Two knocks on wood

Goube, [I. J. C.] [AND] Mézièrs, N. la Camus de

Traité de la physique végétale des bois, et des principales opérations forestières, avec le modèle des actes à rédiger; terminé par le tableau des proportions qui doivent avoir les bois de construction pour la marine rapportées au calcul decimal. [WITH] Traité de la force des bois. Ouvrage essentiel, qui donne ley moyens de procurer plus de solidité aux edifices, de connoître la bonne & la mauvaise qualité des bois, de calculer leur force, & de ménager près de moitié sur ceux qu'on emploie ordinairement. Il enseigne aussi la maniere la plus avantageuse d'exploiter les forêts, d'en faire l'estimation sur pied, &c.

Published 1782- 1801
Item ID 74561
€250.00

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Paris, Goujon, 1801 [AND] Paris, Le Camus de Mézieres, Benoît Morin, 1782. Two works in one. 8vo (20.2 x 13.0 cm). xii, 326 pp.; two folded tables. [AND] 376, [ii] pp.; two engraved plates of which one larger, folded. 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental lines and title. Marbled endpapers. Speckled edges.

Two works on trees, timber, and forestry bound together. The first being a popular treatise on the physical properties of various trees and timber, and on forestry, with, as stated in the title, a table of the proportions of timber for marine construction, using the (new) decimal system. As such one of the earlier works on practical use of decimal numbers. Written by the lawyer and forester Ignace Joseph Casimir Goube (1750-1841). The second, by the French architect Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières (1721-1793), is a treatise on the strength of various kinds of wood, in particular the use of wood in reinforcing buildings, providing information on how to tell good from bad quality wood, how to calculate its strength, and on the most advantageous way of exploiting forests. Some light, scattered spotting, but otherwise very good, clean and unmarked. Neither in Brunet nor in Cat. BM(NH).

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