MINES - Collection of various writings concerning... - Lot 115 - Giquello

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MINES - Collection of various writings concerning... - Lot 115 - Giquello
MINES - Collection of various writings concerning mining. S.l.n.d. [mid 18th century]. Manuscript in-8 (155 x 100 mm) of about 150 leaves, brown calf, ornamented spine, red title page, red speckled edges (Binding of the time). An 18th century mining engineering manuscript. In very legible handwriting, it is illustrated with about fifteen watercolour technical drawings showing miners' tools, how to blow up the piles of a bridge, how to set up the frames of a shaft, etc., and with a few geometric figures in the text. The manuscript consists of the following writings: Tables for the loading of the Mines and for the costs of the Chambers (15 ff.), Discourses on the mines and countermines (27 pages), Calculation of the chambers (5 pages), Table of the cube of the paraboloides (one page and 4 folded sheets), Passage of the ditch (11 pages), Proportions of the tools to miners (masses, wedges, punch, chisel, spade, testu, shovel, drag, drill bit, etc.), Of the air in the mines (1 page), Of the air in the chambers (1 page), Of the air in the chambers (2 pages).), De l'air dans les mines, Des puits : manière abrégée pour quarrer et cuber, Table des carrés et des cubes de suite commençant à la racine 100 (50 ff.), Table des circonférences et superficies des cercles depuis 1 jusqu'à 120, etc. Handwritten bookplate at the head of the volume: Le Chev. d'Artezé. Lower corner of the last 15 leaves nibbled by damp. Binding badly restored.
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