1763 Famed NAVAL Tactics 1ed Seven Years War French Navy Illustrated Bigot RARE
A rare and highly desirable 18th-century first edition book about naval tactics and the development of military naval signals!
Sébastien-François Bigot de Morogues was a French sailor known for his commands in the Seven Years’ War, most notably serving in the Royal Artillerie in the French Navy in the Battle of Quiberon Bay. Following the Seven Years’s War, Morogues published his first book of military tactics, “Tactique navale”. This book was so popular that it was immediately published in several languages, however, the 1763 first edition is considered the most desirable.
Corbett says of this book,
“the most scientific book on naval tactics ever written… It consists of over 200 pages of orders with signals annexed, written in the form of sailing and fighting instructions. Although the appropriate signals are annexed to the instructions, there is an eighty-page table of signals, for day, night and fog. This forms the draft lay-out of what a signal book should be.”
This example includes all 49 exquisite engravings of ship movement and positioning, formations, and navigational practices.
1763 Famed NAVAL Tactics 1ed Seven Years War French Navy Illustrated Bigot RARE
A rare and highly desirable 18th-century first edition book about naval tactics and the development of military naval signals!
Sébastien-François Bigot de Morogues was a French sailor known for his commands in the Seven Years’ War, most notably serving in the Royal Artillerie in the French Navy in the Battle of Quiberon Bay. Following the Seven Years’s War, Morogues published his first book of military tactics, “Tactique navale”. This book was so popular that it was immediately published in several languages, however, the 1763 first edition is considered the most desirable.
Corbett says of this book,
“the most scientific book on naval tactics ever written… It consists of over 200 pages of orders with signals annexed, written in the form of sailing and fighting instructions. Although the appropriate signals are annexed to the instructions, there is an eighty-page table of signals, for day, night and fog. This forms the draft lay-out of what a signal book should be.”
This example includes all 49 exquisite engravings of ship movement and positioning, formations, and navigational practices.
Item number: #27110
Price: $1500
MOROGUES, Sebastien Francois Bigot
Tactique navale, ou, Traité des évolutions et des signaux;
Paris: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1763. First edition.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- [4], x, 481, [3]
- 49 engraved plates
- References: Corbett, Signals and Instructions, 1907
- Language: French
- Binding: Leather; tight and secure
- Size: ~11.75in X 9in (30cm x 23cm)
- Exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable with multiple auction records and price comparisons between $3,000-$4300
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Category
Military & War
Authors
MOROGUES, Sebastien Francois Bigot
Printing Date
18th Century
Language
French
Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete