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Nuovo Corso Completo Di Pubbliche Costruzioni Dietro Il Celebre Programma Di Mattia Giuseppe Sganzin. [[New Full Course Of Public Construction of The Famous Di Mattia Giuseppe Sganzin Program]]

Sganzin, Mattia Giuseppe · Venice

Author
Sganzin, Mattia Giuseppe
Date
1847
Place
Venice
Publisher
I.R. Privil, Antonelli
Language
Italian
Binding
3/4 leather
Format
Folio (13"x 19") Brown leather over marble boards. Spine has author/title in gilt on tan leather title block, volume number in gilt on green leather, both with gilt decorative rule. Joints tender on two volumes, otherwise very good. The first 3 volumes (Materia) are entirely text and tables. The next 5 volumes (Tavole) are bound in two (1-4, 5) and feature 318 measured drawings of bridges, dams, jetties, and other public construction projects. Plan of the work: "Materials. Construction and foundation in general. Applications to the construction of ordinary and railways roads. Viaducts and fixed bridges of wall, wood and metal, roof bridges and movable bridges - Internal and artificial navigation, irrigation, aqueducts , sewers, artesian and absorbent wells.
Category
Architecture, Art & Craft
Record
S.I.1552

Nuovo Corso Completo Di Pubbliche Costruzioni Dietro Il Celebre Programma Di Mattia Giuseppe Sganzin. [New Full Course Of Public Construction of The Famous Di Mattia Giuseppe Sganzin Program] 1847. Venice: I.R. Privil, Antonelli.

Folio (13"x 19") Brown leather over marble boards. The spine features author/title in gilt on a tan leather title block, with the volume number in gilt on green leather, both accompanied by a gilt decorative rule. Joints tender on two volumes, otherwise very good. The first 3 volumes (Materia) are entirely text and tables. The next 5 volumes (Tavole) are bound in two (1-4, 5) and feature 318 measured drawings of bridges, dams, jetties, and other public construction projects. Plan of the work: "Materials. Construction and foundation in general. Applications to the construction of ordinary and railway roads. Viaducts and fixed bridges of wall, wood, and metal, roof bridges and movable bridges - Internal and artificial navigation, irrigation, aqueducts, sewers, artesian and absorbent wells.

Mattia Giuseppe Sganzin (1750–1837), known in France as Joseph-Mathieu Sganzin, was a French civil and maritime engineer, inspector general of public works, and professor at the École Polytechnique, renowned for his influential engineering treatise Cours de construction that shaped 19th-century civil engineering education across Europe.

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