FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy.

Mémoire sur la Maniére de reconnoitre les différentes Espéces de Pouzzolane, et de les employer dans les constructions sous l'eau et hors de l'eau; pour servir de Suite & de Supplément aux Recherches sur la Pouzzolane de M. Faujas de Saint-Fond.

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Two engraved plates. 52, [3] pp. 8vo, attractive antique calf-backed speckled boards, spine gilt,red morocco lettering piece on spine. Amsterdam & Paris: Nyon, 1780. First edition, “a sequel to the author’s Recherches sur la Pouzzolane (Paris, 1778), describing the different kinds of pozzolana employed in building and construction.”–Neville, I, p. 446. This is the most uncommon of the several works Faujas wrote on pozzolana. “In the course of his journeys in Southern France [Faujas] found a volcanic tuff identical with the Pozzuolo earth, and established the flourishing industry of the preparation of cement.”–Zittel, p. 46. Fine copy.

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