109. Vial du Clairbois (Honoré Sébastien) Traité Élémentaire de la Construction des Bâtiments de Mer..., 2 vol., half-titles, with dedication, Preface to vol.2 and Notes all bound at beginning of both volumes, Notes in vol.2 misbound, 39 folding engraved maps, some rather soiled and frayed at edges or folds, all linen-backed, a few later pencil annotations to text and plates, half-title in vol.1 and Oo in vol.2 with tear to fore-edge (crudely repaired with tape), ink inscription of Leon D’Emo of the New York Ship Model Society on verso of titles or half-titles and one or two plates, a few leaves with his faint ink stamp in margin, front free endpaper in vol.1 loose, later cloth, uncut, worn, one joint split, 4to, Paris, Magimel, An XIII 1805.
est. £400 – £600
Mr D’Emo remarks on how he found these volumes unbound in a New York bookshop in 1925; he found the work “extremely valuable in building a boxwood model of the “Sans Pareil”, a first-rate of 1760.”