[Rarebooks] FS: The first scientifically based treatise on naval architecture. Paris: 1746

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(MARITIME) Bouguer, Pierre. TRAITE DU NAVIRE, DE SA CONSTRUCTION, ET DES SES 
MOUVEMENS. Paris: Chez Jombert. 1746. First edition. 4to. xl,682,(4)pp. 
Illustrated with a title-page woodcut vignette, 2 copper engraved headpieces and 12 
copper engraved folding plates at back (4 neatly reinforced at fore-margin). 
Rebound in antique style, in blind tooled 1/2 calf, morocco spine label, over 
boards. A wide margined copy, some gnawing at bottom blank fore-corner, text 
unaffected.     $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
“First edition of the first treatise on naval architecture written on a 
scientific basis.” Horblit sale, 153. Bouguer (1698-1758) was the first to apply 
mathematical principles to shipbuilding in order to calculate displacement and 
stability.

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