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VARIGNON, Pierre.

Elemens de mathematique.

Paris: Pierre-Michel Brunet, fils, 1731.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002015

4to (252x195 mm), two parts in one volume. [12], 66, 155, [9] pp., including woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 22 folding engraved plates, pages untrimmed. Near contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments. Some creasing to first pages, large woodcut devices on red-colored by hand, occasional ink stains, text little browned and spotted throughout, a few leaves with scribbling in pencil to text margins and verso of some plates, marginal soiling to text and plates, repaired tear at fore-margin of one plate, light damp-staining to text and plates in places and some paper mould at gutter of text, worm hole to lower gutter affecting a few letters. Still good, wide-margined copy. ----

DSB XIII pp. 584-7; Cantor II, 526-7. - FIRST EDITION. "From the papers Varignon left at his death, most of which are now lost, his disciples assembled several posthumous works: Nouvelle mécanique (announced in the Project of 1687) and Eclaircissemens sur l'analyse des infiniment petits, both published in 1725, and Élémens de mathématiques (1731), which was based on his courses at the Collège Mazarin." (DSB XIII, p. 585).

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