Gautier - Traité des Ponts - 1755

Gautier: Treatise on Bridges. Or where it is spoken of those of the Romans and of those of the Moderns. Paris, at Duchesne, 1755. 8vo.

: Full period morocco calfskin. Spine with five raised bands richly adorned with gilded rosettes. Red morocco title label. Gilded rulings on the edges. Red edges. Illustration: The illustration consists of a fine frontispiece etched in copperplate by J.B. Scotin, showing a construction site, and 30 folding plates engraved on copper depicting plans of Roman and modern bridges, technical sections, carpentry details, scaffolding, as well as lifting machines.
State: Good copy, solid and well preserved. The period binding remains sturdy despite light rubbing and small defects of use to the boards and spine. Interior well preserved with light, pale damp-staining. There are also minuscule worm-track works in the white margin, very discreetly touching the subject of a few plates, not affecting the reading of the image.


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I would like to have the description in French; the book is bound in period leather, with a frontispiece and thirty folding plates
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Bibliographic Description
GAUTIER, Henri. Treatise on Bridges, where it is spoken of those of the Romans & of those of the Moderns... Paris, Duchesne, 1755.
In-8° (around 20 x 13 cm).
Collation: One frontispiece, title, [6] ff., 414 pp., [12] ff. (table), 30 folding plates. Complete.
Description in French
Complete copy of this landmark treatise, the first modern work fully devoted to the construction of bridges.
Binding: Full marbled calfskin of the period. Spine with five nerves richly decorated with gilded fleurons. Red morocco title piece. Gilded tooling on the edges. Red edges.
Illustration: The illustration consists of a beautiful frontispiece engraved in copperplate (antiporta) by J.B. Scotin, showing workers at the bridge construction site, and 30 folding plates engraved on copper representing plans of Roman and modern bridges, technical sections, carpentry details, scaffolding, and lifting machinery.
State: Fine copy in well-preserved period binding. Robe and corners discreetly restored, bindings solid. Interior fresh despite some scattered foxing normal for 18th-century paper. The folding plates are well preserved and complete.
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Bibliographic Description
GAUTIER, Henri. Treatise on Bridges, where it is spoken of those of the Romans & of those of the Moderns... Paris, Duchesne, 1755.
In-8° (ca. 20 x 13 cm).
Collation: One frontispiece, title, [6] ff., 414 pp., [12] ff. (table), 30 folding plates. Complete.
Description of the copy
Complete copy of this landmark treatise, the first modern work entirely devoted to the construction of bridges.
Binding: Full marbled calfskin of the period. Spine with five nerves richly adorned with gilded fleurons. Red morocco title piece. Gilded tooling on the edges. Red edges.
Illustration: The illustration consists of a fine frontispiece engraved in copperplate by J.B. Scotin, showing workers busy at the site of a bridge, and 30 folding plates engraved on copper, representing plans of Roman and modern bridges, technical sections, carpentry details, scaffolding, and lifting machines.
State: Good copy, solid and well bound. The binding of the period remains sturdy despite light rubbing and small defects to the boards and spine. Interior well preserved with pale damp-staining estompées. The folding plates are well preserved and complete.