The boat-swains art, or, The compleat boat-swain : wherein is shewed a true proportion for the masting, yarding, and rigging of any ship whose length, breadth, and depth is known, with rules for the sizes and lengths of all sorts of rigging that belongs to any ship : also the use of an opening scale, that if the length of the main mast be put upon it with a pair of compasses, you may measure upon the scale the lengths and thickness of all the other masts and yards, and also the sizes, the lengths, and the numbers of fathoms of every size for the rigging of any ship, without altering the scale : also here is added a plain and easy rule for rigging any ship by the length of its own masts and yards / by Henry Bond.
| Author/creator | Bond, Henry |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for Richard Mount ..., 1699. |
| Description | [2], 31 p. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240952194 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | "The scale is made in brass or wood by Walter and John Henshaw near the Hermitage-Bridge." |
| General note | Half title page reads: The boat-swains art, or, The compleat boat-swain. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in the British Library. |
| References | Wing B3563 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1521:6) |
| Other title | Boat swains art. |
| Other title | Complete boat swain. |
| Stock number | CL0037000054 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |