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Grollier de Servière, Gaspard (1676-1745) Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique.
Lyon: David Forey, 1719.
First edition, quarto, title page printed in red and black, engraved head-piece, and eighty-five full-paged engravings by Étienne-Joseph Daudet (numbering irregular, plates numbered 1-88, but plates 39, 48, and 76 seem not to have been printed, and are not called for in the instructions to the binder); ex libris John, Earl of Bute, with his engraved armorial bookplate on verso of title, and engraved Luton Library bookplate inside front board; bound in contemporary speckled calf boards, gilt-tooled spine, rebacked, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
This beautifully illustrated catalogue of inventions and instruments is based on the collection of Nicolas Grollier de Servière (1676-1745), our author's grandfather. Folding ladders, a wheelchair, many mills, the book wheel for omnivorous readers, pontoon boats, clocks run by marble raceways, inventive wells, and more are all meticulously engraved and described in detail.
