Details
BOUGUER, Pierre. Traité du Navire, de sa Construction et de ses Mouvemens, Paris: C. A. Jombert, 1746, 4°, FIRST EDITION, wide margins, 12 folding engraved plates, engraved headpieces by Chedel (occasional light browning or spotting), contemporary marbled calf (neatly rebacked and recornered, old spine relaid. [Norman 284: "the first treatise on naval architecture written on a scientific basis"; Polak 1050; Scott 256]
Provenance
Copious manuscript annotations which though attributed to Bouger in the Scott catalogue are in another contemporary hand; there are also a few minor textual amendments in a second hand which may be Bouger's. Scott Library Collection bookplate.