[BOUGUER, Pierre] De la Mâture des Vaisseaux. Piece qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, proposé pour l'année 1727, Paris: Claude Jombert, 1727, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding engraved plates (lacks the folding table) [Scott 211; Polak 1047] [bound with:] Meditationes super problemate nautico, de implantatione malorum, quae proxime accessere ad praemium anno 1727 à Regia Scientiarium Academia promulgatum, Paris: Claude Jombert, 1728, 4°, 2 folding engraved plates [Scott 218] [and:] De la Mâture des Vaisseaux, piece qui a concouru à l'occasion du prix proposé l'an 1727 par Messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris: Claude Jombert, 1728, 4°, 3 folding engraved plates and one folding table [Scott 219], 3 editions in one volume, later half calf (recased, rubbed).

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[BOUGUER, Pierre] De la Mâture des Vaisseaux. Piece qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, proposé pour l'année 1727, Paris: Claude Jombert, 1727, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 5 folding engraved plates (lacks the folding table) [Scott 211; Polak 1047] [bound with:] Meditationes super problemate nautico, de implantatione malorum, quae proxime accessere ad praemium anno 1727 à Regia Scientiarium Academia promulgatum, Paris: Claude Jombert, 1728, 4°, 2 folding engraved plates [Scott 218] [and:] De la Mâture des Vaisseaux, piece qui a concouru à l'occasion du prix proposé l'an 1727 par Messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris: Claude Jombert, 1728, 4°, 3 folding engraved plates and one folding table [Scott 219], 3 editions in one volume, later half calf (recased, rubbed).

Lot Essay

The leading French authority on nautical science in the 18th century was Pierre Bouger (1698-1758), the son of a royal professor of hydrography. By the time he was 29, he had won three prizes for essays set by the Académie Royale des Sciences, the first of which was the above paper on the masting of ships.

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