GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE [(Nicolas)]: Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathématique et de Méchanique, ou Decription du Cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, Lyon, chez David Forey, 1719, 4to, first edition, title printed in red and black, 85 engraved plates (nos. 39, 48 and 76 not issued), errata leaf at end, contemporary calf (spine repaired with adhesive tape). [Brunet VI, 8173; Wolf 539; Spaulding and Karpinski 240; Honeyman 1560]

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GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE [(Nicolas)]: Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathématique et de Méchanique, ou Decription du Cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière, Lyon, chez David Forey, 1719, 4to, first edition, title printed in red and black, 85 engraved plates (nos. 39, 48 and 76 not issued), errata leaf at end, contemporary calf (spine repaired with adhesive tape). [Brunet VI, 8173; Wolf 539; Spaulding and Karpinski 240; Honeyman 1560]

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A description of the models etc. collected by the author's grandfather, a French soldier of fortune who was born at Lyon in 1593 and died in 1686.

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