Géométrie descriptive
Subtitle: leçons données aux écoles normales, l'an 3 de la République
By: par Gaspard Monge
Publisher: Baudouin
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Descriptive Geometry; Early works to 1800; Perspective
Notes: The plates are signed: Girard del., Delettre sculp.

Binding: contemporary mottled calfskin, rebacked and repaired. Centered on boards is laurel wreath containing a crowned Napoleonic eagle with thunderbolt, and the legend: Prix du Lycée Napoléon. Five-pointed stars at corners of boards. Spine tooled in gilt, with title on red label: GÉOMET / DESCRI. Edges of boards tooled in gilt.

On verso of 3rd back free endpaper are remains of a prize label, awarded to [?] Louis, and dated 1809. At lower left corner of front pastedown is label of St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md. and at upper right of t.p. is its label in purple ink.