MALLET, Alain Manesson (1630-1706). La Geometrie Pratique, Divisée en Quatre Livres. Paris: "Chez Anisson, Directeur de l' Imprimerie Royale," 1702. 4 volumes, large 8vo (223 x 142mm). Half titles, 2 engraved portraits, 493 engraved plates, tables, headpieces and ornaments (stain to a few plates in vol. II, some other light staining and spotting). Contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed, joints splitting). Provenance: George Kenyon (armorial bookplate, and old signature ("G. Kenyon, Peel Library") on the front free endpaper of vol. IV). FIRST EDITION. Not in Brunet; Cohen-de Ricci 673; Lewine Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books p.334 (calling, erroneously, for a total of 500 plates): "The work is interesting on account of the 335 views of Paris monuments (long since disappeared), and of historical castles chiefly in the surroundings of Paris, such as Versailles, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleu, Chantilly, etc." It also includes, at the end of vol. IV, views of Richmond, Greenwich, Windsor and Lambeth Palace. (4)
