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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Trait� �l�mentaire de la M�ture Des Vaisseaux, � l'Usage Des �l�ves de la Marine. Book.
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Published by Historia Nautica. San Remo, Italy. ., 1979
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Add to basketNumbered edition limited to 1000 copies (No. 644). Translated from the 2nd French edition (revised by Etienne Willaumez) of 1815, by G. Santi-Mazzini. XXI, 230, (6 Index) PP with 60 tables, plus 25 b/w plates on full page (24 plates with 190 figures and 1 plate with 11 figures with . Cloth cover, illustrated vignette on front co…ver, gilt title on front cover and spine. Italian text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 31.8 x 21.5. Treatise on the masting of ships and vessels. (Traité de la Mâture pour les Elèves de la Marine).
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Substantial volume dealing with early naval construction of masts. 230pp., xxi, c.20 plates at rear.Italian text. Some correction/amendment sheets added, large format, blue cloth, gilt. No 787 of 1000. Very good condition, name to tile page. Please confirm shipping costs due to weight.
More imagesTraite Elementaire de la Mature des Vaisseaux, a l'usage des eleves de la Marine ; par Forfait. Seconde edition, revue, corrigee et considerablement augmentee.
FORFAIT, Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent (1752-1807) ; WILLAUMEZ, E?tienne [Joseph].
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Add to basket4to. XVI, 340, [2] pp. 25 engraved plates (1 folding). Modern period-style quarter brown calf, gilt-stamped maroon spine label, original marbled boards. Very good copy. Second edition considerably expanded. The first edition was issued in 1788. This is considered the author's most important work. The title loosely translates as:… Elementary Treatise on the Maturation of Vessels, for use by Naval Cadets. / Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait pursued brilliant studies at the college in Rouen, where he won prizes in mathematics and hydrography. He was admitted, at barely twenty years old, into the naval engineering corps, thanks to an exception, as this corps at that time only admitted members of the nobility. / Sent to Brest in 1773, he served there as a naval construction engineer until 1783, when he held the same position in Cádiz under the Count d'Estaing. Recalled to France when the government decided to establish regular shipping services for its colonies using steamships to carry goods and a large number of passengers, he found the solution to the problem by building vessels that perfectly fulfilled the intended purpose. The ship designs he provided at that time have remained standard models. / Upon his return in 1791, he was elected deputy for Seine-Inferieure to the Legislative Assembly, a position he held until 1792, and gave a significant boost to shipbuilding. At the end of the Legislative session, he returned to Le Havre to resume his work until France conquered Belgium and the Netherlands. Sent to these two countries to examine their coastlines, he advised them to establish a naval port in Antwerp. / In 1796, the Directory commissioned him to explore the course of the Seine from Le Havre to Paris, with the aim of ascertaining the possibility of navigating upstream with ships of a certain size, a possibility he demonstrated by anchoring at the foot of the Pont Royal. In a report addressed to the Naval Commission, he recorded all the details relating to the methods used to lower and raise the masts while passing under the bridges and outlined the improvements proposed to facilitate the supply of the capital using this river. / Appointed to the Ministry of the Navy as a commissioner in 1798, he prepared the fleet for a raid on England during the Consulate. After the coup of 18 Brumaire, Napoleon Bonaparte appointed him Minister of the Navy, but he resigned in 1801. Replaced by Decres, he joined the Council of State. He was subsequently appointed inspector of the flotilla intended to intervene against the British, and maritime prefect in Le Havre and Genoa. / He was a member of the Institute, mathematics and physics section of the Academy of Marine, and director of the port of Le Havre. He was made a commander of the Legion of Honour in 1801. / He also wrote in Latin and received a prize in 1773 for a memoir written in that language on the dredging of rivers and navigable canals. His full-length portrait is placed in the main hall of Rouen's town hall. To honor his name, the Imperial Navy, and later the National Navy after 1870, christened a steam aviso "Forfait," which was sunk in 1875 by a collision during a naval exercise off Corsica with the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (spur-mounted). REFERENCES: Querard III, 163. Brunet 8479.
More imagesDescription de cercles ou de couronnes de differentes couleurs autour de la lune, observes le 4 pluviose an 7; Observation du passage de Mercure sur le disque su Soleil le 18 floreal de l'an 7; Second Memoire sur la constitution physique des couches de la colline de Montmartre et des autres collines correspondantes; Extrait d'un Memoire sur la Marine de Venise, in Memoires de l'Institut National des Sciences et Arts, Tome V
Charles Messier, Nicolas Desmarest, Pierre Alexandre Forfait
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pp130-135, pp177-183, pp16-54 and pp. 213-349, with plates, some of which folding plates. in 260 & 447pp. With other works on science. Bound in a period institutional binding. Boards a little worn, but sound. Internally, first hinge cracked, otherwise tight and clean.
More imagesPublished by l'imprimerie de Clousier, 1802
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. "l'imprimerie de Clousier | Paris An X (1802) | 12.5 x 20 cm | Relié | Édition originale de ces observations et propositions de réformes sur la Marine. Reliure en plein veau fauve raciné, dos lisse orné de faux-nerfs et de motifs décoratifs dorés, pièce de titre de chagrin rouge, mors un peu frottés, plats cer…nés de fines roulettes dorées, quelques épidermures et manques de peau en pied des plats, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, coins émoussés, toutes tranches dorées, reliure de l'époque. Pierre-Alexandre Forfait (1752-1807) fut ministre de la Marine de novembre 1799 à Octobre 1801. Forfait et Bonaparte s'étaient rencontrés à Venise aux alentours de 1798, et c'est lui qui « forma » le futur Empereur à la guerre maritime que Napoléon allait mener contre l'Angleterre. Dans cet opuscule, il décrit en ces termes les Anglais « ces dominateurs des mers ne donneront jamais le temps nécessaire pour recréer et former une marine par les moyens ordinaires, la navigation marchande ou la pêche Comptez qu'ils vous déclareront toujours la guerre, ou vous la feront sans la déclarer, avant que vos forces navales aient pu atteindre son degré de développement qui puisse les inquiéter ». Le plan du 21 juillet 1803, lors duquel la flotille doit agir sans le soutien de la Marine, montre bien que les idées de Forfait ont profondément marqué Bonaparte. Cependant le groupe formé par Decrès, Ganteaume, Bruix et Villeneuve lors de la campagne d'Égypte, exerce une forte influence sur Napoléon ; et Decrès réussit à supplanter définitivement Forfait. Provenance : Ex-libris manuscrit de Decrès encollé sur un contreplat, qui succéda à l'auteur comme ministre de la Marine, et qui resta en poste jusqu'en 1814. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition of these observations and proposed reforms concerning the Navy. Pierre-Alexandre Forfait (17521807) served as Minister of the Navy from November 1799 to October 1801.Contemporary full fawn calf, mottled and polished, smooth spine tooled with gilt decorative compartments and false bands, red shagreen lettering-piece, joints lightly rubbed, boards framed with delicate gilt rolls, a few abrasions and small losses to the leather at the lower edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners softened, all edges gilt, a period binding.Pierre-Alexandre Forfait (17521807) served as Minister of the Navy from November 1799 to October 1801.Forfait and Bonaparte met in Venice around 1798, and it was he who "forma" the future Emperor in the principles of naval warfare that Napoleon would later wage against England.In this pamphlet, he characterises the English in the following terms « ces dominateurs des mers ne donneront jamais le temps nécessaire pour recréer et former une marine par les moyens ordinaires, la navigation marchande ou la pêche Comptez qu'ils vous déclareront toujours la guerre, ou vous la feront sans la déclarer, avant que vos forces navales aient pu atteindre son degré de développement qui puisse les inquiéter ».The plan of 21 July 1803, in which the flotilla was to operate without the support of the Navy, clearly demonstrates the deep influence Forfait's ideas had on Bonaparte.However, the group formed by Decrès, Ganteaume, Bruix and Villeneuve during the Egyptian campaign exerted a powerful influence on Napoleon; and Decrès ultimately succeeded in definitively supplanting Forfait.Provenance: manuscript ex-libris of Decrès mounted on a pastedown; he succeeded the author as Minister of the Navy and remained in office until 1814. * " in-8 de 5 ff.n.ch. et 214 pp .
More imagesPublished by Paris, Bachelier,, 1815
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Add to basketCouverture rigide. Condition: Bon état. In-4, basane racinée, dos lisse orné, tranches jonquille Reliure de l'époque, XVI- 340 pp. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée par Étienne Willaumez, capitaine de vaisseau. Elle comprend 25 planches hors texte, dépliantes pour la plupart, dont 24 dues au burin de… Bénard qui figuraient déjà dans l'édition originale de 1788 et une 25e inédite gravée par E. Collin. Épidermures sur les plats, légers manques aux coins, pâle mouillure angulaire aux pp. 1-32 et sur la pl. 24, manque en marge de la pl. 13. in-4°.
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Add to basket24 engraved folding plates. XL, 294 pp. 4to (260 x 195 mm). Contemporary full calf (rubbed, small defects to front hinge). Old ms. entries on title. Paris, Clousier, Imprimeur du Roi, 1788. First edition of a work by the Rouennais engineer and inventor (1752-1807), who won the gold medal at the Mantua Academy. Forfait held vario…us official naval posts both before and after the Revolution, in which he was called upon to solve various hydraulic engineering problems. The present work deals with sea-going vessels and smaller ships. - Cat. NHSM, 754; Hoefer XVIII, 175. SCIENCE:ENGINEERING .
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. In French. Broché, 19x12cm, 16p. Discours prononcée à la séance du soir, le mardi premier mai 1792, l'an IV de la liberté, par Pierre Forfait, député du dept. de Seine-Inférieure, à l'Assemblée National sur l'organisation de l'arillerie. Scarce.
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Add to basketGrenoble, Editions des 4 Seigneurs, 1979. Un vol. au format in-4 (278 x 213 mm) de xl - 294 pp. et 24 planches in fine. Reliure d'édition de plein skyvertex havane, plats jansénistes, dos lisse orné de doubles filets gras dorés, larges fleurons dorés, semis d'étoiles dorées. Reprint établi d'après l'originale de 1788 agrémenté d…e 24 planches. Tirage unique à 500 exemplaires numérotés ; tous sur vergé conquéror. ''Il me fallait exposer avec ordre et clarté tout ce qu'il y a de connu sur la mâture des vaisseaux et toute espèce, et indiquer ce qui reste à découvrir''. Polak, Bibliographie maritime, 3519 (pour la première édition). Très belle condition.
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Add to basketOriginal edition of an extensive manual and text book on all aspects of ship building, especially ships for the French navy. The section on masting begins with two chapters on different rigs, and includes a great deal of practical information, including much on sails, and the whole rigging of a ship, technical as wel as practica…l, not only for the large sea-fearing ships, but also for the smaller vessels. The plates show typical rigging for various vessel types, geometry involved, the making of compound masts, and a handsome three-part plate of a crew getting a huge mast out. A second edition appeared in 1831, a reprint edition in 1979.The author, Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait (1752-1807), was a French engineer, hydrographer and politician, and Minister of the Navy. He became Napoleon Bonaparte's first Minister of the Navy after the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799). He was a member of the Académie Royale de Marine, and later of l'Academie des Sciences, to which he contributed numerous memoirs. He was charged with the creation of a French fleet of packet-boats for a regular transatlantic service to the French colonies.The boards are slightly damaged, the hinges are weakened, very light foxing throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Anderson p. 41; Cat. Ned. Hist. Scheepv. Mus. p. 751; MacDonald 257 ("An important 18th century French treatise on masting and rigging; valuable plates"); Polak 3522; Scott 410. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with the title lettered in gold in the second compartment, blind-tooled triple-fillet frame on both boards, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates, by Benard. Pages: XL, 294 pp.
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Add to basketOriginal edition of an extensive manual on all aspects of ship building, with a focus on ships for the French navy. The section on masting begins with two chapters on different rigs, and includes a great deal of technical and practical information, including on sails and the rigging of a ship, not only for the large sea-fearing…ships, but also for the smaller vessels. The plates show typical rigging for various vessel types, the making of compound masts, and an attractive three-part plate of a crew constructing a large mast.Pierre Alexandre Laurent Forfait (1752-1807) was a French engineer, hydrographer and politician, and Minister of the Navy. He became Napoleon Bonaparte's first Minister of the navy after the 18 Brumaire. He was a member of the Académie Royale de Marine, and later of l'Academie des sciences, to which he contributed numerous memoirs. He was charged with the creation of a French fleet of packet-boats for a regular transatlantic service to the French colonies. A second edition of the present work appeared in 1831, and a reprint edition in 1979.The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, the back board is stained. Internally very clean with only occasional foxing. Overall in good condition.l Anderson p. 41; Cat. Ned. Hist. Scheepv. Mus. p. 751; Polak 3522; Scott 410; MacDonald 257 ("An important 18th century French treatise on masting and rigging; valuable plates"). Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, marbled end papers. With 190 illustrations and figures on 24 folding engraved plates by Benard. Pages: XL, 294 pp.
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Add to basketParis, Chez Clousier, 1788. 4to. XL + 294 pp. 24 folding engraved plates. Contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Spine richly gilt. Old inscription on fly-leaf. .
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Add to basketIn-4°. [xl] 294 pp. Veau brun de l'époque. Dos à nerfs orné et doré. Coiffe sup. fendue, coins émoussées. Travail de vers. Premi7re édition, bien complèt de 24 planches hors-texte.
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Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, IndiaTrue World of Books
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1815 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd repri…nt. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 427 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 427 Language: French.
