Fleuret. L'art de composer des pierres factices aussi dures que le caillou, et Recherches sur la manière de bâtir des Anciens, sur la préparation, l'emploi et les causes du du du doubtement de leurs mortiers. 1 Bl., 298 pp., 1 w. Bl. With 32 (28 double-leaf, 4 folded, 2 from Adam to Fleuret) copper plates. 28 x 21,5 cm. Marbled green semi-leather d. Zt. (corner with larger flaws, cover partly incomplete) with gold-embossed title and gold-plated. Paris, Magimel, 1807. See Karmarsch 491. Not at Poggendorff, Monglond, etc. – The only edition of the plant on the production and use of cement and concrete. Fleuret (c. 1755-1817; "ancien Professeur d'Architecture de l'École royale militaire de Paris") refers mainly to the "Recherches sur la préparation que les Romains donnaient à la chaux" (Paris 1777) by Polycarpe de La Faye. He was one of the first to provide an extensive description of ancient construction techniques and the production of artificial stones and the use of cement. Fleuret also reports on his own work in the production of artificial stones, which he carried out around 1800 at his own factory in Pont-à-Mousson. He goes into the materials (lime, sand, water) and describes the necessary facilities of a factory. From Chapter 13 onwards, he describes the connections of the walls, roads and other works of the Romans, from Chapter 20 onwards, his own processes for the production of artificial water pipes, including the equipment and machines used, and the construction and laying of the water pipes (including crossing a small river). Finally on bassins, cisterns, pumps and coloured mosaics of artificial stones. "As a whole the work forms an interesting episode in the history of building construction" (Elton cat. 6, 211). – Single small patchy. A table narrowly trimmed (loss of the frame).