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BOUGUER, Pierre (1698-1758). Trait du navire, de sa construction, et de ses mouvemens. Paris: J. Chardon for Jombert, 1746.
4o (250 x 188 mm). 2 leaves errata and privilege at end, 12 numbered engraved folding plates, 4 engraved headpiece vignettes (the first with the arms of the dedicatee) by Chedel, woodcut title vignette, initials and tailpieces, typographic headpiece ornaments. (Occasional faint discoloration, dampstain to foremargins of the folding plates, minor small stains to S2-3 and 3E2.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers panelled wtih triple gilt fillet, azur fleuron tools at corners, at center the gilt blocked arms of the dedicatee Phlypeaux de Maurepas (Olivier 2265.1), spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges; buckram folding case.
Provenance: Bound for the dedicatee Jean-Frdric Phlypeaux, Comte de Maurepas et de Pontchartrain (1701-1781), Minister of State for the Department of the Marine. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by Maurepas, 1 page, 4to, Paris, 11 February 1740, to an unidentified correspondent, giving orders to release from prison a certain Duplessis.
FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY, of one of the first treatises on naval architecture to discuss the mathematics of shipbuilding, and the first of several useful works on naval architecture and navigation by Bouguer. The Comte de Maurepas sponsored the famous expedition to Peru of 1735-1744, undertaken by the Acadmie des Sciences in order to verify Newton's hypothesis of the flattening of the terrestrial globe in the polar regions. Bouguer was one of four members of the Academy, with La Condamine, Louis Godin and J. de Jussieu, who took part in the voyage (see lots 320, 578 and 579). Singer, Technology IV, p. 577; Norman 284.
4o (250 x 188 mm). 2 leaves errata and privilege at end, 12 numbered engraved folding plates, 4 engraved headpiece vignettes (the first with the arms of the dedicatee) by Chedel, woodcut title vignette, initials and tailpieces, typographic headpiece ornaments. (Occasional faint discoloration, dampstain to foremargins of the folding plates, minor small stains to S2-3 and 3E2.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, covers panelled wtih triple gilt fillet, azur fleuron tools at corners, at center the gilt blocked arms of the dedicatee Phlypeaux de Maurepas (Olivier 2265.1), spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges; buckram folding case.
Provenance: Bound for the dedicatee Jean-Frdric Phlypeaux, Comte de Maurepas et de Pontchartrain (1701-1781), Minister of State for the Department of the Marine. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by Maurepas, 1 page, 4to, Paris, 11 February 1740, to an unidentified correspondent, giving orders to release from prison a certain Duplessis.
FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY, of one of the first treatises on naval architecture to discuss the mathematics of shipbuilding, and the first of several useful works on naval architecture and navigation by Bouguer. The Comte de Maurepas sponsored the famous expedition to Peru of 1735-1744, undertaken by the Acadmie des Sciences in order to verify Newton's hypothesis of the flattening of the terrestrial globe in the polar regions. Bouguer was one of four members of the Academy, with La Condamine, Louis Godin and J. de Jussieu, who took part in the voyage (see lots 320, 578 and 579). Singer, Technology IV, p. 577; Norman 284.
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Please note that the illustration on page 61 is of lot 319, not lot 318 as stated in the catalogue.