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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.
- 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.
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