Architecture - Public works
BOSSUT (Charles)... Lot 581
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Architecture - Public works
BOSSUT (Charles) - VIALLET (Guillaume) - SILBERSCHLAG (Jean-Isaye)
Recherches sur la Construction la plus avantageuse des Digues Paris, Jombert, 1764. (Followed by) SILBERSCHLAG (Jean-Isaye): Theory of the Rivers with the art of building in their waters and of preventing their ravages. Paris, Jombert, 1769.
In-4 : 60pp, 2f ; illustrated with VII folding plates (light stain) - 1f, IX, (1), 130pp, 1f ; illustrated with XIII folding plates in fine.
Contemporary marbled fawn basane, spine ribbed and decorated, fully restored, red title-pieces and tomaisons, large leather inserts on boards in restoration, double gilt fillet on edges, marbled edges.
First edition for the first text. First French edition for the second work translated from German by d'Auxiron. Works to serve as a sequel to the second part of Belidor's L'Architecture hydraulique, which deals with the art of making rivers navigable, building canals, dykes, jetties, locks, etc.
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