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166 - Ducrest, (CL). Essais sur les machines hydrauliques, Contenant des recherches sur la maniere de les calculer & de perfectionner en générale leur construction; a new method for constructing the Vaisseaux; la Description de plusieurs Machines new propres à porter l'Hydraulique à un haut point de perfection ... Paris, Esprit, 1777. XXXVI, 298 (recte 314) pages With 5 folded. engraved. Panel. Spotted leather strap d. Currently with spine plate (1 outer joint cracked, upper spine and the corners of the V cover restored).
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Ducrest, (CL). Essais sur les machines hydrauliques, Contenant des recherches sur la maniere de les calculer & de perfectionner en générale leur construction; a new method for constructing the Vaisseaux; la Description de plusieurs Machines new propres à porter l'Hydraulique à un haut point de perfection ... Paris, Esprit, 1777. XXXVI, 298 (recte 314) pages With 5 folded. engraved. Panel. Spotted leather strap d. Currently with spine plate (1 outer joint cracked, upper spine and the corners of the V cover restored). Andrews: Hydraulics, pages 271; Poggendorff I, 611. - First edition of the first publication. - Charles Louis Ducrest (1747-1824) was an officer in the French Navy and later in the Army. He dedicated the book to Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725-1785). - 'In this monograph, Ducrest discusses basic principles of hydraulics and the design and application of various hydraulic machines and ships' (Andrews). - Two of the plates with waterwheels and mills. - Pages 257-272 duplicated. - 1 plate with a barely visible repaired tear. - Included: Coste, LMP Traité des roues hydrauliques et des roues à vent à la portée... Paris, 1830. VIII, 160 pages. With 1 lithographed plate. Contemporary half-leather binding.
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