[DUBOCAGE DE BLEVILLE (M. J.)]. Mémoires sur le port, la navigation, et le commerce du Havre-de-Grace; et sur quelques singularités de l'histoire naturelle des environs. Havre-de-Grace, Faure, 1753. 2 parts bound in 1 volume in-12, marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, title page in garnet marble, red pages (period binding). First edition of this curious and unusual work on the region of Le Havre and Honfleur and on the history of the port but also, in the second part, on natural curiosities. "BOCAGE DE BLÉVILLE (Michel-Joseph du), navigator and hydrographer, born in Le Havre on 28 Jan. 1676. After a voyage of discovery and trade of all kinds with the islands of the South Sea, China and India, from 1707-1710, aboard the ship La Découverte, du Bocage returned to Le Havre, where he bought the land of Bléville, from which he took his name. This captain died in 1728 and was buried in the church of Bléville. [...] The observations on qq. singularités de l'hist. natur. des environs du Havre, which form the 2nd part of this work, concern 1° a petrified bank found 1 kilometre from Le Havre, at the foot of the côte de la Hève, where it extends over a length of approximately 1600 m. 2° on iron mines, mineral waters, English pebbles and others, which can be seen in the Pays de Caux; 3° on the cockroach, called soldier, or hermit crab, which our coasts provide in abundance; 4° on the petrifying fountain of Orcher, whose castle built at the mouth of the Seine, on a very steep cliff is located opposite Honfleur. This volume ends with a letter from Father Chansseaume, missionary to China, on the vegetation of coralloids. Frère. A fine copy. (Frère I, 115-116.) Traces of former armorial bookplate. Ex-libris Maurice Heuzey.