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First edition.
Contemporary limp parchment binding. Smooth, unlettered spine. Brown stains on both boards, more extensive on the upper board. Binding detached from upper board. Tears to the lower margin of leaf li.
Complete set of navigation tables (latitudes, moon, winds, ports...), with 64 pages explaining these tables.
Fifth edition of the "New edition, enlarged with the Description of all new Monuments, Buildings & other Curiosities, with the changes made over the past approximately twenty years," to which is joined a supplementary volume by the same author, likewise printed in 1771, drawn from the "latest edition." The first work is thought to have been that of Claude-Marin Saugrain, before being taken up by Georges-Louis Le Rouge.
A complete copy with all 44 engravings, some folded, such as the map of France, of substantial size. It features the Bastille fortress, twenty-eight years before its fall, as well as the château of Saint-Cloud, still standing.