A Vintage Ship Print (1958)
Marine Hollandaise - Corvette a Quilles Glissantes Hijena 1806
Dutch Navy - Sliding Keel Corvette Hijena 1806
This print is from a 1958 republishing of some of the most beautiful,
finely detailed line illustrations originally published in the 1882
Francois-Edmond Paris work "Souvenirs de marine"
Vice-Admiral François-Edmond Pâris, born March 6, 1806 in Paris was a French naval officer who made significant contributions to naval engineering during the transition from sail to steam.
Promoted to vice-admiral in 1864, Pâris headed the navy's archives until 1871, when he retired from naval service and became director of the Musée national de la Marine (National Museum of the Navy), where he organized the collections and acquired new items. This work led to the publishing of what many maritime historians consider his seminal work, "Souvenirs de marine conservés."
I have a number of these reproduction prints originally published in the supplemental volumes of plans for this work, first published in 1882, titled "Souvenirs de Marine. Collection de plans ou dessins de navires et de bateaux anciens ou modernes existants ou disparus avec les éléments numériques nécessaores à leur construction." (A Record of Navy: Collection of plans or drawings of vessels and of boats ancient or modern, existing or disappeared, with the numerical elements necessary for their construction.) These prints from this series range from vessels of ancient empires to the Golden Age of Sail, and include many ships of indigenous peoples of Asia, Arabia and the Americas, to are an important research tool for readers ranging from maritime historians to model ship builders
Publisher: Robert Loef Verlag, in Magdeburg, in 1958
Very good condition; light aging; occasional speck; superficial handling wear; slight edge ruffling at top where originally bound
Blank on reverse
Condition: Excellent - Very Good - Good -Fair - Poor (but of historical interest)
Some light age & handing wear
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