BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de. Traité du calcul intégral..., Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1754-56. 2 parts in one volume, 4°, title in each part, 3 folding engraved plates (lightly spotted throughout, stronger to title and first few leaves), contemporary half calf (front cover detached, spine broken, worn). FIRST EDITION.

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BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de. Traité du calcul intégral..., Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1754-56. 2 parts in one volume, 4°, title in each part, 3 folding engraved plates (lightly spotted throughout, stronger to title and first few leaves), contemporary half calf (front cover detached, spine broken, worn). FIRST EDITION.

LACROIX, Silvestre Franois. Traité du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral, Paris: Courcier, 1810-14. 3 volumes, 4°, half titles, 10 folding engraved plates, 2 folding tables (some leaves and plates spotted), contemporary half calf (rebacked, front covers detached, worn); ownership inscription of John Barker on titles; occasional annotations in pencil. Second edition.

With 40 other French works in 44 volumes, all on mathematics, including Gaspard Monge's Application de l'Analyse à la Géométrie (Paris, 1850), Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette's Traité de Géométrie descriptive (2 vols., Paris, 1828), and Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot's Géométrie de Position (Paris, 1803, waterstained). (48)

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