[Rarebooks] fs: Souvenirs de Marine, Admiral Paris...

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(No. 11282 )  Pâris, [François Edmond] (1806-1893). SOUVENIRS DE MARINE. 
COLLECTION DE PLANS OU DESSINS DE NAVIRES ET DE BATEAUX ANCIENS OU MODERNES 
EXISTANTS OU DISPARUS AVEC LES ÉLÉMENTS NUMÉRIQUES NÉCESSAORES À LEUR 
CONSTRUCTION.
Grenoble: Editions des 4 Seigneurs, 1976. Reprint, Full cloth, Oblong folio, 
not paginated, Scaled drawings througout. Very good.
      Vice-Admiral Pâris's sweeping survey of historic ship and boat plans 
was originally published in the late 19th century in three large folio 
volumes, two parts per volume. This is a facsimile reprint of the third 
volume, limited to 1700 copies, and containing plates 241-360. Includes a 
wealth of naval architectural detail from ships around the world. This was 
noted naval architect and ship historian Thomas C. Gillmer's copy, with his 
bookplate on front pastedown. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with 
spine and upper board titled in gilt. Some very faint foxing to front 
endpapers and textblock edges, slight fading to cloth toward lower board 
extremities, lower fore corner tip of front free endpaper chipped off. Quite 
nice overall....... $350.00
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