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Set an alertFirst edition (cf. Polak 2791).
Contemporary half purple calf binding, smooth spine darkened and decorated with gilt fillets, garlands and fleurons, marbled paper boards, hand-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, red edges. Corners rubbed. Period binding.
Small restored loss to the title page, two scuffs to the foot of the upper board.
The author, a former graduate of the École Polytechnique, was a professor of navigation.