LEIBNITZ (Gottfried Wilhelm) and Jean Bernoulli: Commercium Philosophicum et Mathematicum, Lausanne and Geneva, sumpt. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet, 1745, 2 vols., 4to, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved portrait of Leibnitz, 23 folding engraved plates (some browning), contemporary half calf (joints cracked). [Babson 196; Ravier 427; Honeyman 1975]

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LEIBNITZ (Gottfried Wilhelm) and Jean Bernoulli: Commercium Philosophicum et Mathematicum, Lausanne and Geneva, sumpt. Marci-Michaelis Bousquet, 1745, 2 vols., 4to, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved portrait of Leibnitz, 23 folding engraved plates (some browning), contemporary half calf (joints cracked). [Babson 196; Ravier 427; Honeyman 1975]

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'Important for containing the evidence, as embodied in the correpondence between Leibnitz and Jean Bernoulli, on the question of the rival claims to priority in the invention of the calculus, between Newton and Leibnitz. It was the only serious claim published in Leibnitz's favour' (Babson). Copies with the portrait are rare.

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