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LAGRANGE, JOSEPH-LOUIS. Mécanique Analytique . . . Nouvelle Édition. [4], x, 422, [2]; viii, 378 pages, including half-titles, and errata leaf in Volume 2. 2 volumes. 4to, 270x214 mm, contemporary paste-paper wrappers backed with paper; occasional heavy foxing or browning, opening leaves in both volumes dog-eared, errata leaf soiled, with clean tear, portion of blank upper margin torn off b1 in Volume 2; uncut. Paris: widow Courcier, 1815
Second edition of Lagrange's 1788 masterpiece, "which laid the foundations of modern mechanics, and which occupies a place in the history of the subject second only to that of Newton's Principia" (Wolf). Bibliotheca Mechanica, page 189; DSB VII, 569; Grolier/Horblit 61; Norman 1257; Riccardi II, 3; Wallis 106.161 (this edition); Wolf II, 69.
