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EULER, LEONHARD. Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes. 5 folding engraved plates. [4], 322, [1] pages, including initial blank and final leaf of binder's instructions. 4to, 238x193 mm, early 19th-century 1/4 sheep gilt, spine faded and rubbed; occasional toning of text, plates clean. 19th-century Jesuit stamps (École Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, and Maison Saint-Louis, Jersey) on initial blank and title. Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1744
first edition of the work in which Euler first formulated the principal problems of the calculus of variations and created general methods for their solution. Bibliotheca Mechanica 104; Eneström 65; Grolier/Horblit 28; Norman 731.
