Labbe Hauchecorn (1 results)
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Published by The Author, Paris 1784
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. First Edition. RARE, WorldCat shows only eight institutional holdings. Portrait of René Descartes engraved on copper frontispiece Vol. I. Very Good, quarter calf over paper covered boards, expertly rebacked early 19th c., with gilt lettering and rules,… decorative end papers. Boards bumped and rubbed at edges. Vol. II with six fold-out plates engraved on copper at the end of the volume, representing geometric figures, diagrams (of astronomy), a terrestrial globe, instruments of physics and the 12 astrological signs. Introduction and author's notes in French, text in Latin and in French. Internally quite clean and lovely, with no toning. .
