De La Coudraye, Francois-Celestin De Loynes, Theorie Des Vents, A. Cochon De Chambonneau 1786

Title: Theorie Des Vents
Author: De La Coudraye, Francois-Celestin De Loynes
Publisher: A. Cochon De Chambonneau
Year published: 1786
Place of Publication: Fontenay
Book Condition: Fair
Size: 8vo
Binding: Disbound
Edition: First Edition

Notes: Theorie des vents, piece couronnee, en 1785, par l’Academie Royale des Sciences, Arts & Belles-Lettres de Dijon; par M. le Chevalier de la Coudraye, ancien Lieutenant des Vaisseaux du Roi; Chevalier de l’Ordre Royal & Militaire de Saint-Louis; de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, Arts & Belles-Lettres de Dijon, de celle de Bordeaux, & de la Societe Provinciale des Arts & des Sciences d’Utrecht (Fontenay: A. Cochon de Chambonneau, 1786), pp. (4), 97, (3). 8vo. Disbound. The condition is fair but the pages are still tightly sewn and relatively unmarked. First Edition. Francois-Celestin de Loynes de la Coudraye (1743-1815), more often known as Chevalier de la Coudraye, was an officer in the French navy and a learned expert on the science of maritime navigation, a subject on which he published a number of treatises and contributed material to the Encyclopedie (1751-72) compiled by Diderot and D’Alembert in the later eighteenth century. This is the first edition of his treatise on the ‘winds’, redacted from a lecture he gave at the Academie Royale des Sciences, Arts & Belles-Lettres de Dijon in 1775.