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BURGSDORF || BAUDRILLART, Nouveau manuel forestier , 1808
BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph.
Nouveau manuel forestier à l'usage des agens forestiers de tous grades, des arpenteurs, des Gardes des bois impériaux et communaux, des préposés de la marine pour la recherche des bois propres aux constructions navales.
Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, 1808.
Two volumes 8vo (203x124 mm), liii-445 pages and 27 plates and 2 folding tables / (4)-579 pages and 5 plates. binding : Contemporary quarter calf, gilt flat spines. First joints splitting on few centimeters. Large waterstain, more intense on volume 2. Lack on the lower corner of plate 4.
First french edition.
French translation by Jacques-Joseph Baudrillart of the reference book by Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorf, a German forest specialist famous throughout Europe. The first volume contains a summary of the forest code, a general section on natural history, and the description of several hundred plant species found in forests and woods. In the second, there are chapters containing introductions to geometry, mechanics, and civil and naval construction. The tree to be felled is considered to provide parts useful for shipbuilding. It should be noted that the work comes three years after the defeat at Trafalgar, where the English had annihilated the French fleet.
Copy signed by the author.
Price : 600 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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