NAVAL ARCHITECTS & MARINE ENGINEERS Vol 22 1914 RARE Franklin D. Roosevelt Item

Description: NAVAL ARCHITECTS & MARINE ENGINEERS Vol 22 1914 RARE Franklin D. Roosevelt Item POB#50872 TITLE: Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vol. 22 AUTHOR: Edited by Secretary... Article by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. PUBLISHER: New York: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. DATE: 1914 EDITION: Vol. XXII. 800 copies printed (Halter T-862) DESCRIPTION: xliii, 311 pages, 29 cm 81 plates, mostly photographic, some folding. One folding map plate. CONDITION NOTES: EX-LIBRARY. VERY GOOD Bookplate of the University of California (Berkeley) Engineering Library. Spine label, stamps on rights page, and perforated "Univ of California" on title page. Corners rubbed. Pages clean without marks, creases, or tears. All plates folded properly. Original endpapers, excellent page and cover attachment.BINDING: Brown Cloth tooled blind with gilt titles..Well illustrated quarto, an annual volume, with an extensive plate section at back of the volume, including many fold-out plans and charts..The issue features an historical essay written by a young Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32 years old), Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time. FDR's third appearance in book form. Halter T-862.His scholarly essay "Our First Frigates: Some Unpublished Facts About Their Construction" appears on pp. [139]-153 with plates 54-57 inclusive. It was presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society held in New York on December 11th, 1914 Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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