MINARD, Charles Joseph. Cours de construction des ouvrages qui établissent la navigation des riviéres et des canaux . Paris: Fain and Trunot for Carilian-Goeury and V. Dalmont, 1841.
MINARD, Charles Joseph. Cours de construction des ouvrages qui établissent la navigation des riviéres et des canaux . Paris: Fain and Trunot for Carilian-Goeury and V. Dalmont, 1841. 2 volumes, 4 o text (260 x 205 mm) and atlas 2 o (323 x 228 mm). 36 plates by Adam after Minard. (Some slight foxing to text, pale marginal dampstain at end). Contemporary quarter morocco (some light rubbing). FIRST EDITION of Minard's pioneering graphical work. The plates of the present work each contain several figures, finely engraved by Adam after Minard's drawings. From a graphical point of view, the first is the most striking, showing profiles of a river bed at different seasons superimposed on a contour map of the river. Other plates show great engineering details of bridge and tunnel construction, lock mechanisms, etc. [ With: ] Directions des cartes, plans et archives et de la statistique graphique. Album de statistique graphique . Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1880 and 1882. Together 2 volumes, 4 o . Each with16 large folding color maps of Paris, France and Europe showing roads, railroads, rivers, canals, tonnage statistics, etc. Original boards. (4)
MINARD, Charles Joseph. Cours de construction des ouvrages qui établissent la navigation des riviéres et des canaux . Paris: Fain and Trunot for Carilian-Goeury and V. Dalmont, 1841.
MINARD, Charles Joseph. Cours de construction des ouvrages qui établissent la navigation des riviéres et des canaux . Paris: Fain and Trunot for Carilian-Goeury and V. Dalmont, 1841. 2 volumes, 4 o text (260 x 205 mm) and atlas 2 o (323 x 228 mm). 36 plates by Adam after Minard. (Some slight foxing to text, pale marginal dampstain at end). Contemporary quarter morocco (some light rubbing). FIRST EDITION of Minard's pioneering graphical work. The plates of the present work each contain several figures, finely engraved by Adam after Minard's drawings. From a graphical point of view, the first is the most striking, showing profiles of a river bed at different seasons superimposed on a contour map of the river. Other plates show great engineering details of bridge and tunnel construction, lock mechanisms, etc. [ With: ] Directions des cartes, plans et archives et de la statistique graphique. Album de statistique graphique . Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1880 and 1882. Together 2 volumes, 4 o . Each with16 large folding color maps of Paris, France and Europe showing roads, railroads, rivers, canals, tonnage statistics, etc. Original boards. (4)
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