DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU - COURTIVON & BOUCHU - Descriptions d - Lot 49

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU - COURTIVON & BOUCHU - Descriptions des arts et métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Art du charbonnier; or how to make charcoal. Art des forges et fourneaux à fer. Paris, Chez Desaint & Saillant, 1761; in-folio, IV-30, 1 plate + 13 + 66 + 4 plates + 31 + 2 plates + 141 pp. + 16 plates, bound in black half calf, smooth spine, badly restored, edges chastened. Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, born in 1700 and died in 1782, was a French physicist, botanist and agronomist. A member of the Académie royale des sciences since 1738, of which he was elected President three times, he left an important body of work as a scientific writer in fields as varied as shipbuilding and service, fishing, wheat cultivation and conservation, and forest management. Appointed Inspector General of the Navy in 1739, in 1741 he created a marine school, which in 1765 became the École des Ingénieurs-Constructeurs. Continuing Réaumur's work, in 1757 he relaunched the Description des Arts et Métiers, opposing the Encyclopedists and Buffon. This volume deals with ironmaking. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY