SCIENCES - Popularization book with systems / " Travail et P - Lot 175

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SCIENCES - Popularization book with systems / " Travail et P - Lot 175
SCIENCES - Popularization book with systems / " Travail et Progrès au XX° " by Philippe Hettinger, Paris Librairie Commerciale, circa 1907, large Italian-style in-4 (34 x 24 cm), full grey-blue cloth publisher's binding, 1st plate with allegorical illustration - Album exposing modern inventions of the beginning of XX° by presenting them in dismantling models (each model is made up of several superimposed cuts of the subject, (each model is made of several superimposed cuts of the subject, which allow to understand the functioning and the manufacturing), with each one an explanatory legend detailing about a hundred elements - each model is presented on a strong cardboard - The models are : the English locomotive, the steam turbine, the gas generator, the Panhard automobile, the petroleum engine, the electric motor, the submarine and the automobile torpedo (condition: the cover is sunned and stained, the foot of the spine has a tear, all the models are complete and the interior is fresh except for a few spots)
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