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Forfait, (Pierre Alexandre Laurent).

Traité élémentaire de la mâture des vaisseaux, à l'usage des élèves de la Marine.

Paris, Clousier, Imprimeur du Roi, 1788

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Year of publication
1788
Author
Forfait, (Pierre Alexandre Laurent).
Publishers
Paris, Clousier, Imprimeur du Roi
Keyword
SCIENCE:ENGINEERING,

Description

24 engraved folding plates. XL, 294 pp. 4to (260 x 195 mm). Contemporary full calf (rubbed, small defects to front hinge). Old ms. entries on title. Paris, Clousier, Imprimeur du Roi, 1788. First edition of a work by the Rouennais engineer and inventor (1752-1807), who won the gold medal at the Mantua Academy. Forfait held various official naval posts both before and after the Revolution, in which he was called upon to solve various hydraulic engineering problems. The present work deals with sea-going vessels and smaller ships. - Cat. NHSM, 754; Hoefer XVIII, 175. SCIENCE:ENGINEERING ;
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