BELIDOR, BERNARD FOREST DE. La Science des Ingenieurs dans la Conduite des Travaux de Fortification et d'Architecture Civile. Engraved allegorical additional title; 53 plates, most double-page orfolding. 6 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary calf

BELIDOR, BERNARD FOREST DE. La Science des Ingenieurs dans la Conduite des Travaux de Fortification et d'Architecture Civile. Engraved allegorical additional title; 53 plates, most double-page orfolding. 6 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, front joint discreetly restored at top and bottom, rear joint cracked; somelight toning of contents. Paris: Claude Jombert, 1729 E800-1200 FIRSTEDITION of Belidor's classic work on engineering. "The first two books treat of mechanics as they apply to the engineering and constructionof foundations, walls, and vaults, and the third deals with the properties of materials and their use. Book four treats the construction of military and civil structures. . . Book five concerns itself with applied decoration . . . Finally, book six explains the technique by which plans are drawn"-Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 30. DSB I, 581-82.