LESAGE (Pierre Charles). Notice to be used in... Lot 29
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LESAGE (Pierre Charles). Notice to be used in praise of Mr. Perronet, first engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées de France. Paris, Bernard, An XIII-1805.
In-4, paperback, untrimmed.
Work illustrated with a portrait-fontispiece engraved in the black manner by Quenedey after Cochin, and 2 plates engraved after Lesage, one folding, the other in bistre.
Note on the life and work of Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, founder of the École des Ponts et Chaussées. The final plates represent, one, the Yvette canal project, the other the Concorde bridge (formerly the Louis-XVI bridge and the Revolution bridge), shown in two medallions (one for the profile, the other for the ground plan).
Good copy. Sending from the author to Monsieur Chambry, divisional inspector of the Imperial Corps of Bridges and Highways.
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