[Rarebooks] FS: Landmark Volume in the Literature of Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding, 1758

[Charles Agvent]

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, [Henri Louis]. ÉLÉMENS DE L'ARCHITECTURE NAVALE, OU 
TRAITÉ PRATIQUE DE LA CONSTRUCTION DES VAISSEAUX. Paris: Charles-Antoine 
Jombert, 1758. Second Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") bound in 
contemporary marbled calf leather with a gilt-decorated spine with 5 
raised bands and a gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, 
text block edges stained red; xliv, 484 pages. Illustrated with an 
engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, and 10 engraved chapter heading 
vignettes by Ozanne as well as 24 engravings on 23 folding plates. This 
spectacular training manual for the construction of ships was written by 
the founder of naval engineering and architecture at the Louvre in 1741 
and is considered a landmark volume in the literature of naval 
architecture and shipbuilding, identified as the first practical manual 
in the field. This Second Edition contains corrections and an additional 
tenth chapter and illustrations not in the First Edition. Some light 
fraying to a few edges of folding plates, one plate with a long closed 
tear with no loss. Light wear to the binding, a one-inch split to the 
top front joint. A clean, well-margined copy. Near Fine. (#019221)    
     $2,000.00

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