39. Forfait (Pierre Alexandre Laurent) Traité Élémentaire de la Mâture des Vaisseaux, à l’usage des élèves de la marine, half-title, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, 24 folding engraved plates, one or two ink corrections in contemporary hand, a little browned and damp-stained at upper outer corner slightly affecting plates, title and first few leaves also a little wormed at corner, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, rubbed, corners a little worn, [Polak 3522; Scott Coll. 410], 4to, Paris, Clousier, 1788.
est. £300 – £400
Concerning the construction of masts.