L’art de lever les plans de tout ce qui a rapport à la guerre, & à l’architecture civile & champêtre.
Paris: chez Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1763.
Collation:
8vo: a8 A–Q8, 136 leaves, pp. xvi 247 [9]. Q4r,v,
Approbation and Privilège; Q5r, errata; Q5v–Q8v, publisher’s
advertisements. Woodcut decoration on title, headpieces and initials.
Plates:
11 plates: etched frontispiece signed ‘De lafue. inv. del. Chevalier
Sculp. 1762’, 5 folding engraved tables and 5 folding engraved plates
signed ‘Dupain-Triel Sculpsit’.
Condition:
196 x 120mm. Minor spotting and dustsoiling.
Binding:
Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red edges, marbled endleaves.
Headcap chipped and joints starting to split at the top, corners rubbed.
Provenance:
Eighteenth-century bookseller’s label of Laureau, Arras, and
twentieth-century ticket of the Librarie Emile Blanchard.
References:
OCLC 23642976 (6 copies).
Price:
£725
First edition.
¶ An attractive manual of cartography and survey work with the compass and plane table. The third part deals with plans for fortification and architecture. Three years later Dupain, ‘Capitaine d’Infanterie, Ingénieur-Géographe des Camps et Armeés du Roi,’ published a work devoted to surveying, La science de l’arpenteur dans toute son étendue (1766, engraved throughout). The present work was published again in 1804.
Dedicated to the Duc de Berry.
