Description
Models de Topographie, dessinés et lavés, by A. M. Perrot, member of the Société Philotechnique, of L’Athénée des Arts, of the Société de Géographie, of the Société Royale Académique des Sciences, of celle D’Agronomie Pratique, etc.
Troisième edition, revue et augmentée.
A Paris, chez Anselin, successeur de Magimel, Libraire pour L’Art Militaire, les Sciences et les Arts. 1831
Topography models, drawn and washed, by A. M. Perrot, member of the Philotechnical Society, the Ateneo de las Artes, the Geographical Society, the Royal Academic Society of Sciences, the Practical Agronomy Society, etc.
Third edition, revised and enlarged.
In Paris, at Anselin, successor to Magimel, Bookseller of Arts, Sciences and Military Arts. 1831
Period binding in hardcover cardboard lined in paper with embossed decoration, leather spine with gilt title. Format 25.2 x 20 cm. 36 + 32 (blank with watermark) pages of fine laid paper, plus 12 plates/plates/engravings in black and white and color outside pagination on heavier paper (plate 13 exists but is printed as page 29 in the paper). Tinted edges.
Authors of the plates: A. M. Perrot del. Mme. Brianchon sculpt.
A. M. Perrot, 1829. Engraved by P. Tardieu.
The plates are copper engravings, some watercolored by hand.
Rare and beautiful original textbook on topography, geology and cartography that, with the help of symbols and chromatic nuances, orders the image of the map, as detailed as it is clear and easy to grasp. The panels with very finely engraved details, such as water depths, rocky and sandy shorelines, grassy landscapes, forests, parks, residential and industrial settlements to civil and military installations. One panel with “Signes Conventionnels”, one with “Écriture moulée” type examples, the last sheet with a “Tableau des anciennes et des nouvelles échelles”.
Original from 1831, in French, printed in Paris. rare specimen. Scuffed corners, some slightly tanned leaves with virtually no rust spots, but overall in very good condition for almost 200 years.
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