[Palimpsest binding] Géométrie Descriptive

Leçons données aux écoles normales, l'an 3 de la République. Gaspard Monge. Paris, Baudouin, [1798]. Palimpsest binding, 4to, VII,(1),132 pp., complete with 25 folding engravings by Delettre after Gérard.

Half of one endpaper torn off, plates with small stains to edges outside the plate edge, name in ink to endpaper. A palimpsest is a reused piece of vellum serving as a manuscript and in this case as a bookbinding.