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Hardcover. Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket. First Edition. 8 folding engraved plates. Xxviii, [2], 507, [1]; xxviii, [2], 500 pages, including half-titles and errata leaves. 2 volumes. 8vo, 215x140 mm, contemporary 1/4 sheep gilt with leather lettering pieces, Volume 2 spine chipped at top; a few leaves slightly browned. Hinging, binding and text block all quite solid. Stamp of the Collegio Universitario Antonianum, Padua, on titles. Paris: Courcier, 1811. First edition of a standard textbook of the period, with sections on statics, dynamics, hydrostatics, and hydrodynamics. BEA, pages 921-22; Bibliotheca Mechanica, pages 259; DSB XV, 484. From the GUTZWILLER ASTRONOMY &SCIENCE BOOKS.