Détail sur la navigation aux côtes de Saint-Domingue et dans ses débouquemens. - Détail particulier pour la carte de la Gonave, ajoutée en 1788 au Pilote de l'Isle de Saint-Domingue[Details on Navigation along the Coasts of Saint-Domingue and in its Channels. – Particular Details for the Chart of La Gonâve, added in 1788 to the Pilote de l’Isle de Saint-Domingue]
First edition for each of the volumes.
Contemporary full mottled fawn sheep binding, spine with five raised bands, tooled in gilt with alternating anchors and fleurs-de-lis, joints split and restored at head and foot, burgundy shagreen title-piece with a small angular loss, spine ends trimmed, gilt arms stamped at the centre of the covers, red edges, corners bumped, contemporary binding.
2 ff.n.ch., 81 pp. Sabin 12235. Polak 1655 records this work from the Maurice Chamonal catalogue no. 31.
Bound after: Cyprien-Antoine de Lieudé de Sepmanville: "Détail particulier pour la carte de la Gonave, ajoutée en 1788 au Pilote de l'Isle de Saint-Domingue", printed in Paris by the Imprimerie royale in 1788 (10 pp). This piece is often found bound after Puységur’s "Débouquemens".
Cf. Polak 6033. Not in Sabin.
The pages of the second text are marginally sunned.
Copy bearing the royal arms stamped at the centre of the covers.
