First edition. The book includes a preface by Jules Tannery who writes: "truly indispensable to those who must one day speak of symmetric functions, of the transformation of equations, of the resolution of third and fourth degree equations, of the equations of the division of the circle."
Our copy bears a butterfly and a stamp from the Vuibert bookstore which had to buy back the stock of the publisher Nony.
provenance: Stamp from "Taupe brutionne" french student's fraternity.