Lot n° 584
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- Lot 584
Martin MALTA - Treaty of geometry serving as a regulation, to remedy abuses in the measurement of land, prez, wood, freestone, masonry, pavement. And solid cones, & barrel gauges, all by easy methods that can be learned without a master. A treatise of the servitudes of the builders according to the custom of the country of Liege being used as regulation to the experts & very-useful to the prelocutors, lawyers, & to those who see building.
Liège], is sold at the Author's, [1716 (date of privilege)] Petit in-4, brown calf of the time, mute back with five nerves (upper bit split at the head and tail).
[12], 205, [3] pp. A table illustrating the difference between the feet of St Hubert and St Lambert, 122 geometrical figures in the text as well as 9 plans of doors, windows or cornices and pilasters.
Handwritten sources on the guard: Jean Pierre Mathieu (notary in Florennes in 1719) and J. Baptiste Bondelle (?) bailiff in Couvin (1831). Ex-libris H. Deschryver and stamped Jean Mosselmans.
Short trimmed head, p. 143-144 soiled and stained, a few ink stains on the edges, traces of handling, a small marginal lack in the guard and title, the seam of the first plate apparent.
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