Nouveau traité de navigation, contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage [...] Revu & abrégé par M. l'abbé de La Caille de la même Académie Royale des Sciences, &c. Avec figures en taille-douce.

8vo: xxxii-352-[2]-23-[1]-[96] pp.; 13 pl. (sm. paper strips pasted on title, some min. browning).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, red leather title label, marbled endpapers, red edges.

New revised and summarised edition (1st 1753) on navigation and piloting by the French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist and astronomer Bouguer (1698-1758), also known as "the father of naval architecture". Ill. with 13 folding engr. pl. of which 6 maps (the Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic and directions of prevailing winds, the Northern and the Southern hemispheres (by Dheulland)). With logarithm tables at end.
Ref. Polak 1055. - BnF. - COPAC.
Prov. Annotations at the end.