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<dl><dd>Binding: contemporary mottled calfskin, rebacked and repaired. Centered on boards is laurel wreath containing a crowned Napoleonic eagle with thunderbolt, and the legend: Prix du Lycée Napoléon. Five-pointed stars at corners of boards. Spine tooled in gilt, with title on red label: GÉOMET / DESCRI. Edges of boards tooled in gilt</dd>
<dd>On verso of 3rd back free endpaper are remains of a prize label, awarded to [?] Louis, and dated 1809. At lower left corner of front pastedown is label of St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md. and at upper right of t.p. is its label in purple ink</dd>
<dd>The plates are signed: Girard del., Delettre sculp</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Geometry, Descriptive; Perspective</div>
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Monge, Gaspard, 1746-1818</div>
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