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LACROIX, Sylvestre-François.

Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique, et d'application de l'algèbre à la géométrie.

Paris, Duprat, An VII [1798].

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280 €

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Sylvestre-François Lacroix (1765-1843) is a French mathematician best known for his work on differential and integral calculus. He assists Monge in writing the descriptive geometry course given at the École normale de l'an III.

CARNOT, Lazare.

Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal.

Paris, Duprat, 1797.

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850 €

Rare first edition, complete with the folding plate.

LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois.

Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral.

Paris, J.B.M. Duprat, 1797-1798-1800.

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First edition.
Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois.

Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral.

Paris, J.B.M. Duprat, 1797-1798-1800.

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850 €

First edition.
Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

LACROIX, Silvestre-François.

Essais de géométrie sur les plans et les surfaces courbes (Ou Élémens de Géométrie Descriptive).

Paris, Fuchs & Bernard, 1795.

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600 €

First edition of Lacroix's very rare first book; it was extremely popular and saw a seventh edition in 1840. The book was written in part for various professions including architects, carpenter, artists, and geometers in order to improve their graphical procedures.
Bound after : 2. Élémens de géométrie précédés de réflexions sur l'ordre à suivre dans ces élémens, sur la manière de les écrire, et sur la méthode en mathématiques. Chez Duprat, An septième [1798], Paris. First edition.

GAULTIER DE BIAUZAT, Jean François.

Projet motivé d'articles additionnels à la loi, du 19 janvier 1791. Relative à l'organisation des Ponts & Chaussées.

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1791.

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120 €

First edition.
Proposed amendments to the law of January 19, 1791, which created the Corps of Ponts et Chaussées.

MAUDUIT, Antoine.

Leçons de géométrie théorique et pratique.

Paris, Didot et Bleuet, 1790.

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150 €

Mauduit's purpose stated in the preface was:
"to compose a work more especially dedicated to all those who are destined to the military or civil genius, and the architecture, which embraces all the arts which it directs and which it animates.".

BEDOS DE CELLES, François.

La Gnomonique pratique, ou lart de tracer avec la plus grande précision les cadrans solaires par les méthodes qui y sont propres, et le plus soigneusement choisies en faveur principalement de ceux qui sont peu ou point versés dans les Mathématiques.

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1790.

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500 €

Fourth edition.

CAGNOLI, Antoine.

Traité de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique, Contenant des Méthodes et des Formules nouvelles, avec des applications à la plupart des problêmes de l'Astronomie.

Paris, Didot fils ainé, 1786.

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200 €

First french edition.
Translation by Chompré of the work of Antoine Cagnoli, Italian astronomer and mathematician.
Prize-giving copy of the Ecole centrale de la Dorgogne awarded in 1799.

GUYOT, Edme-Gilles.

Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques, contenant ce qui a été imaginé de plus curieux dans ce genre, et ce qui se découvre journellement.

Paris, Gueffier, 1786.

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900 €

Third edition. Complete of it's 102 plates (we have 103 plates. pl. 48 of P2 in double)
34 plates of volume 2 are watercolored.

This book is one of the most complete and certainly the most beautifully illustrated works of popular science that developed in the late eighteenth century (Ozanam, Nollet, ...).
The first volume deals with mathematics, magnetism, and electricity. The second volume deals with geometry, optics, catoptrics, dioptrics, fire, air and water. The last volume is organized around the following themes: numbers, hand addresses and card tricks.

BEZOUT, Etienne.

Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine.

Paris, Ph-D Pierres, 1781-1784.

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500 €

Rare complete course of Bezout containing the four parts, the continuation of the fourth part and the treaty of navigation.
Part 1 and 2 are bound together in the first volume. Complete with the 38 engravings.

"Native of Nemours, professor of mathematics with the guards of the Navy and the School of artillery (Monge succeeded him in 1783), Étienne Bézout (or Bezout, as very often said and written nowadays) edited many textbooks educational. " (chronomath).

MANUSCRIT DE MATHÉMATIQUES.

Calcul géométral.
Analyse.

s.l., s.n., [1780].

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Eighteenth-century course of analysis, of a very readable writing.

Definitions, theorems, corollaries are numbered. Our volume starting at number 206, there was certainly written a first volume.
Our volume deals with the problems of the first degree with an unknown, the extraction of the roots, the substitution, with many problems and their solutions. Then are treated problems of two unknowns and first degree, the solidity of the sphere.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal.

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.

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1500 €

First and only old collective edition,
Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

PASCAL, Blaise.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal.

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.

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2500 €

The first and sole ancient collective edition, partially original.

Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

COUSIN, Jacques-Antoine-Joseph.

Leçons de Calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral.

Paris, Jombert, 1777.

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200 €

First edition.

AGNESI, Maria Gaetana.

Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral. Traduits de l'italien de Mademoiselle Agnesi, avec des additions.

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1775.

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2000 €

First edition in french.
Agnesi is according to DSB : "the first woman in the Western world who can accurately be called a mathematician".
Rare treatise on algebra and analysis which met a great success.
It was considered as the clearest, the more methodical and the most comprehensive work on the subject.

REID, Thomas.

Recherches sur l'entendement humain, d'après les principes du sens commun.

Amsterdam, Jean Meyer, 1768.

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400 €

Rare first french edition.
Thomas Reid is a Scottish philosopher.
In this book define his philosphy based on the realism of the five senses and thus opposes the system of ideas, born with the philosophy of Descartes.
Chapter on view gives rise to lengthy arguments on the lens. In Section IX, Reid defined a non-Euclidean geometry.

FONTAINE Des BERTINS, Alexis.

Mémoires donnés à l'académie royale des sciences non imprimés dans leur temps, par M.Fontaine, de cette académie.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1764.

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750 €

First edition.
Twelve memories, dealing essentially with infinitesimal geometry, integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy.

BIELFELD, Jacques-Frédéric (Baron de).

Institutions politiques.

La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1760.

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450 €

First edition.
Baron Bielfeld was an advisor to Frederick II of Prussia, his work consists mainly of reflections on national governance.
His work had a significant impact on both political science and statistics. He would be the first to introduce the word "statistics" to replace the term political arithmetic.

TAYLOR, Brook|| MURDOCH, Patrick.

Nouveaux principes de la perspective linéaire [...] avec un essai sur le mélange des couleurs par NEWTON.

Lyon, Bruyset, 1759.

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600 €

Second edition in french given by the Jesuit Antoine Rivoire of two treatises on perspective.

Taylor's book is considered in its day to be one of the best books on perspective.

SIMPSON, Thomas.

Elémens de géométrie traduits de l'anglois.

Paris, Vincent, 1755.

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200 €

Rare first edition in french of the ' Element of Plane geometry ' of Thomas Simpson.
Mathematician, Simpson. was the son of a weaver.
On 1743, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Academy at Woolwich, and on 1745 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
His ' Element of Plane geometry ' were a bestseller with 6 London editions between 1714 and 1821, five at Paris, and one at Amsterdam.

SAVERIEN, Alexandre.

Dictionnaire universel de Mathématique et de Physique, où l'on traite de l'origine, du progrès de ces deux Sciences des Arts qui en dépendent, des diverses révolutions qui leur sont arrivées jusqu'à notre temps; avec l'exposition de leurs Principes, l'analyse des sentimens des plus célèbres Auteurs sur chaque matière.

Paris, Rollin & Jombert, 1753.

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650 €

First edition.

CRAMER, Gabriel.

Introduction à l'analyse des lignes courbes algébriques.

Genève, Frères Cramer & Philibert, 1750.

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800 €

First edition.
The only publication by the Genevan mathematician Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752), it includes the method known today as Cramer's rule for the resolution of linear systems of equations, using what will later be called determinants.

MACLAURIN, Colin.

Traité des fluxions.

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749.

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3500 €

First french edition.
Mathematical defense of Newton's work against the Berkeley attacks, Maclaurin also proposes there a particular use of the Taylor theorem which is since called Taylor-Maclaurin formula and the first test of convergence of an infinite series.

LE BLOND, Guillaume.

L'Arithmétique et la géométrie de l'officier, contenant la théorie et la pratique de ces deux sciences, appliquées aux différens emplois de l'homme de guerre.

Paris, C.-A. Jombert, 1748.

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350 €

First edition.
Guillaume Le Blond (1704-1781), was professor of mathematics for the pages of the great stable of the king, then of the Children of France.
Book devoted to the use of mathematics in the army, the set is complete of the Essay on castrametation published as a follow-up to the Arithmetic and the geometry of the officer.

GINAC, Joseph Gaspard.

Recueil d'Arithmétique.

Marseille, s.n., 1747.

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750 €

Amusing arithmetic manuscript dotted with naive polychrome drawings.
The difficulty in learning mathematical operations in a non-decimal system (ounces, pounds ...) was to encourage Joseph Gaspard Ginac to distract himself with small drawings.

SIMPSON, Thomas.

Elements of Plane Geometry. To which are added, an Essay on the Maxima and Minima of Geometrical Quantities, and A brief Treatise of regular Solids; also, the Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids, together with the Construction of a large Variety of Geometrical Problems.

London, Printed for the Author; Samuel Farrer and John Turner, 1747.

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600 €

Rare first edition of this textbook on Geometry.
Thomas Simpson, son of a weaver, was a self-taught mathematician and an ardent defender of the theories of Isaac Newton.
On 1743, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Academy at Woolwich, and on 1745 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
His ' Element of Plane geometry ' were a bestseller with 6 London editions between 1714 and 1821, five at Paris, and one at Amsterdam.

LA CHAPELLE, Abbé Jean-Baptiste de.

Institutions de géométrie.

Paris, Debure l'aîné, 1746.

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400 €

First edition.

LA CHAPELLE, Abbé Jean-Baptiste de.

Discours sur l’étude des Mathématiques, où l’on essaye d’établir que les enfans sont capables de s’y appliquer.

Paris, Prault, 1743.

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350 €

Rare first edition of this booklet on how to teach mathematics to children. He propose to begin at the age of 6.

CLAIRAUT, Alexis.

Élémens de Géométrie.

Paris, Lambert & Durand, 1741.

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500 €

First edition.
Title page at Lambert & Durand, we find the title page more frequently at David fils. Bibliographers agree that this is the same edition.
The three last blank pages with old manuscript notes.

Clairaut's work enjoyed considerable success in France and Europe.

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Mathematics

LACROIX, Sylvestre-François.

Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique, et d'application de l'algèbre à la géométrie.

First edition Sylvestre-François Lacroix (1765-1843) is a French mathematician best known for his work on differential and integral calculus. He assists Monge in writing the descriptive geometry course given at the École normale de l'an III.

CARNOT, Lazare.

Réflexions sur la métaphysique du calcul infinitésimal.

Rare first edition, complete with the folding plate.

LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois.

Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral.

First edition. Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois.

Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral.

First edition. Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

LACROIX, Silvestre-François.

Essais de géométrie sur les plans et les surfaces courbes (Ou Élémens de Géométrie Descriptive).

GAULTIER DE BIAUZAT, Jean François.

Projet motivé d'articles additionnels à la loi, du 19 janvier 1791. Relative à l'organisation des Ponts & Chaussées.

First edition.Proposed amendments to the law of January 19, 1791, which created the Corps of Ponts et Chaussées.

MAUDUIT, Antoine.

Leçons de géométrie théorique et pratique.

Mauduit's purpose stated in the preface was: "to compose a work more especially dedicated to all those who are destined to the military or civil genius, and the architecture, which embraces all the arts which it directs and which it animates.".

BEDOS DE CELLES, François.

La Gnomonique pratique, ou lart de tracer avec la plus grande précision les cadrans solaires par les méthodes qui y sont propres, et le plus soigneusement choisies en faveur principalement de ceux qui sont peu ou point versés dans les Mathématiques.

Fourth edition.

CAGNOLI, Antoine.

Traité de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique, Contenant des Méthodes et des Formules nouvelles, avec des applications à la plupart des problêmes de l'Astronomie.

First french edition.Translation by Chompré of the work of Antoine Cagnoli, Italian astronomer and mathematician. Prize-giving copy of the Ecole centrale de la Dorgogne awarded in 1799.

GUYOT, Edme-Gilles.

Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques, contenant ce qui a été imaginé de plus curieux dans ce genre, et ce qui se découvre journellement.

BEZOUT, Etienne.

Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine.

MANUSCRIT DE MATHÉMATIQUES.

Calcul géométral. Analyse.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal.

COUSIN, Jacques-Antoine-Joseph.

Leçons de Calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral.

First edition.

AGNESI, Maria Gaetana.

Traités élémentaires de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral. Traduits de l'italien de Mademoiselle Agnesi, avec des additions.

REID, Thomas.

Recherches sur l'entendement humain, d'après les principes du sens commun.

FONTAINE Des BERTINS, Alexis.

Mémoires donnés à l'académie royale des sciences non imprimés dans leur temps, par M.Fontaine, de cette académie.

First edition. Twelve memories, dealing essentially with infinitesimal geometry, integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy.

BIELFELD, Jacques-Frédéric (Baron de).

Institutions politiques.

TAYLOR, Brook|| MURDOCH, Patrick.

Nouveaux principes de la perspective linéaire [...] avec un essai sur le mélange des couleurs par NEWTON.

Second edition in french given by the Jesuit Antoine Rivoire of two treatises on perspective.Taylor's book is considered in its day to be one of the best books on perspective.

SIMPSON, Thomas.

Elémens de géométrie traduits de l'anglois.

SAVERIEN, Alexandre.

First edition.

CRAMER, Gabriel.

Introduction à l'analyse des lignes courbes algébriques.

First edition.The only publication by the Genevan mathematician Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752), it includes the method known today as Cramer's rule for the resolution of linear systems of equations, using what will later be called determinants.

MACLAURIN, Colin.

Traité des fluxions.

First french edition.Mathematical defense of Newton's work against the Berkeley attacks, Maclaurin also proposes there a particular use of the Taylor theorem which is since called Taylor-Maclaurin formula and the first test of convergence of an infinite series.

LE BLOND, Guillaume.

L'Arithmétique et la géométrie de l'officier, contenant la théorie et la pratique de ces deux sciences, appliquées aux différens emplois de l'homme de guerre.

GINAC, Joseph Gaspard.

Recueil d'Arithmétique.

Amusing arithmetic manuscript dotted with naive polychrome drawings.The difficulty in learning mathematical operations in a non-decimal system (ounces, pounds ...) was to encourage Joseph Gaspard Ginac to distract himself with small drawings.

SIMPSON, Thomas.

Elements of Plane Geometry. To which are added, an Essay on the Maxima and Minima of Geometrical Quantities, and A brief Treatise of regular Solids; also, the Mensuration of both Superficies and Solids, together with the Construction of a large Variety of Geometrical Problems.

LA CHAPELLE, Abbé Jean-Baptiste de.

Institutions de géométrie.

First edition.

LA CHAPELLE, Abbé Jean-Baptiste de.

Discours sur l’étude des Mathématiques, où l’on essaye d’établir que les enfans sont capables de s’y appliquer.

Rare first edition of this booklet on how to teach mathematics to children. He propose to begin at the age of 6.

CLAIRAUT, Alexis.

Élémens de Géométrie.

First edition.Title page at Lambert & Durand, we find the title page more frequently at David fils. Bibliographers agree that this is the same edition. The three last blank pages with old manuscript notes.Clairaut's work enjoyed considerable success in France and Europe.

First edition

Sylvestre-François Lacroix (1765-1843) is a French mathematician best known for his work on differential and integral calculus. He assists Monge in writing the descriptive geometry course given at the École normale de l'an III.

First edition.
Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

First edition.
Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

First edition.
Proposed amendments to the law of January 19, 1791, which created the Corps of Ponts et Chaussées.

Mauduit's purpose stated in the preface was:
"to compose a work more especially dedicated to all those who are destined to the military or civil genius, and the architecture, which embraces all the arts which it directs and which it animates.".

First french edition.
Translation by Chompré of the work of Antoine Cagnoli, Italian astronomer and mathematician.
Prize-giving copy of the Ecole centrale de la Dorgogne awarded in 1799.

Calcul géométral.
Analyse.

First edition.
Twelve memories, dealing essentially with infinitesimal geometry, integral calculus, mechanics, and astronomy.

Second edition in french given by the Jesuit Antoine Rivoire of two treatises on perspective.

Taylor's book is considered in its day to be one of the best books on perspective.

First edition.
The only publication by the Genevan mathematician Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752), it includes the method known today as Cramer's rule for the resolution of linear systems of equations, using what will later be called determinants.

First french edition.
Mathematical defense of Newton's work against the Berkeley attacks, Maclaurin also proposes there a particular use of the Taylor theorem which is since called Taylor-Maclaurin formula and the first test of convergence of an infinite series.

Amusing arithmetic manuscript dotted with naive polychrome drawings.
The difficulty in learning mathematical operations in a non-decimal system (ounces, pounds ...) was to encourage Joseph Gaspard Ginac to distract himself with small drawings.

First edition.
Title page at Lambert & Durand, we find the title page more frequently at David fils. Bibliographers agree that this is the same edition.
The three last blank pages with old manuscript notes.

Clairaut's work enjoyed considerable success in France and Europe.