LA SCIENCE DES INGENIEURS DANS LA CONDUITE DES TRAVAUX DE FORTIFICATION ET D'ARCHITECTURE CIVILE

by Bernard Forest de Belidor

A$10,000 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

The Science of Engineers in the Conduct of Fortification and Civil Architecture Works . Pp. viii +80+ 8 +80+64+96+104+80, engraved frontispiece and 53 plates 51 folding, including 2 tables , pictorial headpiece to the royal Dedication, decorative head & tailpieces and initials, the title page printed in red & black; demy 4to; early mottled calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with the gilt arms of Stanislaus I of Poland at centre

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