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Azevedo Fortes (Manoel de): O Engenheiro Portuguez, dividido em dous tratados, Lisbon, Manoel Fernandes da Costa, 1728, 2 vols., 8vo, titles printed in red and black, half titles, engraved frontispiece in vol. 2 ( (?) lacking frontispiece for vol. I), engraved portrait and 34 folding plates, contemporary red morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of repeated scroll and flower heads, enclosing a panel with concave corners with a similar repeated design, the spine in 6 compartments, 5 decorated with a castle within a laurel wreath separated by raised bands (damage to head and foot of spines), sprinkled edges. (2)
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Azevedo Fortes (Manoel de): O Engenheiro Portuguez, dividido em dous tratados, Lisbon, Manoel Fernandes da Costa, 1728, 2 vols., 8vo, titles printed in red and black, half titles, engraved frontispiece in vol. 2 ( (?) lacking frontispiece for vol. I), engraved portrait and 34 folding plates, contemporary red morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a border of repeated scroll and flower heads, enclosing a panel with concave corners with a similar repeated design, the spine in 6 compartments, 5 decorated with a castle within a laurel wreath separated by raised bands (damage to head and foot of spines), sprinkled edges. (2)