The mahogany tree : its botanical characters, qualities and uses : with practical suggestions for selecting and cutting it in the regions of its growth, in the West Indies and Central America : with notices of the projected interoceanic communications of Panama, Nicaragua and Tehuantepec in relation to their productions, and the supply of fine timber for ship-building and all other purposes : with a map and illustrations, and an appendix containing the documents presented to the Lloyd's Committee of Registry, in favour of the uses of mahogany for the building of first-class vessels.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaloner and Fleming (Liverpool)

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahogany.

Canals, Interoceanic.

Shipbuilding--Equipment and supplies.

Shipbuilding.

Timber.

Canal--Panama.

Canal.

Panama Canal (Panama).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, [4]-117, [1] leaf (fold.), [9] leaves of plates (1 fold.) ) ill. (some col.), fold. map ;

Other Title:

Mahogany tree

Place of Publication:

Liverpool [England] : Printed by Rockcliff and Son, 1850.

Notes:

Signed (p. vi, 1st count): "Chaloner & Fleming, mahogany and timber brokers."

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 43873.

OCLC:

12