Memoire Sur La Recherche Des Moyens Que L On Pourroit Employer Pour Construire De Grandes Arches De

by Jean Rodolphe Perronet

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First edition

One large folding engraved plate. 1 p.l., 44 pp. Large 4to, cont. half-sheep & marbled boards minor foxing . Paris: de l’Imprimerie Nationale, 1793. First edition. “This Mémoire on his monumental concept of masonry bridges with spans of 200 to 500 feet is the rarest of all Perronet’s works. Inspired by some of the great spans of the past Verona 150ft or Pontypridd 178ft he asks why, ‘dans un siècle ou les sciences & les arts ont fait de

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