[MARINE - MILITARIA] - HOSTE (Paul) - L'art des armées navales ou Traité des évolutions navales qui contient des règles utiles aux Officiers Généraux et Particuliers d'une Armée Navale ; avec des exemples tirez de ce qui s'est passé de plus considérable sur la mer depuis cinquante ans - Lyon ; Anisson & Posuel, 1697 - 1 volume In-folio - Work presenting numerous galleries and wormholes on its whole located however mainly in the margins until page 399 from which one finds 1 transverse gallery affecting a little the text and the plates on the 25 following leaves, some yellowed leaves - Vignette on the title, vignette of dedication, 5 headbands and 133 plates included in the pagination, lettrines, culs-de-lampe - Bound in the suite: [DU MÊME] - L'art des Armées Navales ou Traité des évolutions navales. Théorie de la construction des vaisseaux - [Lyon, Anisson et Posuel, 1697] - False title present, title page missing - 3 headbands, 11 folding plates - Bound in contemporary marbled tan basane (1 corner dull, some rubbing and spotting to boards, rare wormholes at the head of a pin on the 1st plate) - Spine ribbed and decorated (snagging and small lack at the lower head) - Maroon morocco title-piece - Red edges - Original editions sold as is to which is attached 1 handwritten page in the 18th century in Spanish.