Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BLONDEL DE SAINT-AUBIN, GUILLAUME. Trigonométrie Géométrique, Astronomique, et Maritime . . . Dernière Édition. 65, [1], [180], 5, [6], 9, [1], [282], 12, [38] pages, including publisher's 4-page catalogue of books and nautical charts at end, and final blank (used as rear pastedown). 12mo, contemporary vellum; bottom edge of 2A*3.4 ragged, slightly affecting text, minor paper corrosion in blank upper outer corners in second half of volume, light dampstaining in blank lower margins toward end. Le Havre: P. J. D. G. Faure, 1760

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Scarce edition of a manual of applied trigonometry for navigational use originally published in 1680, containing extensive logarithm and other tables. Polak, Bibliographie Maritime Française 888 (giving variant collation).