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LESAGE (Pierre-Charles). Second collection of various memoirs extracted from the Imperial Library of the Ponts et Chaussées, for the use of the engineers. Paris, from the Hacquart printing house, 1808. In-4, X-154 pp, 10 engraved plates (7 folding and one on double page), portrait-frontispice, green half-basin with corners, smooth spine decorated, gilt fillets (period binding). Small pieces of paper missing on the boards. 1. LESAGE. Table lythologique addressed to MM. Les ingénieurs des Ponts et Chaussées... - 2. SMEATON J. Lighthouse of Edystone. A historical account of the construction of the Edystone Lighthouse. Translated from the English by A. Pictet. - 3 SMEATON. Experimental researches on the best composition of specimens for hydraulic constructions (extracted from his work on the Edystone lighthouse). - 4. BETANCOURT. Memorandum on a new system of inland navigation. - 5. report made to the institute by the class of physical and mathematical sciences.
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LESAGE (Pierre-Charles). Second collection of various memoirs extracted from the Imperial Library of the Ponts et Chaussées, for the use of the engineers. Paris, from the Hacquart printing house, 1808. In-4, X-154 pp, 10 engraved plates (7 folding and one on double page), portrait-frontispice, green half-basin with corners, smooth spine decorated, gilt fillets (period binding). Small pieces of paper missing on the boards. 1. LESAGE. Table lythologique addressed to MM. Les ingénieurs des Ponts et Chaussées... - 2. SMEATON J. Lighthouse of Edystone. A historical account of the construction of the Edystone Lighthouse. Translated from the English by A. Pictet. - 3 SMEATON. Experimental researches on the best composition of specimens for hydraulic constructions (extracted from his work on the Edystone lighthouse). - 4. BETANCOURT. Memorandum on a new system of inland navigation. - 5. report made to the institute by the class of physical and mathematical sciences.
