Souvenirs Polytechniques ou Recueil D'Observations, Mémoires et Projets, concernant la Navigation interieure, les Bacs, les Desséchements, les Portes maritimes, les Routes, les Ponts, L'Architecture, et autres Objets divers. Vol 1 (out of 3).

AINÉ, GOURY G.

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Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1827. 4to. Uncut, partly unopened in contemporary (original?) marbled wrappers. Wear to extremities and missing part of spine. Internally fine. XI, (1), 376 pp. First edition (of the first text-volume) of this scarce work by French engineer Ainé of water related constructions, and all sort of waterworks, construction of Canals, harbours, bridges, pump-houses etc. in Italy and France. Ainé was the French Chief Engineer of Roads and Bridges, member-professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and privately did extensive research on the arts of antiquity and their emigration from the East.

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• Title: Souvenirs Polytechniques ou Recueil D'Observations, Mémoires et Projets, concernant la Navigation interieure, les Bacs, les Desséchements, les Portes maritimes, les Routes, les Ponts, L'Architecture, et autres Objets divers. Vol 1 (out of 3).
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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