Lot 69
Monge (Gaspard) Géométrie Descriptive, first edition, Paris, 1799.
Estimate: £250 - 350
Description
Monge (Gaspard) Géométrie Descriptive, first edition, half-title, 29 folding engraved plates, a little spotted and browned, old ink ownership stamp at foot of title, contemporary paste-paper boards, rebacked and recornered in calf, black roan label, rubbed, new endpapers, 4to, Paris, Baudouin, An VII [1799].
⁂ Pioneering work on technical drawing, influential in the development of engineering. Monge was a mathematician and physicist, and one of the leading figures in the foundation of the École Polytechnique in 1794.
Description
Monge (Gaspard) Géométrie Descriptive, first edition, half-title, 29 folding engraved plates, a little spotted and browned, old ink ownership stamp at foot of title, contemporary paste-paper boards, rebacked and recornered in calf, black roan label, rubbed, new endpapers, 4to, Paris, Baudouin, An VII [1799].
⁂ Pioneering work on technical drawing, influential in the development of engineering. Monge was a mathematician and physicist, and one of the leading figures in the foundation of the École Polytechnique in 1794.
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