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EULER, Leonhard.

Institutiones calculi differentialis cum eius usu in analysi finitorum ac doctrina serierum. Two volumes.

Pavia: Typographeo Petri Galeatii, 1787.

2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002596

4to (264 x 204 mm). [2], lxiv, 352; [2], 353-846 pp. Contemporary black half calf over blue marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt (hinges repaired, extremities rubbed). Text bright and crisp, upper blank corner of p.309/310 torn, a few pencil annotations. Fine, wide-margined copy.

Zeitlinger I, 1251. - VERY RARE SECOND EDITION, preferable to the first of 1755 for being enlarged by F. Speroni from manuscript notes by the author. "The first text book on the differential calculus which has any claim of being regarded as complete. And it may be said that many modern treatises on the subject are based on it." (W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics). This edition with "Eloge de M. Euler" par le Marquis de Condorcet: p. ix-liii.

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