Online auction - Lot 370
[Mathematics]
An analytick [sic] treatise of conick sections, and their use for resolving of equations in determinate and indeterminate problems. Being the posthumous work of the Marquis de L'Hospital, honorary fellow of the Academy Royal of Sciences. Made English by E. Stone.
London, for J. Senex, W. Taylor, W. and J. Innys, & J. Osborn, 1723
Starting bid: €
120
€ 150 / 250
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4to: vii-[1]-351-[1] pp.; 33 pl. (brown staining in inner margin of 1st ff., marg. damp stains to last ff. and one larger on last pl.).
Mod. cloth, original leather boards preserved, spine with raised bands (covers rubbed, pastedowns and flyleaves renewed).
First English edition (1st posthumous French ed.: 1707). Illustrated with 33 fold. plates. The French mathematician L'Hospital (1661-1704) studied with the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernouilli.
Ref. ESTC T147210.
Lot 370
An analytick [sic] treatise of conick sections, and their use for resolving of equations in determinate and indeterminate problems. Being the posthumous work of the Marquis de L'Hospital, honorary fellow of the Academy Royal of Sciences. Made English by E. Stone.
L'HOSPITAL, Guillaume-Antoine-François de