PARIS, Edmond. Essai sur le Construction Navale des Peuples Extra-Europeens, Paris: A. Bertrand, [1841], 2 volumes, 2°, 133 plates, many tinted lithographs (preface leaves and some of text browned and very brittle with a number of tears and marginal loss, a few plates spotted and a number browned and brittle, some with paper repairs on verso, plates unbound as issued in modern cloth portfolio (text disbound); sold not subject to return. (2)