Architectura Navalis Mercatoria – classic 18th-century ship plans

Architectura Navalis Mercatoria – ship plans for modelers and sailing enthusiasts

This Dover Publications book is an album of classic construction drawings of 18th-century sailing vessels. It contains detailed ship plans on which old merchant and war ships were built, so it is a valuable source of information for modelers, reenactors and collectors of maritime literature.

What you will find inside

• hull plans and layouts of the individual levels of vessels,
• drawings with side, front and top views,
• proportions and construction divisions that help recreate the old art of shipbuilding,
• high-quality reproductions of historic plates in a large format.

Who it is for

The book is useful for people building sailing ship models from scratch, planning their own scale drawings and anyone interested in the history of maritime technology. The large format makes it easier to examine details, and the illustrations can be used as inspiration when creating models.

Specifications

The publication is in English, but the drawings are its core, so using it does not require advanced knowledge of the language.

These are excellent model-making plans, support for sailing ship modeling, with ship construction drawings and knowledge of naval architecture.

The edition covers sailing ship modeling, ship construction drawings and naval architecture.