MILLIET DECHALES, Claude François. Cursus seu Mundus Mathematicus. 1674.
MILLIET DECHALES, Claude François.
Cursus seu Mundus Mathematicus.
Lyon, ex officina Anissoniana, 1674.
Folio (350x220 mm), (40)-763-(1 bl.) / (28)-731-(1 bl.) / (36)-863-(1 bl.) pages and 3 manuscript leaves bound in part 3 between pages 404 and 405 and at the end. binding : Contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt in seven compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece. Binding rubbed with lack of leather on lower cover of part 3, caps and corners worn. Light waterstains and foxing. Title pages reinforced at inner margins, erased stamps and lot of ownership inscriptions, without free endpaper.
First edition of the most important work of Milliet Dechalles.
Complete Mathematics course, which also covers other topics sciences (mechanical, architecture, optics, perspective, astronomy, ..).
We usually meet the second edition published in 1690 in four volumes.
This first edition, complete in three volumes is quite rare.
references: Sotheran [1st suppl. 1033 : "rare"], DSB [III, p. 621 : "Cantor gives a detailed description of the Cursus both because it was a popular and widely used textbook and because it refleted the totality of mathematical knowledge as possessed by dilettantes or amateurs mathematicians"].
provenance: Jean Cassinet (booklabel on the paste-down endpaper), Parochi, Melchior si Witis Lewis (?) and Duborgal (ownership inscription on title).
Price : 3000 €
