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DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). Geometria... Leiden: J. Maire, 1649.
4o (192 x 145 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, diagrams in text (margins trimmed close). Late 19th-century half morocco (light wear to joints). Provenance: early ink mariginalia.
FIRST LATIN EDITION, originally published in French in 1637 in the Discours de la Méthode. This edition contains important additions by Beaune relative to the inverse methods of tangents and Schooten's discovery of the rectification of algebraic curves. Brunet II:610.
4o (192 x 145 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, diagrams in text (margins trimmed close). Late 19th-century half morocco (light wear to joints). Provenance: early ink mariginalia.
FIRST LATIN EDITION, originally published in French in 1637 in the Discours de la Méthode. This edition contains important additions by Beaune relative to the inverse methods of tangents and Schooten's discovery of the rectification of algebraic curves. Brunet II:610.