HOSTE, Paul. L'Art des Armées Navales, ou Traité des évolutions navales, Lyon: Anisson and Posuel, 1697, 2° [bound as usual with:] Théorie de la Construction des Vaisseaux, Lyon: Anisson and Posuel, 1697, 2°, 2 works in one volume, BOTH FIRST EDITIONS, 134 engraved plates in the first work, 11 folding engraved plates in the second, engraved headpieces and initials (lacking half title, deep tear to one plate, small stain to another, a few plates and leaves lightly browned, upper margins lightly dampstained, marginal tears), contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, somewhat rubbed, part of free endpaper excised), g.e., Scott bookplate. [Scott 165 & 166; Berlin Katalog 1446; Polak 4512]

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HOSTE, Paul. L'Art des Armées Navales, ou Traité des évolutions navales, Lyon: Anisson and Posuel, 1697, 2° [bound as usual with:] Théorie de la Construction des Vaisseaux, Lyon: Anisson and Posuel, 1697, 2°, 2 works in one volume, BOTH FIRST EDITIONS, 134 engraved plates in the first work, 11 folding engraved plates in the second, engraved headpieces and initials (lacking half title, deep tear to one plate, small stain to another, a few plates and leaves lightly browned, upper margins lightly dampstained, marginal tears), contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, somewhat rubbed, part of free endpaper excised), g.e., Scott bookplate. [Scott 165 & 166; Berlin Katalog 1446; Polak 4512]

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The first of these two works by Hoste, on naval tactics and the history of the French navy in the 17th century, is spectacularly illustrated (see illustration overleaf). The other is equally important as an early work work on the mechanical and hydrodynamical principles of naval architecture.

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