FORFAIT, Pierre Alexandre Laurent.
Traité élémentaire de la mature des vaisseaux, a l'usage des élèves de la marine; ... Seconde édition, ... considérablement augmentée ... Suivi d'un mémoire sur le système de construction des mâts d'assemblage en usage dans les ports de Hollande ...
Paris, Bachelier (back of half-title: printed by De Fain), 1815. 4to. With 25 engraved folding plates and with several tables folded because they exceed our copy's margins. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine. 16, 340, [2] pp.
€ 950
Second, enlarged and revised edition, of an extensive work on masting and rigging, by the French naval architect Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait (1752-1807), later Minister of the Navy. It was first published in 1788, and for the present second edition revised by E. Willaumez and enlarged with a new plate and a chapter on the construction of masts in the Netherlands by M. Rolland.
Very good copy, with only a few occasional spots. Bruzelius, p. 108; Cat. NHSM, p. 754; Polak 3522; Scott Coll., 519; not in Cole Library.
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