MARESTIER, Jean Baptiste. Mémoire sur les Bateaux à Vapeur des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1824, 2 volumes, 4° (text) and 2° (atlas), FIRST EDITION, 17 lithographs of early steampships and their machinery in the atlas (plates lightly spotted, titles lightly browned, title to atlas cleanly torn, margins a little frayed), modern boards and contemporary wrappers to the atlas (wrappers frayed), Scott bookplate. [Scott 559; Maggs Nautica 1467: "one of the most important works in the history of the steamship ... his work also describes the famous American schooners of the period"; Polak 6384: "un des plus importants ouvrages concernant l'histoire des bateaux à vapeur"; Sabin 44523] (2)