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a book with drawings of a house and a planan open book with a black and white title on ittwo old books sitting next to each other on a white surfacea drawing of a bridge over a river in a book
Maître Stéphane PRENVEILLE

80 - DELAISTRE (J.-R.) – The Science of Engineering, divided into…
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Estimate €150 - €200
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DELAISTRE (J.-R.) – The Science of Engineering, divided into three parts dealing with roads, bridges, canals and aqueducts – Lyon; Brunet’s Printing House, 1825 – 3 volumes, 2 text volumes in 8vo and 1 atlas in 4to – A few scattered rare foxing spots - 56 lithographed folding plates (out of 57; plate 38 is missing here) - Contemporary brown half-basane binding (some scuffing to the covers) – Smooth spines decorated with gold fillets, title labels and volume numbers on orange-coloured paper – – A fine copy – The work contains, in the section on roads: introductory concepts on geometry, trigonometry, surveying, levelling and draughting – roads and highways proper – details on the administration of roads – methods of transporting materials for the construction and maintenance of roads; for the section on bridges: basic concepts of certain principles of physics and mechanics – suitable materials for constructing bridges and their various components; the principles according to which they must be built – machinery for driving piles, extracting piles and cranes – arches and their formwork; earth pressure, for the section on canals and aqueducts: water, fluids in general and their resistance to water – rivers, groynes, boats and drainage machinery – canals – locks and sluices – aqueducts.
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Auction time 10/02/2026 at 9:30 AM
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