Traité Élémentaire de la Construction des Vaisseaux - Vial du Clairbois

Vial du Clairbois, M.
Paris, chez Clousier, 1787
a l'usage des éleves de la marine, composé & publié, d'apres les orders de Monseigneur le Maréchal D Castries, Ministre & Secrétaire d'État au Départment de la Marine

Paris, chez Clousier, 1787

4to. pp[iii] 308 + 20 large folding plates.

some staining to the plates, quite severe to the last few, and some carelessly folded. occasional staining elsewhere, but generally a good clean copy in a contemporary full calf binding with some wear to the spine and corners

although this volume is complete in itself, a second volume was published in 1805