Augustin Charles d’Aviler:
Dictionnaire d’architecture civile et hydraulique, et des arts qui en dépendent: comme la maçonnerie, la charpenterie, la menuiserie, la serrurerie, le jardinage, &c. la construction des ponts & chaussées, des ecluses, & de tous les ouvrages hydrauliques. […] Nouvelle édition corrigée, & considérablement augmentée.
Paris, chez C. A. Jombert, 1755. 28,5 x 22 cms. XIV + 368 pp. + printed letterpress table
Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, raised bands, red edges. Slightly worn, crack to front upper joint, slight discoloration / browning of first few leaves. Ownership inscription of Åke Setterwall dated 1939.
Brunet II 540. First separate edition, complete. Art historian Åke Setterwall (1906-88) wrote his doctoral dissertation in 1945 about the architect Erik Palmstedt.