Monge (Gaspard) Géométrie Descriptive, first edition, half-title, 29 folding engraved plates, old ink ownership stamp at foot of title, contemporary paste-paper boards, rebacked and recornered in calf, black roan label, new endpapers, Paris, Baudouin, An VII [1799] § Francoeur (Louis Benjamin) An Introduction to Linear Drawing, translated by William B.Fowle, errata leaf and 2 folding engraved plates at end, diagrams, one plate torn at fold, Boston, 1828 § Minifie (William) A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing..., 4pp. reviews at beginning, engraved plates, Baltimore, 1850, the last two second editions, some spotting and browning, contemporary sheep, rebacked, all rubbed, the second with lower cover detached, the last stained, 4to & 8vo (3)

⁂ The first is a pioneering work on technical drawing, influential in the development of engineering. Monge was a mathematician and physicist, and one of the leading figures in the foundation of the École Polytechnique in 1794. The second item was first published in Paris in 1819 and is considered to be the the first drawing book introduced into American schools; the last was the first book on technical drawing to be published in America.