Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 159

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GUYOT, EDMÉ-GILLES. Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques . . . Nouvelle Édition. 102 uncolored engraved plates. Half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, early 19th-century 1/4 sheep gilt, spines faded and rubbed, Volume 1 rear and Volume 2 front cover detached; contents lightly toned with scattered foxing, marginally affecting some plates, some browning of text leaves toward beginning of Volume 3. 19th-century stamps of Louis Biart, Antwerp. Paris: à la Librairie, Rue S. André-des-Arcs, no. 46, An VII [1799-1800]

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Popular work on recreational mathematics and science originally published in 1769-70, covering experiments on magnetism and electricity in the first volume; optics in the second; and calculating machines, slight of hand, chess, cryptography, pyrotechnics, etc., in the third. Wheeler Gift 426 (original edition).