Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410
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Sale 2410 - Lot 164

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ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, Paris. Recueil de Plusieurs Traitez de Mathématique. 4 (of 6?) parts in one volume; lacks the frontispiece. Broadsheet, 488x351 mm, 18th-century 1/2 calf; occasional toning, scattered mostly minor foxing, marginal dampstaining on last several leaves of Traité de la Percussion. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1676 [i. e., 1677]
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first collected edition, reprinting Edmé Mariotte's 1673 Traité de la Percussion, "the first comprehensive treatment of the laws of elastic and inelastic impact and . . . one of the earliest examples of the application of algebraic analysis to physical problems"--Norman 1809.
Contents: Frénicle de Bessy, Bernard. Traité des Triangles en Nombres. [2], 42 pages Mariotte, Edmé. Traité du Nivellement. [2], 16 pages Mariotte, Edmé. Traité de la Percussion ou Choq des Corps. [2], 67, [1] pages Blondel, François. Résolution des Quatres Principaux Problèmes d'Architecture. 8 engraved plates. [4], 3-86 pages; lacks the title, 2 other preliminaries, and first leaf of text.