LE GAIGNEUR. Le pilote instruit, ou nouvelles leçons de navi - Lot 93

LE GAIGNEUR. Le pilote instruit, ou nouvelles leçons de navigation, sans maître, à l'usage des navigants du commerce. Nantes, Brun, l'aîné, 1781. In-4, first edition illustrated with 9 folding plates. Complete with 115 plates of astronomical tables bound at the end of the book. Bound in full contemporary marbled basane, 5-ribbed spine, title page. (small wormholes, some traces of wetness, worn binding with loss of head and neck, a few wormholes in the spine). Joint : Les évangiles de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ. Paris, Dubochet et Cie, 1837. In-4, translation by Lemaitre de Sacy. Bound in period green half-maroquin, framed roulette on the boards, richly decorated smooth spine. (binding rubbed, corners worn, label glued to front cover).