Bidspirit auction | Duhamel Monceau - Architecture Navale

Duhamel Monceau - Architecture Navale - Duhamel du Monceau, (HL). Élémens de l'architecture navale, ou Traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux. Seconde Edition revue ... 2nd ed. Paris, Jombert, 1758. XLIV, 49, XXIX pp., pp. (51)-484 (as complete). With engraved title vignette, engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved vignettes and 23 folded copperplate engravings. 4°. Contemporary leather binding with floral wrought iron and red spine label. (Outer hinges cracked and partly restored). Nederl. Scheepvaartmuseum 748; Poggendorff I, 618. - Second enlarged edition of the work first published in 1752, one of the most important accounts of shipbuilding in the 18th century. Henri Louis Duhamel de Monceau was a co-founder of forest botany and Inspector General of the French Navy, and he investigated the suitability of various types of wood for shipbuilding. The plates of this richly illustrated handbook show construction plans, cross-sections, plan views, and detailed illustrations. - Wide-margined copy. - Slightly browned and foxed in places, frontispiece verso with an old inscription (slightly bleed-through).