A treatise on ship-building and navigation in three parts : wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled : with the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector ... : also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts ... : with an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel ...

A treatise on ship-building and navigation in three parts : wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled : with the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector ... : also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts ... : with an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel ...

The second edition

London Printed for A. Millar ... 1765

[12], [3]-343, [5], iii, [1], 117, [3] p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm. (4to)

623.8203 M983, 1765

(OCoLC)04533165

91.1.271
Title (contd.): to which is now added a supplement, containing a translation of what M. Bouguer, another French author, has written on that subject : and M. Duhamel's Method for finding the center of gravity, with some remarks by the author ...
Signatures: [pi]2 a4 B-Z4 2A-2M4 2N-2Z2 3A-3G2 A1 B-I4 K2 L2(- L2) [chi]4 A-P
Each supplement has a separate title page.
For contemporary comment, see: Encyclopedie militaire (Oct. 1770), p. 88-89.
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