VIAL DU CLAIRBOIS, Honoré Sébastien. Essai Géométrique et pratique, sur l'Architecture Navale, a l'usage des gens de mer, Brest: R. Malassis & Paris: Durand, 1776, 2 volumes, 8°, 15 folding engraved plates (titles lightly browned, some plate margins soiled or browned with short tears, one or two plates lightly soiled), contemporary half calf (rebacked with old spines relaid, recornered, slightly worn), ownership inscription of Sam. Read, 22 July 1819, to plate volume, and stamp of the Institution of Naval Architects. [Polak 9433] (2)