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Brard, C. P.

Traité des pierres précieuses, des porphyres, granits, marbres, albatres, et autres roches propres a recevoir le poli et a orner les monumens publics et les edifices particuliers; suivi de la description des machines dont on se sert pour tailler, polir, et travailler ces pierres; et d'un coup d'oeil général sur l'art du marbrier; ouvrage utile aux joailliers, lapidaires, bijoutiers; aux architectes, décorateurs, etc., etc.

800.00 €

Schierenberg Bookshop Antiquariaat

(Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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Brard, C. P.

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Paris, F. Schoell, 1808. 8vo (21.0 x 13.4 cm). Half title, title pages, xxvii, 565 pp.; eight [5; 3] engraved plates of which several are larger, folded. Near contemporary half-vellum over marbled boards. Spine with green morocco label with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers. = This work was published in two parts, here combined, with continuous pagination and plate numbering. One of the plates, shown also in Sinkankas, shows a lapidary at work, and a blueprint of his table and tools. Spine soiled, old private owner's inscription dated 1884 on the half title, small spot on the title page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Sinkankas, 897; Ward and Carozzi, 305
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