BOUGUER (Pierre). New treatise on navigation containing the theory and practice of pilotage. Paris, Vve Desaint, 1781. In-8, [2] f., pp.VII-XXXII, 376 p., [49] f., pl., contemporary speckled tan basane, spine with 5 nerves, gilt title, ornamented caissons, speckled edges (flaws including 3 dull corners, upper jaw partly split, foot section uncovered; worms in margins not serious, browned pl.)
One of the last editions of this treatise by the king's hydrographer Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758), revised by the abbé de La Caille. It does not appear in the catalogue of the BnF.
The illustration consists of 13 copper-engraved folding plates: instruments, figures and maps, including celestial maps of the two hemispheres, and a planisphere of wind directions and compass variations, printed in two tones.
Provenance: Jesuit College of Metz, École Saint-Joseph de Lille (stamps, label).
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