Author: HASSENFRATZ, (J.H.)
Title: Traité théorique et pratique de l'art de calciner la pierre calcaire, et de fabriquer toutes sortes de mortiers, cimens, bétons, etc., soit a brass d'hommes, soit a l'aide de machines; ... Avec onze planches en taille-douce.
Description: Paris, Carilian-Goeury, libraraire des corps royaux des ponts et chausses et des mines, quai des augustins , no 41, Mme Huzard (Née Vallat-la-Chapelle), Libraire, Rue de l'éperon, no 7, 1825. Large in 4to. W. engr. portr. [w. a small watersp. to lower lefthand corner; 'Boilly pinx. ... Hassenfratz...'] and 11 fold. engr. pls. [Unsigned]. Modern overlapping full vellum, period style., title in manuscript on spine. [n3 [Half title, portr. and printed title], a1, b4, I-53 in 4s, 54 in 3]. (XVI, 430 pp.). (Uncut., some quires w. a few unopened lvs.). (Leaf 7 2-4 righthand blank margin some wormh.; top blank margin of leaf 37-4 torn away, no loss; on the whole a clean and fresh copy; some occasional light foxing in the text; the plates a few foxed spots.). (Authorization in ink on verso half title by 'Carilian-Goeury'). Assistant of Lavoisier, afterwards professor of minerology at the Ecole des Mines.: One of the most extensive works on mortars hitherto published and containing a full account of the researches of L.J.Vicat, but curiously enough silent on Joseph Aspdin's invention of Portland cement in 1824.

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