PLOIX, CHARLES (+) M. GASPARI.

Météorologie nautique. Vents et courants. routes générales. Extrait des Sailing Directions de Maury et des travaux les plus récents.

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1874. Large 4to. In contemporary half cloth with the original blue printed front wrapper pasted on to front board. Two vague stamps to front board and one stamp to title-page. Internally fine and clean. VII, 232 pp. + 12 plates and folded maps.

French reworked edition of Matthieu-Fontaine Maury's Sailing Directions. Ploix adopted Maury's work for the French Navy after he met Maury at the 1853 Brussels conference.

Order-nr.: 58773