Traité des ponts, où il est parlé de ceux des Romains & de ceux des modernes; de leurs manières, tant de ceux de maçonnerie, que de charpente [...]. Des projets des ponts, des matériaux [...]. Nouvelle édition, augmenté d'une dissertation sur les culées, pilles, voussoirs [...].

8vo: [8]-416 pp.; 33 pl. (some foxing).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, red leather title-label, sprinkled edges (sm. wormholes at the bottom of the spine, some sm. scratches on the upper board, corners and turn-ins restored).

"Nouvelle édition", actually the real third ed. (1st ed. of the "Traité": 1716; "Dissertation": 1717; 2nd ed. combining the 2 works: 1723), and not the so-called "third edition" published in 1755. Ill. (complete) with 2 front., 1 portrait, and 30 plates (numbered I-XXVI, I-IV), mostly folding. A long plate shows animated views of the "pont de la Guillotière" at Lyon, the "pont royal des Tuileries" at Paris, and the "pont du St Esprit, Languedoc, sur le Rosne". Contemp. handwritten note on a flyleaf.
Ref. Bibliotheca Mechanica 134 (1st ed.).