Joseph-Mathieu SGANZIN and Jean-Baptiste REIBELL, Programme, ou Résumé des leçons d'un cours de constructions, avec des applications tirées spécialement de l'Art de l'ingénieur des ponts et chaussées, ouvrage de feu M.-J. Sganzin... 4th edition.Paris, Carilian Goeury & Vor Dalmont, 1839-41 3 vol. in-4° and 1 atlas in-plano: xv-400p., 1 plate; vii-443p., 1 plate; vii-408p., 1 plate; title, 180 plates and 1 portrait of Prony bound between plates 85 and 86 Some foxing in the text volumes, affecting the plates less, except for the very last ones. Bound in contemporary blue-marine half-calf. Fourth edition of this famous course in civil engineering and architecture, which was taught under Napoleon I and reprinted until around 1850 Giuseppe Sganzin, an engineer of Italian origin, took part in the expansion of the North Sea ports of France and Belgium (Le Havre, Antwerp, Ostend) before finding his calling as a teacher at the Ponts et Chaussées in 1806. The first part is an exhaustive description of the construction techniques known at the time: mortars, bricks, stone, wood and iron fixtures... The second part of the course is devoted to land-based engineering structures: roads and bridges. It is completed by a third section devoted to navigation-related structures: canals, seaports, locks, jetties and dry docks.