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DARLES DE LINIERE, Pompes sans cuirs, 1768

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DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 

Pompes sans cuirs. 

Paris, Manufacture royale, 1768.

4to (248x200 mm), (8)-91-(1) pages and 7 folding plates.  binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Joints splitted with loss of leather. A plate unbound. Some waterstains. 

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First edition.
Darles de Linière presents his pump models in which the leather bladders and valves were replaced by copper pistons. The plates show models of merchant ship pumps, wheeled fire pumps (the ancestor of the fire truck), and pumps for raising water from wells.

provenance: Stamp from Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale. Sticker from E. Nourry bookseller.

Price : 400 €

Photo DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 
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Photo DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 
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