Marc SEGUIN

First edition. Illustrated with a lithograph showing sections and views of the Tain-Tournon bridge project, then under construction.
3/4 marbled roan binding, spine framed and decorated in gilt, red morocco title-piece, marbled paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and flyleaves. Spine, spine-ends and corners rubbed, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.

Extremely rare pamphlet by Seguin on a prototype suspension bridge built over the Galore river at Saint-Vallier in Isère. It served as an experimental construction for the Tain-Tournon bridge, the world's first large suspension bridge invented by Seguin using metal wires.

New edition, being a reprint of the original edition published in 1839.

A few minor spots of foxing, mainly affecting the edges; pencil annotations by a previous owner to the title page.

Bound in green Russian half morocco, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, pebble-grained endpapers and pastedowns, doublure covers preserved, sprinkled top edge.

Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Marc Seguin the Elder, complete with the folding plan and six folding plates at the end of the volume.