VALLÉE, Louis Léger. Traité de la géométrie descriptive.
Paris: Ve Courcier, 1819. First edition.

A fine copy of this treatise on descriptive geometry, dedicated to Gaspar Monge, and presented to the Académie Royale des Sciences, by Louis Léger Vallée (1784-1864). Vallée was a former pupil of Monge at the École Polytechnique and engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées" at Paris. He continued on Monge's teachings, and Vallée was the first to put descriptive geometry to use for artists, teaching them how to bring the rules into practice without having first to analyse them. His work, and especially his set of drawings was approved of by the Royal Academy, and the report, signed among others by Arago, the accepted authority on the subject within the Academy, is added to the preliminaries. Vagnetti FIb31; Poggendorff II, 1168.

Large 4to 264 x 212 mm. Bound in two (text & atlas) contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With portrait of Gaspard Monge (lithographed by C. de Last after a drawing by Elisée Bruyière.), engraved title to the atlas volume, and numerous illustrations of perspectival projections on 60 full-page engraved plates, including 3 double-page plates, in atlas-volume, by Ambroise Tardieu after designs by the author. XX, 355, (1:blank); 8 pp. A very nice set, with the bookplates of the "Bibliothèque de l'École Régimentaire du Génie", and stamps on titles and in corners of the plates of the "Ecole des Mineurs et Sapeurs. Corps Royal du Genie" of Metz, and with 2 later stamps "Kaiserliche Fortification zu Metz" on first endpapers.