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BAADER, Joseph. Projet d' une Nouvelle Machine Hydraulique pour Rempler l' Ancienne Machine de Marly; suivi de l' apperçu d' un autre moyen de fournir des eaux a la Ville et aux Jardins de Versailles, sans employer la force motrice de la riviere, Paris: chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1806. 4° (281 x 210mm.). Half title, 2 folding engraved plates, errata leaf at end. (A few light spots). Contemporary French scarlet straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt border and central crowned cipher "E", spine decorated in gilt. (Extremities rubbed, a few light scuff marks). Provenance cipher of Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), son of Josephine and adopted son of Napoleon, later Viceroy of Italy; "Douane Centrale Exportation Paris" stamp on front free endpaper.
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