GIRAUD (Pierre). - Lot 119

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GIRAUD (Pierre). - Lot 119
GIRAUD (Pierre). The Tombs , or the burial trial. Paris: the author, Desenne, Méquignon, Year 9 (1801). - In-4, 278 x 215: (2 ff.), iv, 47 pp., 2 plates. Half ivory scroll with corners, smooth spine (binding of the XIXth century later). Second very rare edition, partly original, of this "Work in which the Author recalls the Customs of the Ancient Peoples; summarily quotes those observed by the Moderns; gives the procedures for dissolving flesh, calcining human bones, converting them into an indestructible substance, and composing the medallion of each individual" (title). Pierre Giraud was the architect of the courthouse, prisons and remand prisons in the Seine department. This edition has increased this edition of a project for a sepulchral monument for the city of Paris and more broadly the department of the Seine, "suitable for the dissolution of flesh and the vitrification of human bones ". The edition is illustrated with 2 large and beautiful plates engraved by E. Noysard, representing the perspective elevation, the plan and the section of the monument. A few minor defects of use at the binding. Scattered freckles. Upper left edge of the boards cut with slight damage to the engravings.
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