PERRONET (Jean-Rodolphe). Description des projets de la construction des ponts de Neuilly, de Mantes, d'Orléans & autres ; du projet du canal de Bourgogne, pour la communication des deux Mers par Dijon ; et de celui de la conduite des eaux de l'Yvette et de Bièvre à Paris. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1782-1783. 2 vol. in-folio, waiting boards. First edition, illustrated with an engraved vignette on the titles, a portrait of the author drawn by Cochin and engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, and 67 copper-engraved plates, most of them double and folding (numbered I to LXVI, with a XXXIXbis). Director of the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, Perronet describes, in this beautiful work, his works of art and the machines designed to build these masterpieces of bridges and canals. Freckles and stains, small marginal wetnesses, folds to qq plates, soiled creased margins; pl. IV placed before pl. XIX; tear without missing I, p. 73; II, detached leaves, including several plates. Very worn boards, spines missing.