Livro de traas de carpintaria com todos os modelos e medidas para se fazerem toda a navega‹o assi d'alto bordo como de remo traado por É.

Lisbon, Academia de Marinha, 1989.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (36.5 x 46.8 cm.), publisher's buckram. As new. (1 blank, 3, 3), 140 (10 folding, 2 blank, 1, 1 blank) ll. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Magnificent full-color facsimile reproduction of a profusely illustrated, unique manuscript written in 1616, now in the Biblioteca da Ajuda. Manuel Fernandes, the author of the Livro de traas de carpintaria, calls himself "an official of the same art." This shipbuilding ordinance, describing more than 2 dozen ships of various kinds, is the equivalent of a treatise on shipbuilding of the time. According to the introduction by RogŽrio S.G. d'Oliveira, President of the Academia de Marinha, it is "of greater archaeological value than the best contemporary foreign works."***