Maritime.- Shipbuilding.- Forfait (Pierre Alexandre Laurent) Traité Élémentaire de la Mature des Vaisseaux à l'usage des eleves de la marine, first edition, half-title, 24 folding engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, errata f., a few plates lightly browned, paper flaw in errata f with loss of the odd letter, without loss of sense, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with morocco label, [Polak 3522; Scott Coll. 410], a good copy, 4to, Paris, Clousier, 1788. ⁂ On the construction of masts and rigging. The author became Napoleon's first minister of the Navy.
Maritime.- Shipbuilding.- Forfait (Pierre Alexandre Laurent) Traité Élémentaire de la Mature des Vaisseaux à l'usage des eleves de la marine, first edition, half-title, 24 folding engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, errata f., a few plates lightly browned, paper flaw in errata f with loss of the odd letter, without loss of sense, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with morocco label, [Polak 3522; Scott Coll. 410], a good copy, 4to, Paris, Clousier, 1788. ⁂ On the construction of masts and rigging. The author became Napoleon's first minister of the Navy.
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