[MARINE] - DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU (Louis) - Elémens de l'architecture navale, ou traité pratique de la construction des vaisseaux - Paris ; Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1758 - 1 volume In-4° - Small marginal lack at the top of the title, a few scattered pale freckles, yellowed leaves, 1 detached quire - Frontispiece, vignette at the title, 10 vignettes by Nicolas Ozanne and 24 engraved plates on 23 folding leaves - 81 pages with 18th century handwritten annotations in black ink in the margin, mainly translations of technical terms from French to Spanish, 6 pages with handwritten annotations XIXth century in black ink in the margin - Binding of the period marbled tan calf (2 corners worn, epidermures to the boards) - Spine with ornate nerves (upper headband frayed) - Maroon morocco title-piece (partial lack and tear) - Red edges - Handwritten ex-libris on the 1st white endpaper : De Enrique MacDonnel, comendador de Palomas en la Orden de Santiago, y Teniente de Navio de la Armada, Cadiz, 1779 Cadiz and at length on the title - Enrique MacDonnell (1753-1823) was 1 Irish-Spanish admiral known for his participation in several naval battles, including that of Trafalgar - Fairly good copy in the 2nd edition augmented with a 10th chapter containing "Method to connoct on a plan if the ship one is planning will carry the sail. "With handwritten annotations by MacDonnel.