171 - Grollier de Servière, (N.). Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathematique et de mecanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, Avec près de cent Planches en Taille-douce. Par (G.) Grollier de Servière, son petit fils ... Seconde édition. Revûe, correctée & augmentée de new Machines. Paris, Jombert, 1751. 13 sheets, 152 pages, 4 sheets (register). Stung at 93. Tables by Daudet. 4°. Spotted calfskin strap d. Currently with a gold-embossed spine plate and rich gilding on the spine (somewhat bumped, whether the capital has been inconspicuously restored).

Grollier de Servière, (N.). Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathematique et de mecanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, Avec près de cent Planches en Taille-douce. Par (G.) Grollier de Servière, son petit fils ... Seconde édition. Revûe, correctée & augmentée de new Machines. Paris, Jombert, 1751. 13 sheets, 152 pages, 4 sheets (register). Stung at 93. Tables by Daudet. 4°. Spotted calfskin strap d. Currently with a gold-embossed spine plate and rich gilding on the spine (somewhat bumped, whether the capital has been inconspicuously restored). Wheeler Gift 369; Cf. catalogue of the ornamental engraving collection, Berlin 1784, and Honeyman 1560 (first edition). – Last and most comprehensive edition. – Nicolas Grollier de Servière (c. 1592–1686) worked, among other things, as a military engineer and clockmaker and assembled an extensive and widely known cabinet of curiosities and models. His grandson Gaspard (1677–1745) first published a description of this collection in 1719. It contains artistic turned works, clocks, water engines and Archimedean screws, windmills and watermills, military equipment, ships, bridge constructions, a further development of Ramelli's book wheel, and more. – In addition to the 85 plates of the first edition (numbered 1–88, of which 39, 48, and 76 were never published), this edition also contains plates 31a, 52a, 56a, 72a, and 84a–d. – Some minor foxing. Endpaper and frontispiece glued together, with a faintly visible Pigache bookplate in between, and a title page with an illegible old ownership inscription.