Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 406
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Ozanam, Jacques (1640-1718)
Dictionnaire Mathématique ou Idée Générale des Mathématiques.

Amsterdam: Huguetan, 1691.

Large quarto, engraved allegorical title facing typographical title page (printed in red and black), illustrated with text diagrams and twenty-four engravings extraneous to collation, musical notation in text; bound in handsome full German calf parchment, tooled in blind, 9 1/4 x 7 in.

This valuable French dictionary of mathematical and scientific terms was published in both Paris and Amsterdam in 1691. It covers astronomy, navigation, optics, painting, music, and many other topics, with alphabetical subject index at the end.

Houzeau & Lancaster 9334.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.