BORGNIS, Giuseppe Antonio (c. 1781-- )
Dictionnaire de mécanique appliquée aux arts: ... ouvrage faisant suite au Traité complet de mécanique appliquée aux arts; par M. J.A. Borgnis, ingénieur, ...
Paris (Place), Bachelier, libraire, successeur de Madame Veuve Courcier,, 1823.
[4], iii, [1], 284 p. ; 25.7 cm. (4°)

Terms are arranged alphabetically from 'Abaque' to 'Zoolique'. Borgnis's Traité complet de mécanique appliquée aux arts (q.v.) was published in the same year.

Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting the initial (half-title?) leaf. Purchased from Priestley and Weale's Catalogue of books on architecture, 1831, item 52, '12s'. (q.v.). Bound (1) with L.-A. Beaudemoulin, Recherches théoriques et pratiques sur la fondation par immersion des ouvrages hydrauliques, Paris, 1829 (q.v.).

Binding C19th light tan calf, gilt roll-tooled borders, pink endpapers, gilt double-rule spine, dark green morocco spine-label. Edwin Hutchinson was paid 5s. 6d. for binding this work on 6 June 1831. (Priv. Corr.XVI.E.7.16, bookbinding).

Reference Number 1730

Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin; Priestley and Weale