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[François-Aymar de monteil]. Manuscript, Instruction abregée, concernant la navigation d'Europe dans l'Inde, et le retour de l'Inde en Europe; sewn notebook of 79 partly ruled folio pages (plus qqs ff. vierges). Careful copy of an Instruction on sea routes, taking into account the seasons, the port of origin and the final destination, and pointing out discoveries, map improvements, past errors and ongoing dangers: crossing from the Cape of Good Hope to Pondicherry via the Mozambique Canal, or by "la grande route"; crossing the islands of France and Bourbon in Europe; voyage to China... Followed by copies of the Lettre à M. le comte de *** où l'on donne les principaux élemens pour servir à la theorie des vens dans zones temperées..., [by Pierre-Charles Le Monnier], and of a Dissertation historique sur les vents alisés, et les moussons..., by Edmond Halley, two studies published together in one brochure (s.l.n.d., after 1751).

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[François-Aymar de monteil]. Manuscript, Instruction abregée, concernant la navigation d'Europe dans l'Inde, et le retour de l'Inde en Europe; sewn notebook of 79 partly ruled folio pages (plus qqs ff. vierges). Careful copy of an Instruction on sea routes, taking into account the seasons, the port of origin and the final destination, and pointing out discoveries, map improvements, past errors and ongoing dangers: crossing from the Cape of Good Hope to Pondicherry via the Mozambique Canal, or by "la grande route"; crossing the islands of France and Bourbon in Europe; voyage to China... Followed by copies of the Lettre à M. le comte de *** où l'on donne les principaux élemens pour servir à la theorie des vens dans zones temperées..., [by Pierre-Charles Le Monnier], and of a Dissertation historique sur les vents alisés, et les moussons..., by Edmond Halley, two studies published together in one brochure (s.l.n.d., after 1751).

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