GAUTIER, HENRI (1660-1737) Traité des ponts, où il est parlé de ceux des Romains, & de ceux des modernes [Related, by the same author] Dissertation sur l'épaisseur des culées des ponts, sur la largeur des piles In Paris, by A Cailleau, 1716 and 1717 Two works in one volume, in-8, [4] f., 215 p., [2] f. and 68 p., fr., pl., contemporary marbled brown basane, 5-ribbed spine, garnet-toned title page, ornate caissons Rare collection of two works on bridge construction by H. Gautier, architect and engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, born in Nîmes in 1660, died in 1737. The Traité des ponts is illustrated with 26 fold-out plates; the Dissertation is illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 plates on a single fold-out leaf; all engraved on copper. (Binding very worn, corners worn, some scattered foxing)