Nouveau traité de navigation, contenant la théorie et la pratique du pilotage
By: Par M. Bouguer, de l'Acad̐emie Royale des Sciences, de la Soci̐et̐e Royale de Londres, & honoraire de l'Acad̐emie de Marine, ci-devant hydrographe du roi au Port de Croisic & au Havre-de-Grace. Revu & abrégé par M. l'abbé de la Caille de la même Académie Royales des Sciences, &c. Avec figures en taille-douce
Contributors: La Caille, Nicolas Louis de, 1713-1762
Publisher: Chez H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, rue S. Jacques, à S. Thomas d'Aquin
Published: 1760
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Pilots and pilotage; Nautical astronomy; Navigation; Logarithms
Notes: "Recueil des tables dressées a l'usage de la navigation", p. [1-2] and p. 1-23, 3rd and 4th counts, has divisional title page.

"Table de logarithmes": p. [2-97], 5th count, has divisional title page.

Includes 11 folded plates numbered I-XI and unnumbered folded celestial charts bound to face p. 140; the directions to the binder appear on p. xxxij.

Bouguer was chosen with Godin and La Condamine to carry out measurements in Peru of the meridian to determine the flattening of the earth, missions which were carried out from 1736 to 1744.

Signatures: a-b⁸ (a1 blank, a2, a3 versos blank) A-Y⁸ a*-p*⁴ q*² (q*2 blank)

Errata: p. xxix.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces.

Cf. Polak, J. Bibliographie maritime fraṅaise, 1053 (Paris, 1753 edition)

Purchase; 2016; 17-211.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Watson Fund.