[Perronet, Jean-Rodolphe]
[Description des projets et de la construction des ponts de Neuilly, de Mantes, d'Orleans et autres]
£882
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
[Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1788]. Second edition, plate volume only, large folio (59 x 41cm), 20th-century half morocco, engraved portrait, 74 engraved plates (numbered 1-73, with 3 plates numbered 34, but lacking plate 59), mostly double-page, several also folding, all edges untrimmed, damp-stains to lower edges, plates 24-6 with light worming to central fold;
Desgodetz, Antoine. Les edifices antiques de Rome … Gli edifizi antichi di Roma. Rome: Vincenzo Poggioli, 1822. Folio, contemporary cloth, 137 engraved plates, rear joint split;
Roy, William. The Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain. Published by the order, and at the expense of, the Society of Antiquaries of London. London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1793. Large folio (53 x 35cm), 20th-century half calf, 50 engraved plates (of 51: lacking plate 35), marginal repairs to prelims;
[Thomson, James. Atlas of Scotland. Edinburgh: for John Thomson & Co., 1832]. Folio, 20th-century half calf, 2 engraved plates ('A Comparative View of the Heights of the Principal Mountains of Scotland' and 'A Comparative View of the Lengths of the Principal Rivers of Scotland') both hand-coloured, 29 engraved maps, all folding, a few with inset town plans, many on multiple sheets, lacking title-page, crude tape-repairs to prelims and ‘A Comparative View of the Heights …’ plate (4)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
Footnote
The first edition of Perronet's foundational work on bridge-building was published in 1782-3.