DE LA RUE. - Lot 213

DE LA RUE. Traité de la coupe des pierres, ou méthode facile et abrégée pour se perfectionner en cette science. Paris. Charles-Antoine Jombert. 1764. 1 large folio volume, full marbled calf, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title page. Remarkable for the abundance and quality of its illustrations, an engraved title and 73 numbered numbered engraved plates, most of them folding, with many repeated on both sides or on separate or on separate sheets to ensure optimum understanding of the text opposite. An attractive 18th-century watercolor pen-and-ink drawing of a lantern and its frame is included. lantern and its framework (22 x 35 cm). Discrete restorations to the spines, small epidermal marks on the covers and brown spots on the second cover. pale marginal wetness.