Lot n° 321
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MONGE (Gaspard). Descriptive geometry. Leçons donnés aux éco - Lot 321
MONGE (Gaspard). Descriptive geometry. Leçons donnés aux écoles normales, l'An 3 de la république. Paris, Baudouin, An VII [1799]. In-4, vii-(1)-132 pages and 25 plates hors texte. Original first edition (with errata on verso of page vii).
"Descriptive geometry is the work best known to the general public. It is a method of representing points in space on a plane surface by double projection onto a horizontal plane which is then folded back onto the plane of the outline... This technique was the principle of all industrial and machine drawing in the 19th century" In French in the text n°202.
Bound in suite: MONGE & HACHETTE, Application de l'algèbre à la géométrie. Des surfaces du premier et second degré, à l'usage de l'École Polytechnique. Paris, Bernard, [An] XIII - (1805). (2) ff, 56 pp, (1) plate.
Brown half calf, spine ribbed and decorated (later binding c. 1840). Covers rubbed, brown spots.
Expert : Madame Elvire POULAIN-MARQUIS
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