Naval History of England, French edition 1751

Histoire navale d'Angleterre, depuis la conquête des Normands en 1066, jusqu'a la fin de l'année 1734. Tirée des historiens les plus approuvés, des manuscrits originaux, des actes publics, des traités & des journaux. […] Traduit de l'anglois. Avec frontispice et trois vignettes. 1-3.

A Lyon, chez led Freres Duplain, 1751. 4to. (24,5 x 19 cms.) [2] + LXXX + 668; + [2] + 708; + [2] + 748 pp. + engraved frontispiece in volume one. Titles printed in red & black. Engraved vignette on first text page of each volume.

Three volumes. An attractive copy in contemporary full calf, spines gilt in compartments, covers with gilt outer border, red edges. Spines lightly worn, faded and stained, fly-leaves darkened along edges.

First edition of the French translation of Lediard’s ”The Naval History of England in all its branches, from the Norman Conquest [...] to the conclusion of 1734” (1735).

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