Mémoire sur les fontaines de la ville de Narbonne avec un devis des ouvrages pour leur rétablissement.

A Montpellier, De l'Imprimerie de la Ve. d'Honoré Pech, 1720. With a nice engraved headpiece. 27, (1) pp. 4to. Modern boards. Not in Conlon. First edition, very rare, dealing with the water supplies to the city, difficulties, natural circumstances, remedies. Jean de Clapiès was elected 'correspondant' of the Academy of Sciences in 1702 and was charged with the observations of the eclipse of the sun on May 12, 1706. He became general director of Public Works of the Languedoc, and professor of mathematics in 1718. The Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, vol. vii, writes: 'Il n'avait publié qu'un court mémoire sur les apparences de la lune éclipsée.'