Recueil de divers mémoires extraits de la Bibliothèque impériale des ponts et chaussées, à l'usage de MM. les ingénieurs
By: publié par P.C. Lesage
Contributors: Chrétien, Gilles Louis, 1754-1811; Quenedey, Edme, 1756-1830; Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790
Edition: 2. éd. augm. de cinq nouveaux mémoires inédits, et de neuf planches.
Publisher: Firmin Didot
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Civil engineering
Notes: First published 1806-08; see BN.

Includes life of Jean Rodolphe Perronet and a list of his principal engineering works. Lesage's description of England focuses on roads and bridges, with a section on the Eddystone Lighthouse. The "Cabinet lythologique" in v. 2 consists of tables giving properties of French building stones.

Vol. 1: [4], ii, 296 p., a frontispiece port. of Lesage, and 17 plates. Vol. 2: [2], xvj, 324, [2] p., frontispiece port. of Perronet, 18 plates, and an added impression of plate 17, v. 1.

Port. of Lesage in v. 1 (etching with aquatint) is by Chrétien. Perronet's port. in v. 2 is by Quenedey after Cochin fils. The large view of the Place et Pont de la Concorde (facing p. 27, v. 1) is by Berthault after Desprez and Lesage. The remaining plates are after Lesage by Adam, Ballard, E. Collin, Gaitte, Perier (the map facing p. 44, v. 1).

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Binding: contemporary diced calf. Rebacked, preserving original backstrips with title and vol. no. in gilt on red and green labels. Gilt tooling along margins, edges and turn-ins of boards. Spine tooled in blind and gilt. Page edges marbled.

At lower left-hand corner of front pastedown of both vols. is C.E. Kenney's label; cf. catalog of Sotheby's London sale of 25 Oct. 1966, lot 2720.