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1743 · 045102 — Franckfurt and Leipzig Germany: Rengerischen Buchhandlung 1743. Book. Good. Half-Leather. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original 1/2 leather brown paper covered boards five raised spine bands with gilt compartments gilt title label color wallpaper endsheets. Binding leather rubbed along joints and creased from use joints tender but intact. Covers rubbed with exposure along edges with partial surface paper loss. xiv73428 pp. illus. w/ 44 folding numbered and lettered with 24 letters omitting J and U as expected plates geometric trigonometric mechanical aerometrical hydraulic perspectival astronomical geographical architectural more some with rubbing to fore-edges from improper folding. We note that an earlier edition of this work with a register of plates notes 45 plates but it appears that one plate Astron. IV was deleted from this New 1743 Edition as this copy shows no evidence of removal in the binding gutter and the lettering of adjacent plates V W is sequential without omission. Lacks front flyleaf a few period notations inked on main title contents with scattered internal notations. According to Arthur Warda's catalogue in his Immanuel Kants Bücher 1922 Kant owned a 1749 edition of this work in his personal library. Rengerischen Buchhandlung Hardcover