Lot 238
Du Monceau, M. Duhamel
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
£375
Description
Elémens de l'architecture navale... Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert (Libraire du Roi pour l'Artillerie & le Genie), 1752. 4to, engraved frontispiece, 24 folding engraved plates on 23 sheets, contemporary calf, calf peeling and removed from some parts of spine, covers a little rubbed and soiled, slight dampstaining, closed marginal tear on page 199, plate 21 torn at join, occasional dust-soiling and spotting
Footnote
Provenance: Property of the Trustees of Lord Gretton