CHAPMAN, Frederik Henrik af. Traité de la Construction des Vaisseaux, avec des eclaircissements et démonstrations touchant l'ouvrage intitulé Architectura navalis mercatoria, translated from the Swedish by Vial du Clairbois, Brest: R. Malassis & Paris: Durand and Jombert, 1781, 2 volumes, 4°, second edition in French, half title, 20 folding engraved plates separately bound (severe but clean tear to plate 18, thumb-soiling, continuous spotting), contemporary half calf (restored, extremities worn), half title with ownership inscription of William M. Rice, Portsmouth, 1816. [Scott 377; Brunet I, 1798; Polak 1605] (2)