Oct 26, 2023 - Sale 2650

Sale 2650 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SCIENTISTS.) ALEMBERT,JEAN LE ROND DE;ALEXANDRE-THÉOPHILE VANDERMONDE. Letter Signed by both, "D'Alembert" and "Vandermonde," to the Publications Committee of the Academy of Sciences, in French, submiting a review of Traité Elémentaire de Méchanique by mathematician Charles Bossut, concluding that, "It seemed to us that this treaty was made with great order; that there was variety and choice in the problems and elegance in their solutions; and We believe that it deserves to be public." Text in the hand of Vandermonde. 7 1/2 pages, small 4to, written on two folded sheets; moderate bleedthrough throughout. [Paris], 30 August 1775