Author: LACROIX Eugène :
Title: Etudes sur l'Exposition de 1867, ou les Archives de l'Industrie au XIXème siècle. Nouvelle technologie des Arts et Métiers, des Manufactures, de l'Agriculture, des Mines, etc. Description générale, encyclopédique, méthodique et raisonnée de l'état actuel des Arts, des Sciences, de l'Industrie et de l'Agriculture dans toutes les nations. Complete- 8 volumes of text and 2 plate volumes;
Description: .: Paris, Librairie scientifique, industrielle et agricole, s.d. ( 1867-1868), 8 vols in-8° ( text) ; 2 vols in-4° ( plates). Complete , as published. The text fascicules (issues) 1 - 41 , bound in 8 vols. The plates published in two atlases; Atlas I comprising the plates for the issues 1-20 contains 135 plates (many folding). Atlas II covers the issues 21-41 and contains the plates 137 - 258. Apart from the plate n° 136 which seems to be missing complete with ca. 5000 pp of text and 257 plates. Uniformly bound in black half morocco, raised spines with gilt title , marbled end papers. Fine copies, with near stainless interiors. Publication in French. Livre en français. Exhaustive survey of industrial and agricultural technology at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century as presented at the Paris World Fair of 1867. Eugène Lacroix, being also the editor of ''Les annales du Génie civil'' was surrounded by competent collaborators and specialists in the diverse fields which are treated in this publication: printing, photography, telegraphy, steam engines for railways, stationary or boats, diving apparatus, mills, chemistry, .... .

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