Cours de stereometrie applique au jaugeage assujeti au systeme metrique, contenant les principes de l'art du jaugeage, et une nouvelle methode generale de l'art de jauger, approvee par Son Excellence le Ministre de l'Interieur, et par plusiers societes savantes, les moyens de construire les nouvelles jauges, un traite sur l'origine de la contenance de fatailles, une instruction sur le jaugeage des bateaux de des navires, suivie d'un tableau des pesanteurs specifiques des differentes matieres, enfin une table des rapports des mesures anciennes et nouvelles, et reciproquement, pour les divers liquides

Paris: Firmin Didot, 1806. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 190 pp. This work is an instructional manual and reference guide for the practice of "jaugeage," or guaging, in France during the First Empire. Gauging was primarily the estimation or indirect measurement of fluids packed in barrels, particularly wines and spirits. It also included the calculation of quantities of other bulk commodities such as grains, lumber, or oils commonly held in forms or under circumstances (e.g., in the holds of ships) which made direct measurement impossible. The system of guaging (truncated) was therefore of considerable importance as it provided for contractual exchange and assessment for taxation. OCLC locates four copies (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Paris-CNAM, Bibliotheek U. van Amsterdam, Bibliotheque Nationale), none in the United States. Internally fresh, with occasional soiling in margins. Very good. Contemporary calf (boards slightly rubbed at extremities, three tiny worm holes at top of spine), spine gilt with ornamentation. (#4318). (Inventory #: 57320)