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La Science de l'Ingénieur, Divisée en Trois Parties, ou l'On Traite des Chemins, des Ponts, des Canaux, et des Aqueducs [3 volumes]
by Delaistre, J.R
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About This Item
Paris: Chez L'éditeur, 1832. Hardcover. Good. 2nd ed., "Revue et augmentée par M. Laguerenne." Imprint includes: Lyon: Chez M. Favéro. 3 volumes: 57 folded leaves of plates, some in-text tables; 26 cm. Contemporary binding: calf spines with 6 spine compartments between double gilt rules. Black leather spine labels in the second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume numbers. Marbled paper over boards. Page edges are yellow, except for the fore-edges of the plate volume. Dedicated to Louis-Philippe I, last king of France. Volume containing the plates entitled: Atlas de la Science de l'Ingénieur. Civil engineering treatise about the construction of roads, bridges, canals, and aquaducts, with detailed engravings. In Good Condition: leather rubbed, most prominently at the tails of vol. 2 and 3; corners and fore-edges rubbed; fore-edges of vol. 3 boards are dampstained, resulting in the migration of yellow from the leaf edges to the fore-edge margins and the fold edges of most of the first 33 leaves (through plate XXXI) of vol. 3; otherwise both pages and plates are clean and crisp.
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- Title
- La Science de l'Ingénieur, Divisée en Trois Parties, ou l'On Traite des Chemins, des Ponts, des Canaux, et des Aqueducs [3 volumes]
- Author
- Delaistre, J.R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- Publisher
- Chez L'éditeur
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1832
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