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Description de L'Art de Fabriquer les Canons
by Monge Gaspard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Comité de Salut Public, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Vellum). Very Good Condition. Later half vellum over decorative paper boards. 4 tables and 60 plates, mostly folding. Some browning and discoloration to the plate margins where they protrude from the book, scattered creasing to plates, but otherwise bright and unmarked. Monge, the inventor of descriptive geometry turns his attention to the defense of post-revolutionary France. A proponent of the revolution, Monge was Minister of the Marine from 1792 to 1793 and then, after appeals from the Committee for Public Safety, wrote this treatise on cannon making. [4], viii, 231pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Military & Warfare; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042311.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042311
- Title
- Description de L'Art de Fabriquer les Canons
- Author
- Monge Gaspard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Half Vellum)
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Comité de Salut Public
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1794
- Keywords
- Military & Warfare; Antiquarian & Rare. NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Rare;
Terms of Sale
Pazzo Books
Returns accepted for any reason within 30 days of shipment - full refund less shipping. If we have made a mistake, we will pay shipping both ways. Institutions billed according to their requirements.
About the Seller
Pazzo Books
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Roslindale, Massachusetts
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About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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