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DUPAIN DE MONTESSON. L'art de lever les plans de tout ce qui a rapport à la guerre & à l'architecture civile & champêtre. In Paris, by Barrois l'aîné, Firmin-Didot, 1792. In-8, XVI-272 p., fr., pl., contemporary speckled tan basane, smooth spine, garnet calf title-piece, gilt roulettes and fleurons, gilt roulette at the edges, yellow edges (2 corners worn, snagging at the edge of a head-board, slight rubbing, missing angul. at the margin of 2 ff.). Third corrected and enlarged edition, illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece in 1762 by Chevalier after De Lafue (pale edition), 6 folding plates engraved by Dupain-Triel and Picquet, and 5 hors-texte tables. The catalogue of the publisher Barrois (20 pages) is bound at the head of this copy. Old handwritten bookplate and stamps on the title, of Jesuit colleges of Metz and Lille.
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DUPAIN DE MONTESSON. L'art de lever les plans de tout ce qui a rapport à la guerre & à l'architecture civile & champêtre. In Paris, by Barrois l'aîné, Firmin-Didot, 1792. In-8, XVI-272 p., fr., pl., contemporary speckled tan basane, smooth spine, garnet calf title-piece, gilt roulettes and fleurons, gilt roulette at the edges, yellow edges (2 corners worn, snagging at the edge of a head-board, slight rubbing, missing angul. at the margin of 2 ff.). Third corrected and enlarged edition, illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece in 1762 by Chevalier after De Lafue (pale edition), 6 folding plates engraved by Dupain-Triel and Picquet, and 5 hors-texte tables. The catalogue of the publisher Barrois (20 pages) is bound at the head of this copy. Old handwritten bookplate and stamps on the title, of Jesuit colleges of Metz and Lille.
