DUPAIN DE MONTESSON. La Science de l'arpenteur dans son étenduë ; nouvelle édition Corrigée et augmentée du Spectacle de la Campagne exprimé par des couleurs sur les Plans et les Cartes. Paris : l'auteur, C.A. Jombert père, 1775. - 2 parts in one volume in-12, 183 x 105: (4 ff.), 86 pp. (1 blank f.), 8 plates; (1 f.), 54 pp. 1 plate. Marbled calf, cold fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red edges (period binding). Partly original second edition, dedicated, like the first of 1766, to the Prince de Condé, of this practical treatise on surveying by cartographer and military officer Dupain de Montesson (1715?-179.). The part entitled "Le Spectacle de la campagne", found at the end with its own pagination, appears here for the first time. The edition is distinguished by being entirely engraved on copperplate, and includes a title frame, a full-page engraving designed and engraved by Chevalier, and 9 folding plates, 8 for the first part and one for the second. A fine copy in a very skilfully restored contemporary binding.