Types de calculs de navigation et d'astronomie nautique, accompagnés de renvois expliquant la manière d'exécuter ces calculs dans chaque cas particulier, à l'usage des candidats aux grades de capitaine au long-cours ou de maître au cabotage, et de tous les marins du commerce

First 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.