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[NAVIGATION]. FADEN, William (1749-1836). Le Petit Neptune Français; or, French Coasting Pilot, for the coast of Flanders, Channel, Bay of Biscay, and Mediterranean, to which is added the coast of Italy from the River Var to Orbitello: with the Gulf of Naples and the island of Corsica. London: for W. Faden, 1793. 4to. Engraved frontispiece, 46 engraved charts on 39 sheets (few dampstains, offsetting, some artistic pencil drawings of ships on versos). Half contemporary calf, marbled sides (rebacked, blank label on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of Faden’s adaptation of a successful pilot guide which began circulating under the title Le Petit flambeau de la mer in the 17th century.