LA GOURNERIE (Jules de). Traité de géométrie descriptive. Pa - Lot 96

LA GOURNERIE (Jules de). Traité de géométrie descriptive. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1862-1873. Two volumes in-4, contemporary midnight-blue glazed calf, spine gilt on 4 edges, author, title and subtitle gilt, 3 gilt fillets on caissons, same as on boards, gilt prize mention in the center of one upper board, double gilt fillet on edges, interior roulette, gilt edges (discreet scuffing on one board, sporadic browning sometimes sustained). A fine, well-bound copy, given as a prize by the Association des anciens élèves de l'école municipale Lavoisier in 1880. The first volume contains the 3 parts of the text (the first in its second edition of 1873, the second and third in their first editions of 1862 and 1864). The second volume contains the plates corresponding to these three parts, totalling 150 plates.