L'Art de lever les plans de tout ce qui a rapport à la guerre, & à l'architecture civile & champêtre.

8vo: [xvi]-247 pp. (occ. min. soiling, large tear in title, frontisp. lacking).

Cont. mottl. calf, gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands, brown leather title label, red edges (sl. rubbed, corners bumped, head def.). Good copy.

Rare first edition of this surveying and mapmaking book by the military engineer Dupain de Montesson (c. 1715-1790), who instructed the art of dressing a military map to Louis XVI and to the Duc de Berry, to whom the work is dedicated. Engr. ills: 5 folding tables and 5 folding plates showing surveying instruments, how to execute a land survey and how to dress maps, for military use and for civil and rural architecture. Ref. Conlon 63:798. - Bn-Opale plus.