1787 Pilot Guide Haiti - Sailing Navigation Haiti Charts - 1st Edition

Description

Scarce first edition of an interesting 18
th
century navigation guide for the French colony of Saint- Domingue (present Haiti)
detailing with great precision sailing directions for the island.
In 1784, the French royalty sent Count Antoine
Chastenet-Puységur (1752-1807) to conduct an official coastal survey to Saint-Domingue.    After fourteen months of cartographic measurements, Chastenet-Puységur published
LE PILOTE DE L'ISLE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE ET DES DEBOUQUEMENS DE CETTE ISLE (1787)
and
the present work.  Both works were intended to be used as pilot guides to supplement their sea charts.
(CHASTENET-PUYSÉGUR)
DÉTAIL SUR LA NAVIGATION AUX  CÔTES DE SAINT-DOMINGUE
ET DANS SES DÉBOUQUEMENS.
A Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale,
1787
Bound with
LIEUDÉ DE SEPMANVILLE
DÉTAIL PARTICULIER POUR LA CARTE DE LA GONAVE
A Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale,
1788
Physical description:
Work complete.
Two parts in one
:
2 l, pp. 81, 10; 25 x 19 cm.
Binding:
Contemporary marbled calf.
Binding very tired and defective with great loss of leather.
Condition:
Leaves a little creased, occasional spots or small stains, last 3 leaves with minor worm work at the lower inner margin (not affecting text).  Still a reasonable good copy of a scarce work.
Bibliography:
Sabin 12235; “Bibliotheca Americana” Warden 896
Subject: Navigation Charts Marine; Sea Charts; Marine; Americana, Pilot Guide – Haiti, Haitian Hispaniola.