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La France maritime, fondé et dirigée par Amédée, chef au Ministere de la Marine, chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur, etc. Sous le patronage du Ministre de la Marine, et de toutes les sommites speciales, scientifiques et litteraires.
Paris, Postel, 1837.
3 text volumes + plate volume. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 3 engraved title-pages and numerous engraved plates (2 plates missing; some margins sl. damaged). Amédée Gréhan (1802-1879) edited this encyclopedic compendium of the navy, to which the first maritime novelists Édouard Corbière, Eugène Sue, Fulgence Girard, Auguste Jal contributed. The texts presented are sea stories or reports, extracts from French or foreign newspapers or magazines, letters to the editor, and Lloyd's notices. Categories are shipwrecks, steam navigation, navigation, piracy, maritime penal code, voyages, biographies, fishing, bibliography, seafaring customs, slavery, etc. - (Text volumes age-browned; volume 4 was published in 1842).
Polak 4095.
3 text volumes + plate volume. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 3 engraved title-pages and numerous engraved plates (2 plates missing; some margins sl. damaged). Amédée Gréhan (1802-1879) edited this encyclopedic compendium of the navy, to which the first maritime novelists Édouard Corbière, Eugène Sue, Fulgence Girard, Auguste Jal contributed. The texts presented are sea stories or reports, extracts from French or foreign newspapers or magazines, letters to the editor, and Lloyd's notices. Categories are shipwrecks, steam navigation, navigation, piracy, maritime penal code, voyages, biographies, fishing, bibliography, seafaring customs, slavery, etc. - (Text volumes age-browned; volume 4 was published in 1842).
Polak 4095.