Du Monceau (Henri-Louis Duhamel), Élémens de l'Architecture ...

Du Monceau (Henri-Louis Duhamel), Élémens de l'Architecture Navale, ou Traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux, second edition, Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1758, frontispiece, collating: xliv, 49, ii-xxix (tables), [51]-484pp, illustrated with 24 engraved plates over 23 folding sheets, copperplate and wood-engraved vignettes, head and tail-pieces, contemporary cat's paw calf, rebacked preserving almost all the contemporary gilt tooled spine and morocco lettering piece, red stained edges, marbled endpapers, 4to Provenance: 1) Francesco Maria Berio, marchese di Salza (1765-1820), Neapolitan man of letters and art collector; his armorial bookplate on recto pastedown. The majority of his library - including this volume - sold to 2) William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (1750-1823), for his son John, later 1st Earl Dudley (1781-1833); armorial bookplate below the former.

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