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BÉLIDOR, BERNARD FOREST DE. Architecture Hydraulique. 2 engraved frontispieces; 219 folding engraved plates; lacks the portrait of the author. [8], xii, 412; [8], 424, xxviii; viii, xiv, [2], 412, [32]; viii, 480, [40] pages, with preliminaries to Volumes 2/1 and 2/2 apparently transposed and partly bound out of order. 4 volumes. 4to, 310x230 mm, contemporary speckled boards, spines heavily worn; occasional toning of text, plates generally clean; uncut. sold as is. Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert, 1737-53
first edition of Bélidor's major work, a massive treatise on hydraulic engineering. "Concentrating on civil construction, he considers transportation, shipbuilding, waterways and water supply, ornamental fountains, windmills, and pumps, epitomizing their state on the eve of the Industrial Revolution"--Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 30. Berlin 3555; DSB I, 581-82; Singer, History of Technology IV, 443.
