LEVER, DARCY. The Young Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, A Key to the Leading of Rigging, and to Practical Seamanship. 110 full-page engraved illustrations on 55 leaves. x, [2], 120 pages. 4to, 262x210 mm, contemporary tree calf, rebacked with endpapers renewed, front cover detached; text toned, moderate mostly marginal browning on plates, scattered stains, old signatures and vertical crease on title, repaired clean tear in plate between pages 52 and 53, upper outer corner torn off rear free endpaper. Front cover stamped "JOSEPH SYKES / H. M. SHIP WARSPITE / OCT. 13. 1809," his identically worded inscription on front free endpaper. first edition. Leeds: Thomas Gill for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme et al. in London, 1808