1788 Rare English Navigation Military Beautiful Plates
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1788 Rare English Navigation Military Beautiful Plates Picture(s) and Description:
L O N D O N:Printed for S. HOOPER, No. 212, High Holborn, oppofite Southampton Street, Contemporary tree calf, joints cracked but hinges light foxing to title, light damp stain to later plates, final plate slightly more so and with small closed tear but with no loss, overall a very good wide margined copy in a handsome eighteenth century tree calf binding. A quarto volume, it measures approximately 27cm (10") x 21.5cm (8") x 3.5cm (1"). Pagination pp. vi, viii, [8], vi, 308, [1], (vi bound out of sequence but present), text complete but lacks the errata leaf, 13 fine engraved plates (6 of which are large folding plates).
Bourd de Villehuet's Le manoeuvrier, was first published in France, where it received the glowing approbation of the Acadmie Royale des Sciences, and was shortly after translated into English and into Russian. The English edition of 1788, translated by Jean-Nicolas, chevalier de Sauseuil, was expnaded into a handsome quarto volume, and includes additional text and large plates by an unnamed British naval officer. His contribution includes the superb plate I, as well as plates VII, VIII, IX & X, of Evolutions, which illustrates the order of retreat, i.e. the formation to be adopted by a squadron or fleet flying from the enemy. The ships in this case are a convoy; the protected merchant ships are shown between the two arms of the shielding V-formation of men of war. The Manoeuverer was dedicated by de Sauseuil to the Duke of Clarence (later William IV), whose service in the Royal Navy and interest in nautical matters earned him the sobriquet "The Sailor Prince" (Kings College Library).
CONTENTS IN BRIEF, On the Theory of Working Ships at Sea.The Theory applied to Practice; or a Demonftration of the evolutions of a Ship.Various Obfervations on the Marine. On Naval Evolutions and Signals.
A very handsome quarto FIRST EDITION of an superb work, with fine copperplate engravings.
