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naval engineering
Élémens de l'architecture navale, ou traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux. 2me edition revue, corrigée & augmentée par l'auteur.
Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1758.
4to. Later mottled calf. With engraved frontispiece, 10 engraved vignettes after Nicolas Ozanne and 24 engravings on 23 folding plates. XLIV,484 pp. First published in Paris in 1752. - The first training manuel for aspiring naval constructors written by the founder of the school for students of naval engineering and architecture at the Louvre in 1741. - (Small library-stamp on title-page). - A fine copy of this first practical manual on naval architecture.
Cat. NHSM II, p.748; Polak 2860: cette seconde édition est plus recherchée, elle comporte le chapitre X, qui ne figure pas dans la première.
4to. Later mottled calf. With engraved frontispiece, 10 engraved vignettes after Nicolas Ozanne and 24 engravings on 23 folding plates. XLIV,484 pp. First published in Paris in 1752. - The first training manuel for aspiring naval constructors written by the founder of the school for students of naval engineering and architecture at the Louvre in 1741. - (Small library-stamp on title-page). - A fine copy of this first practical manual on naval architecture.
Cat. NHSM II, p.748; Polak 2860: cette seconde édition est plus recherchée, elle comporte le chapitre X, qui ne figure pas dans la première.
€ 2.750
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