[Instructions sur la Navigation des Indes Orientales et de la Chine] [bound with] Supplément au Neptune Oriental.
[Paris & Brest,
Chez Dezauche,
1775] and 1781.
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.
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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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Jarichs’ Solution to the Longitude Problem
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Miniature map of Japan
Views of Kyoto
Nagasaki
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