avec des Eclaircissemens & Démonstrations touchant l'Ouvrage intitulé: Architectura Navalis Mercatoria, etc. par Fréderic -Henri de Chapman
........traduit du Suédois, publié avec quelques notes & additions pour en rendre la lecture indépendante du grand ouvrage en planches du meme auteur, Architectura, etc. mentionné ci-dessus. par M.Vial du Clairbois....
by Fréderic-Henri de Chapman
Brest, Chez R.Malassis & Paris Chez Durand / Jombert, 1781.
4to. ppxxviii 220. 20 folding plates.
a little foxing, but generally in crisp, clean condition in a contemporary full patterned calf binding with gilt decoration to spine.
upper hinge a little weak. slight damage to top and foot of spine. scattered small holes to the plates, presumably worm derived, but as there is absolutely no other evidence of worming, it would suggest the damage occurred before the plates were bound into the book.
first published in Sweden in 1775, this is the second French edition
