HACHETTE, Jean Nicolas Pierre (1769-1834). Programme du Cours Elementaire des Machines.

HACHETTE, Jean Nicolas Pierre (1769-1834).  Programme du Cours Elémentaire des Machines, pour l' An 1808 ... [On the same title:] José Maria LANZ (1764-1839) and Agustin de BETANCOURT (1758-1824).  Essai sur la Composition des Machines. Paris: De l' Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. 4to (247 x 190mm). Half title, 12 folding engraved plates (some mainly marginal spotting and waterstaining). Contemporary limp vellum (stained, wrinkled, some wear to spine). Provenance:  "5e. Régt. De Curassiers" (old stamp on title and on verso of final plate); "Bibliotheque A. Montcaurant, Strasbourg" (stamp on title); author’s names written in pencil on half title; some old annotation on verso of half title and title. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of Lanz and Betancourt's fundamental system of mechanical classification. Bibliotheca Mechanica 153; not in Brunet.