The use of D. Henrion's proportion compass. Newly revised, corrected and increased in all its parts by several new and useful proportions by Sieur Deshays. A Paris chez Nicolas Bion, 1681; small in-8, period calf (restored back). Frontispiece (11ff.), 290 pages with figures (9ff.), table and sheet of mistakes to correct. A folding plate and many geometrical in-text figures (wetted).
First edition corrected and enlarged by Jean Deshays, the famous King's hydrographer in New France, who was the first to undertake the detailed hydrographic survey of the St. Lawrence River.
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