"Elementos de Matematica" (Elements of Mathematics), by the Spanish architect and mathematician Benito Bails (1730-1797). Engraving with depiction of workers labouring in a riverbed. Volume IX, 2nd part, which treats the civil architecture. Published in Madrid, 1790.

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