Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1833. Grand in-8* broche de XVII + 598 pages, 2cartes depliantes en fin de volume. Couverture d'origine en papier imprime bleu, ouvrage neuf, non coupe.Tres bon etat.
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.