Julien David LE ROY, [from Mémoires de l'Institut national, t.1, 2 et 3], Nouvelles recherches sur les navires employés par les Anciens; Mémoire sur le Moeris; Second mémoire sur la marine. Des petits navires des Anciens [Paris, an VI [1798] et seq;] 1 pamphlet in-4° extracted from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd t. of the Mémoires de l'Institut national: 1f., p.479-491, 2pl.; p.117-132, 1pl.; p.141-169, 1pl. Modern brochure on Prussian blue glue paper Documents in perfect condition with full margins. Important collection of essays on naval archaeology by a specialist in ancient Greece, published in the Memoires de l'Institut.

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