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Nouvelle Architecture Hydraulique, contenant l'art d´lever l'eau au moyen de différentes machines, de construire dans ce fluide, de le diriger, et généralement de l'appliquer. de diverses manieres, aux besoins de la société. 1.-2. Partie. 2 Vols.
Paris, Firmin Didot, 1790-96. Large 4to. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabes with gilt lettering. Wear to top of spines. A paperlabel pasted on spines. stamps on title-pages. XII,621,(3),71(tables)(2),203,(1) pp., 53 large folded engraved plates (numb. 1-52, no. 42 omitted (lacks ?), 16 + 47 bis). Occassional light browning to margins.
First edition of Prony's famous lectures on hydraulics, where volume two deals with the construction of steam-engines. At the time of publication he was inspector at the École des Ponts et Chaussés.
Neue Architectura Hydraulika. Erster Theil die Statik, die Dynamik, die Hydrostatik, die Hydrodynamik und die allgemeine Lehre von Maschinen, den dabei anwendbaren Kräften und den verschiedenen Umständen, welche auf das Gleichgewicht und die Bewegung ...
Frankfurth am Main, Andräischen Buchhandlung, 1795. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (10),652,72 pp. and 15 fine large folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine.
First German edition. A second volume was published 1801.
