Les differens batimens de la mer oceanne, presentez a Monsieur de Vanolles, grand audiencier de France et tresorier general de la Marine
Contributors: Echeverria, Durand
Publisher: Chez Giffart rüe St. Jaques a Ste Therese
Published: 1709
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Boats and boating; Ships; Pictorial works
Other titles: Differens batimens de la mer Mediterranée.; Petits batimens de l'ocean.
Notes: Engraved title page.

Engraved title page "Petits batimens de l'ocean", p. 1, 3rd count, gives author as Gueroult and only date of publication as 1709.

Attributed to Pierre Jacques Guéroult du Pas by Polak.

A later edition printed with collective title "Recuëil des veuës de tous les differens bastimens de la Mer Mediterranée, et de l'ocean avec leurs noms et usages" printed Paris, chez Pierre Giffart, was issued in 1710. This edition is perhaps the first edition.

"Les differens batimens de la mer oceanne", p. 1-30, first count, consists of engraved title page and 29 numbered leaves of plates printed on recto only; "Les differens batimens de la mer Mediterranée", p. 1-30, 2nd count, consists of engraved title page with imprint "A Paris chez Giffart rüe St. Jaques a Ste Therese", and 29 numbered leaves of plates printed on recto only; "Petits batimens de l'ocean, faits par Gueroult. 1709. A.P.D.R.", p. 1-16, 3rd count, consists of engraved title page, on which the title has been printed within the sail of the ship, and 15 leaves of plates printed on recto only; title page of "Petits batimens de l'ocean" is counted not only as title page but as plate no. 1.

Ships depicted are those used for war, commerce, transport, ceremonies, and fishing.

All plates, except for engraved title pages, signed: "Gueroult fec[it]."

Polak, J.  Bib. maritime française (suppl.), 10244.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy gift by Barbara V. Echeverria from the estate of Durand Echeverria.