Lot Details
Lot 1106
MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM An Essay on the Preservation of Shipwrecked Persons.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812. First edition. Early boards, rebacked, later blue gilt lettered jacket. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (24 x 14 cm); 94 pp., errata leaf at end, in text illustration, uncut. Contemporary signature of a signal station master to upper margin of title, later gift inscription to front blank, faint old stain to least two leaves, minor spotting.
Manby developed the "Manby Mortar" in which a shot carrying a line could be shot from the shore to a wrecked ship (depicted on the title page). Manby is best remembered though as the inventor of the fire extinguisher.
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