MONGE, Gaspard.

Description de l'Art de fabriquer les Canons...

60 folding engraved plates & four folding printed tables. 2 p.l., viii, 231 pp. Large 4to, orig. blue paste-paper wrappers (extremities quite frayed), entirely uncut. Paris: de l’Imprimerie du Comité de Salut Public, An 2 [1794]. First edition. When the Revolution began in 1789, Monge (1746-1818), one of the most widely known of French scientists, was a director of a branch of France’s military schools, enabling him to visit iron mines, foundries, and factories and thus becoming an expert on metallurgical and technological questions. From September 1793 until October 1794, he took part in the work of the Committee on arms, writing the present “important” (D.S.B.) work on the making of cannons. Good copy, handsomely illustrated. Preserved in a box. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ D.S.B., IX, p. 472.

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