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Lot 16

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MOROGUES (SEBASTIAN-FRANCOIS BIGOT DE) Tactique navale, ou traité des Evolutions et des Signaux, FIRST EDITION, Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1763

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MOROGUES (SEBASTIAN-FRANCOIS BIGOT DE) Tactique navale, ou traité des Evolutions et des Signaux, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved vignette on dedication leaf, 49 engraved plates, contemporary calf, spine gilt-tooled with red morocco label in compartments, spine worn with some loss to head and label, 4to (250 x 200mm.), Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1763

Footnotes

First edition of this important work listing in detail the night and day signals used by the navy.

Provenance: John Augustus, Lord Hervey (1757-1796); Andrew Christian Currey, bookplates.

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