Roger Gaskell Rare Books

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	§ BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de (1697?–1761). Dictionnaire portatif de l’ingénieur, où l’on explique les principaux termes des sciences les plus nécessaires à une ingénieur, sçavoir: l’arithmetique, l’algébre, la géometrie, l’architecture civile, la charpenterie, la serrurerie, l’architecture hydraulique, l’architecture militaire, la fortification, l’attaque et la defense des places, les mines, l’artillerie, la marine, la pyrotechnie. Paris: chez Charles-Antione Jombert, 1755. Collation: 8vo: a⁶ A–X⁸ Y², 176 leaves, pp. ix [3] 339 [1]. Condition: 168 x 100mm. A clean and fresh copy. Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, red edges. Headcap chipped, wormhole at foot of spine, corners worn. References: Roberts and Trent p. 31. Price: £650 First edition. An enlarged second edition appeared in 1768, after Belidor’s death. ¶ A pocket encyclopaedia for engineers by the author of the most widely used engineering textbook of the eighteenth century, Architecture Hydraulique (1737–39). On the last page is an advertisement for Belidor’s works, ending with the Dictionnaire portatif itself, priced 3 liv. 12f; the four quarto volumes of the Architecture Hydraulique cost 90 livres.
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