A Description of the Sights, or, Instruments for pointing guns proposed by Major general William Congreve, for the Use of the Navy, and now adopted in that Service. With the Account of that Practise made with them on board H.M.S. Liffey. To which is ...

London, Whiting, 1819. Royal8vo. Original blank boards. Scratches to spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps to foot of title-page. VI(7-)55 pp., 2 textillustrations, 3 engraved plates (one folding). One plate with scattered brownspots. On good paper.

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Exceedingly scarce. This second edition was published a year after the first (1818).