[Travel - Navy]. FORFAIT (Pierre Alexandre Laurent). Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la marine, composé & publié, d'après les ordres de Monseigneur le Maréchal de Castries, Ministre & Secrétaire d'État au Département de la Marine.
Paris, chez Clousier, 1788.
In-4°, marbled basane, spine ribbed and decorated, red edges (period binding).
ORIGINAL EDITION intended for the students of the Navy, with the description of different forms of sails, the way in which the masts are fixed, the woods to make masts, the Art of the mast... Illustrated with 24 DEPLIANT PLATES, engraved by Benard. Binding a little rubbed, 2 jaws cracked, rare foxing (Polak, 3522).
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