EIFFEL (Gustave). La Tour de 300 mètres. Paris, Société des - Lot 177

EIFFEL (Gustave). La Tour de 300 mètres. Paris, Société des imprimeries Lemercier, June 1, 1900. 2 volumes, large folio (55 x 38.5 cm) with [8] ff. frontispiece, [369] pp, [1] blank ff, [3] ff, 13, [1] pp + [3] ff, 66 plates. Contemporary brown half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed with title in gilt lettering, cold-stamped fillets, gilt heads. A fine copy of this rare title. First edition. Limited edition of 500 copies on wove paper, no. 241 for the text volume and no. 316 for the plate volume. The text volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Gustave Eiffel, 2 double plates reproducing signatures and autographs, and numerous figures and diagrams. Complete with the Appendix on Eiffel's work and the main structures built by his establishments from 1867 to 1890. The atlas comprises 53 double lithographed plates, many in color, numbered I to XLVII (including 8 pl. bis, ter or quater, plates XXVI and XXVII were never published), 13 heliogravures on 12 leaves showing the stages in the construction of the Eiffel Tower, and a double-page lithographed color map of the Paris area, all mounted on tabs. Colophon on last leaf of both volumes. In La Tour de 300 mètres, Eiffel has given scientific and technical descriptions, calculations and drawings of all the parts of his tower: foundations, metal framework, elevators and successive installations [...] The first modern and complete monograph of a building, La Tour de 300 mètres is the reference work for any study of 19th-century metal architecture. In French in the text, 326. Minor soiling to text volume, small restoration to binding of text volume.