LABROSSE, F. The Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, China Seas, etc. Translated at the United States Hydrographic Offices from the French ... By J. W. Miller. Washington, Governement Printing Office, 1875.
8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. ix, [3], 360; very light wear to edges, internally apart from very light browning or spotting a very good copy.
First edition in English. Apart from iceberg tables, trade winds, cyclones of the Pacific, Australian currents, the prinicipal trade routes across the ocean, Australasian islands, the world's busiest sea, the South China Sea features heavily in this rare book, as well as the Straits of Malacca. - A rare pilot guide, essential for the navigation of the busiest shipping lanes of the world.
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