BELIDOR, BERNARD FOREST DE. Architecture Hydraulique. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1737-53. Titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved frontispiece, 219 engraved folding plates and engraved headpieces. 4to, 2 vols. in 4, contemporary calf, central gilt cipher on each cover, rebacked, corners repaired; occasional light browning. FIRST EDITION, of enormous interest to 18th-century engineers (see a copy of the German edition, annotated by August Rbing in our Koslov sale, 12. Nov. 1996 lot 56) describing problems of transportation, shipbuilding, waterways, water supply, and fountains. Brunet I:740; Graesse I:324. (4)