Rare set of sailing directions for ‘Le Neptune Oriental’

By After DE MANNEVILLETTE, 1775

[Instructions sur la Navigation des Indes Orientales et de la Chine] [bound with] Supplément au Neptune Oriental.

Maritime & Military

Author: After DE MANNEVILLETTE
Publication place: [Paris & Brest
Publisher: Chez Dezauche
Publication date: 1775] and 1781.
Physical description: Two volumes in one, 4to, (215 by 175mm), [2] (of [4]), lviii, 574, [14], xv, [1] pages, lacks title to first work, marginal dampstaining throughout with traces of mold at end of Supplément, contemporary half sheep, worn, bottom portion of spine painted black, cover corners damaged.
Inventory reference: 12623

Notes

First editions of a volume of sailing directions published to accompany the 1775 enlarged edition of the author’s nautical atlas of Africa and Asia, Le Neptune Oriental, and a supplement containing additions and corrections.