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ARCHITECTURE. 2 vols. Architecture hydraulique ou l'art de conduire, d'éle…
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ARCHITECTURE. 2 vols. Architecture hydraulique ou l'art de conduire, d'élever et de ménager les eaux pour les différents besoins de la vie, tome 1er par M. Belidor, Paris, rue Dauphine, chez Charles Antoine Jombert, 1737 et tome second, 1739, 22x 29,5 cm. Full leather bindings, spine ribbed missing the title and tome pieces in volume 1 split, corners rubbed and dulled, headbands faded, traces of insects on the leather binding visible in places, restorations in places including first pages of each volume. Engraving frontispiece vol. 1; 6 plates chap. 1; 4 plates chap. 2; 8 plates chap. 3; Book II chap. II 5 plates put in chap. I; and plates chap. I put in chap. II chap. I 10 plates; galleries of insects; Chap. III, 2 plates, Chap. 4 9 plates; vol 1 xij +412pp; vol 2 6+424pp+xxviij: chap1 1pl; chap2 3pl; moisture aureoles; chap3 4pl; Chap. 4 - 18pl; chap5 5pl; book 4 chap I 6pl; chap II, 1 plate; chap III, 6pl; chap 4 -8pl; chap 5 -2pl; 29 x 23 cm.

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ARCHITECTURE. 2 vols. Architecture hydraulique ou l'art de conduire, d'élever et de ménager les eaux pour les différents besoins de la vie, tome 1er par M. Belidor, Paris, rue Dauphine, chez Charles Antoine Jombert, 1737 et tome second, 1739, 22x 29,5 cm. Full leather bindings, spine ribbed missing the title and tome pieces in volume 1 split, corners rubbed and dulled, headbands faded, traces of insects on the leather binding visible in places, restorations in places including first pages of each volume. Engraving frontispiece vol. 1; 6 plates chap. 1; 4 plates chap. 2; 8 plates chap. 3; Book II chap. II 5 plates put in chap. I; and plates chap. I put in chap. II chap. I 10 plates; galleries of insects; Chap. III, 2 plates, Chap. 4 9 plates; vol 1 xij +412pp; vol 2 6+424pp+xxviij: chap1 1pl; chap2 3pl; moisture aureoles; chap3 4pl; Chap. 4 - 18pl; chap5 5pl; book 4 chap I 6pl; chap II, 1 plate; chap III, 6pl; chap 4 -8pl; chap 5 -2pl; 29 x 23 cm.

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