Joseph Correard: Guide maritime et stratégique dans la mer Noire, la mer d'Azof et sur le théâtre de la guerre en Orient. Paris 1854. First edition, in 8vo, contemporary publishers covers,text with some light scattered spotting,ex libris of the French Ministry of Defense taken out from its collections a decade ago, overall in almost very good condition. Joseph Corréard was a former naval officer and the editor of the Journal des Armes Spéciales. He was famous for publishing works that combined hard data with military theory. This book was the GPS for the French and British Admiralties of that time. It transformed the observations of earlier travelers into military objectives, provided the most up-to-date descriptions of Russian strongholds like Sevastopol, Odessa, and Anapa. It analyzed the range of their cannons and the vulnerability of their sea-walls. It detailed the soundings,the depths, of the Sea of Azov, which was notoriously shallow and difficult for the large Allied steam-frigates to navigate. Unlike the previous nautical guides from the 1820s, Corréard focused on coaling stations. For the first time, a war in the Levant in mid 1850s was to be fought with steam power, and knowing where to find fuel was as important as knowing where to find the enemy. It cover particularly well also the southern ports, of Anatolia and the Ottoman ports in the Balkans. Many reports on the Greek heave presence all around the Black Sea.A very detailed guide for the Black sea and all its ports around,a sea that its maritime trade was completely dominated by the Greeks in 19th century