Online auction - Lot 391
[Mathematics]
Récréations mathématiques et physiques [...]. Nouvelle édition, revûe, corrigée et augmentée.
Paris, Ch.-Ant. Jombert, 1741
Starting bid: €
160
€ 200 / 300
Bidding via DrouotLot description
4 vol., 8vo; 136 pl. (foxing, occ. staining).
Mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red spr. edges (sl. rubbed, some def.).
Ill. with 136 engr. pl. (some folding). Contains also the treatise on clocks by the Italian Dominique Martinelli de Spolete (1st 1663, Venice) and further observations on water clocks, natural phosphors, perpetual lamps, etc.
Ref. COPAC. - BnF. - Not in Caillet, Wellcome.
Prov. Contemp. ms. entry.