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1-RECHERCHES SUR LA CONSTRUCTION LA PLUS AVANTAGEUSE DE DIGUES (+) 2-THÉORIE DES FLEUVES, AVEC L'ART DE BATIR DANS LEURS EAUX ET DE PRÉVENIR LEURS RAVAGES (+) 3-TRAITÉ DE PERSPECTIVE, THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE
by 1-Bossut, Charles, Abbé & Guillaume Viallet; 2- Silberschlag, Jean-Isaye; 3-Deidier, Abbé (1696-1746)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert. Good+. 1764, 1769,1744. First Edition; Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert. Hardcover. 3 books bound together in contemporary full brown speckled calf with 5 spine bands & gilt decoration & lettering. Marbled endpapers. Page edges dyed red. Illustrated with chapter headers, vignettes and engraved fold-out plates. Text & plates are tight & clean. **1-RECHERCHES SUR LA CONSTRUCTION....DIGUES : [ 60 pp . 2]; 1764; 1st edition; 7 fold-out plates. **2-THÉORIE DES FLEUVES: [2, ix, 1,130pp, 2]; 1769; 1st French edition (translated from the German) ; 13 fold-out plates. **3-TRAITÉ DE PERSPECTIVE: [7-108pp ( bound without i-vi...lacks 3 leaves of prelims including title page) ]; 1744; 1st edition, 15 fold-out plates. L'abbé Deidier, 1696-1746, was a mathematician and professor of artillery at l'Ecole Militaire de La Fère. Dampststain only on front & rear endpapers and pp 81-85 of Des Fleuves. Spine ends rubbed with small loss. Front hinge starting 1" at top & front lower corner bumped. French text. Architecture. ; B/W engravings; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 284 pages .
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- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17726
- Title
- 1-RECHERCHES SUR LA CONSTRUCTION LA PLUS AVANTAGEUSE DE DIGUES (+) 2-THÉORIE DES FLEUVES, AVEC L'ART DE BATIR DANS LEURS EAUX ET DE PRÉVENIR LEURS RAVAGES (+) 3-TRAITÉ DE PERSPECTIVE, THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE
- Author
- 1-Bossut, Charles, Abbé & Guillaume Viallet; 2- Silberschlag, Jean-Isaye; 3-Deidier, Abbé (1696-1746)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition; Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert
- Publisher
- Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1764, 1769,1744
- Keywords
- Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Tight
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