Live auction - Lot 279
[Mathematics - Geometry]
Essais de géométrie, sur les plans et les surface courbes [...].
Paris, Fuchs, Régent & Bernard, 1795
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: vii-[1]-116-[1] pp.; 7 pl. (some spotting).
Mod. quarter leather, spine with raised bands. Wide-margined, uncut copy.
First edition of Lacroix's first work ill. with 7 fold. engr. pl. Lacroix (1765-1843) was a French mathematician.
Ref. BnF.
Prov. Werner Gunther (bookpl.).
Joined: 1. Clermont, Paul de - La geometrie pratique de l'ingenieur, ou L'art de mesurer [...]. Strasbourg, Regnauld Doulssecker, 1723. 4to; 27 pl. (some margins stained, some frayed edges). Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. raised spine, red edges (corners rubbed and bumped, sides rubbed, front joint splitting, def. on head and tail). Third ed. (1st 1693) by the artillery and military engineer de Clermont dedicated to Vauban. Ill. with 27 fold. engr. pl. Covering subjects such as trigonometry, planimetry, stereometry, wooden frames, building fortresses and how to use a level. Ref. BnF. - Honeyman II:724 (1st ed.). - 2. George, P. - Dictionnaire de la géographie. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1970. 4to. Bound with wr. (3 vol.)