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(ENGINEERING) BELIDOR, BERNARD FOREST DE
Architecture hydraulique, ou L'Art de conduire, d'elever et de menager les eaux pour les differens besoins de la vie. Paris: Jombert, 1737, 1750, 1770.

4 vols. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. With two frontispieces and 156 fold-out plates. Wear to boards; ends chipped; joints cracked; hinges starting; foxing; intermittent brownspotting; light dampstaining affecting majority of plates, vols. 1 and 3; light interior soiling all vols.; minor wormholing to some leaves, vol. 1.

Property from the Collection of David H. Gee, Chicago, Illinois