, as the Esquimaux of the present day, up to the unique first rate man-of-war of the British Navy. The object of this essay is merely an attempt to clear up a difficulty ... relating to the manner in which the ancients constructed their Polycrota or war-vessals. This was his first book.
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