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L'architecture Navale avec Les Routier des Indes Orientales et Occidentales 1687 - F. Dassie
Very rare!
The original version of this book was published in Paris in 1687 - if this were an original it would be worth thousands. It isn't. It is a high quality reproduction, professionally bound in blue hardcovers, but still very hard to find. A fascinating artefact for maritime historians and collectors.
Although perhaps not the first, Dassié's work is almost certainly the first such work written by a professional in the field, and framed in such a way as to be of practical assistance to fellow shipbuilders. Dassié is a somewhat obscure figure. He was apparently born in Normandy, and lived and worked at various times in both Le Havre and Rouen. On the title page he is styled "C.R.", or"chanoine régulier", a canon regular, of the Order of Saint-Ruf, an Augustinian order named for the first bishop of Avignon, with various sources describing him as master shipbuilder to the king at Le Havre, and to the coast guard at Toulon. As usual the work is bound together with Le Routier des Indes Orientales et Occidentales, which offers a compilation of 26 navigations into the East and West Indies based on Dutch and Portuguese sources.
WEIGHT - 1.02kg
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