Marine - Lot 412

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Marine - Lot 412
Marine MOROGUES (Sébastien-François BIGOT, viscount of) Naval Tactics, or treatise on evolutions and signals. Paris, Le Guérin & Delatour, 1763. In-4, illustrated with 49 plates of tactics in fine. Copy on strong paper. Contemporary marbled fawn basane, spine ribbed and decorated, blond title, small bump to headband, gilt roulette on edges, red edges. First edition containing 74 pages dedicated to signals. The Viscount de Morogues created, in 1749, an academy of nautical sciences in Brest which later became the Académie de Marine.
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