AINÉ, GOURY G.

Souvenirs Polytechniques ou Recueil D'Observations, Mémoires et Projets, concernant la Navigation interieure, les Bacs, les Desséchements, les Portes maritimes, les Routes, les Ponts, L'Architecture, et autres Objets divers. Vol 1 (out of 3).

Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1827.

4to. Uncut, partly unopened in contemporary (original?) marbled wrappers. Wear to extremities and missing part of spine. Internally fine. XI, (1), 376 pp. 

First edition (of the first text-volume) of this scarce work by French engineer Ainé of water related constructions, and all sort of waterworks, construction of Canals, harbours, bridges, pump-houses etc. in Italy and France.

Ainé was the French Chief Engineer of Roads and Bridges, member-professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and privately did extensive research on the arts of antiquity and their emigration from the East.

Order-nr.: 59961