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2 volumes 8vo (200 x 125 mm) 2 nn.l., LXXX, 520 pp., 3 nn.ll. and 6 plates for volume I; 2 nn.ll., 564 pp., 3 nn.ll. and 2 plates for volume II. Contemporary half sheep with corners.
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DSB, II, 334-35.
First edition.
An important 80-page introduction to the history of the subject from Leibniz onwards. The works of Abbé Charles Bossut (1730-1814), member of the Académie des Sciences, correspondent of the Berlin and Bologna Academies and honorary member of the Saint Petersburg Academy, served as the basis for teaching at the Collège de France, the Ecoles des Mines, du Génie, des Ponts-et-Chaussées, etc.
A good copy, with small wormholes in the binding.
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