Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343
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Sale 2343 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DESCHALES, CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS MILLIET, S.J. Cursus seu Mundus Mathematicus . . . editio altera ex manuscriptis authoris aucta et emendata. Woodcut text diagrams throughout. [36], 691, [1]; [28], 692; [24], 763, [1]; [20], 755 pages. 4 volumes. Folio, 352x220 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, worn, with portions missing from the spines of Volumes 1, 2, and 4; mostly moderate foxing, Volume 1 opening leaves dampstained, half-title and rear free endpaper loose, front free endpaper lacking. Lyon: Anisson, Posuel & Rigaud, 1690
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Revised and enlarged second edition of an encyclopedic textbook originally published in 1674, covering mathematics and its history, geometry, trigonometry, algebra, mechanics, statics and hydrostatics, geography, magnetism, civil architecture, stonecutting, military engineering, hydraulics, navigation, optics, perspective, music, pyrotechnics, gnonomics, astronomy, and chronology. Houzeau & Lancaster 9329.