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CHELUCCI, Domenico

Institutiones analyticae earumque usus in geometria cum appendice De constructione problematum solidorum [...]. Editio prima Neapolitana.

Naples, B. Gessari, 1755

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4to: [6]-iv-[2]-368 pp.; 4 pl. (foxing throughout, sm. marg. damp stains).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, sprinkled edges (browned on spine and edges, sm. stains, scribblings to front cover). Good copy.

First edition printed in Naples of this work on analytic geometry (1st: Rome, 1738). Illustrated with 4 fold. engr. plates in fine. The mathematician Chelucci (1681-1754) held the Chair of Rhetoric at the Sapienza, he taught mathematics for 20 years at the Collegio Nazareno in Rome and later became the Rector.
Ref. Riccardi I:346. - Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (http://mathematica.sns.it).
Prov. Ms. ownership entry on front flyleaf.
Joined: Tacquet, André - Elementa geometriae planae ac solidae, quibus accedunt selecta ex Archimede Theoremata [...]. Trigonometria plana ejusdem auctoris, et Sphaerica aliunde desumpta. Padua, [tipografia del Seminario?], 1761. 8vo: xvi-180 pp.; 17 pl. (first quires, 2nd half of the book and pl. dampstained in inner marg., foxing, spotting, right corner of last quires dog-eared, pl. 6 loosening). Cardboard (upper turn-in missing, sl. soiling, ms. annot. on covers, wormtrack). Student's edition of a course on geometry, and related subjects, by the Jesuit Tacquet (1612-1660) for use in Latin schools and universities in the Veneto. Ill. with 17 folding engr. plates with numerous diagrams. Ref. Opac SBN. - Cp. DBS VII:1807 (Padua, Manfré, 1761). (2 vol.)

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Lot 1213

Institutiones analyticae earumque usus in geometria cum appendice De constructione problematum solidorum [...]. Editio prima Neapolitana.

CHELUCCI, Domenico

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