[ARTS AND CRAFTS] DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. The Art o - Lot 36

[ARTS AND CRAFTS] DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. The Art of Roofing. N.p. [Paris], n.p. [Delatour], 1766. Folio, 19th-century black half-percale binding. 56 pp., 4 copperplate plates. Some scuffing (particularly along the edges), title page with browning and a few rare foxing spots, margins slightly frayed, some warping of the pages extending slightly onto the plates. First edition of this volume on the Art of Roofing, illustrated with 4 engraved plates. It is part of the collection *Description des Arts et Métiers* by the Royal Academy of Sciences, begun in 1709 and which included plates starting in 1761. With several library stamps on the title page and a hand-drawn library ex-libris in Italian. A fine copy.