Lot n° 1368

Marine - BOUGUER, Pierre - Nouveau traité de navigation, contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage (...) Revu & abrégé par M. l'abbé de La Caille de la même Académie Royale des Sciences, &c. Avec figures en taille-douce. Paris, H. L....

Estimation : 500 / 500
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
Guerin & L. F. Delatour, 1760
8vo, cont. calf (scratch, sl. bumped corners), gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands (front joint sl. split., head & tail somewhat defect.), sp. edges, xxxii-352-[2]-23-[92] pp. (front endpage loose, a single minor stain). Very good copy.   New revised and summarized ed. (1st 1753) of Bouguer's (1698-1758) work on navigation and pilotage. Ill. with 13 folding pls of which 6 maps (the Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic & directions prevaling winds, the Northern and the Southern hemispheres (by Dheulland). With tables of logarithms at end. Armorial bookpl. Montboissier de Canilliac.
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