Gustave EIFFEL

First edition, with a frontispiece photograph depicting Gustave Eiffel in his laboratory, and 28 plates outside the text, some folding (an additional copy of plate 26 is included).

Publisher’s binding in white cloth-backed boards with corners, flat spine showing some soiling and small tears at head and foot, printed paper label mounted on spine, printed title on upper board, corners slightly rubbed.

Pleasant internal condition.

A light water stain in the left margin of the frontispiece and at the foot of the lower cover, some soiling to the bottom of the upper cover, and a few pencil annotations in the margins.

The author presents the results of experiments...

London 1889, Mount: 28,7x38,4cm - photograph : 18,3x27,4cm, a photograph mounted.

Rare original portrait of Gustave Eiffel, carbon print mounted with the stamp of the Walery studio on mount.
Signed and inscribed to lower right corner of mount: "Au Camarade Richard Souvenir du banquet du 22 Nbre [18]89 G. Eiffel" (To fellow comrade Richard Souvenir of the banquet from 22 November [18]89 G. Eiffel)
This striking portrait of the engeneering legend was shot in the year of the tower's inauguration. Built on the occasion of the Paris Universal Exhibition, it was the tallest man-made structure at the time, towering 300 meters over the Parisian...

First edition. 
Publisher's binding.
Autograph inscription signed by Gustave Eiffel to Monsieur Puig.
A nice copy.

First edition printed in 500 copies hors commerce numbered on vellum.
Binders half grief fir corners past five nerves back, when golden tail, flat marbled paper, custody and contreplats of handmade paper, a scratch at the top of the first dish of the volume of plates, small traces of friction slices, gilded heads, binders of the time.
Rare and valuable autograph dedication signed by Gustave Eiffel, the amount of text to the school library of Levallois-Perret.
Levallois-Perret was heavily involved in the development and construction of the tower, Gustave Eiffel entertained a lifelong close relationship with the city.
"As early as 1866, the creation of the...

First edition, printed in a very small number of copies on vergé paper.
Handsome inscription from Gustave Eiffel to his daughter Valentine at head of upper cover.
Tiny wormholes to upper cover and title, otherwise a good copy.