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Verlag: Paris: Widow of André Knapen & Charles Antoine Jombert, 1745., 1745
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 180, xx, [4 leaves]. with half-title. 12 engraved plates. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary calf, gilt back (joints cracked & front joint holdiing only by cords, extremities worn, Franklin Institute bookplate & perforation stamp on title, 2 marginal repairs to title, some light foxing). [BOUND WITH:] SAVERIEN, [Alexandre]. La Mâture Discutée Et Soumise À De Nouvelles Loix. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xxx, [1 leaf]errata, 90, [2]. with half-title. 1 folding engraved plate. woodcut headpiece & initial. (perforation stamp in second last leaf). Paris: Chaubert, 1747. First Editions of two works on aspects of navigation, pilotage, and masting by French naval engineer, Alexandre Saverien. Much of the second treatise is directed against Pierre Bouguer, author of Traité du Navire (1746), Nouveau Traité de Navigation (1753), and De La Manoeuvre des Vaisseaux (1757), with whom Saverien carried on a celebrated dispute. NUC cites 2 copies of the first work, at the New York Public Library and the Franklin Institute, and none of the second. Polak 8672 & 8674.