POISSON, Simeon Denis. Traité de mechanique, Paris: Bachelier, 1833. 2 volumes, 8°, half titles, 7 folding engraved plates (plates spotted, text lightly spotted), contemporary half calf (covers and spines detached, part of spine of vol. II lacking, worn). Second edition.

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POISSON, Simeon Denis. Traité de mechanique, Paris: Bachelier, 1833. 2 volumes, 8°, half titles, 7 folding engraved plates (plates spotted, text lightly spotted), contemporary half calf (covers and spines detached, part of spine of vol. II lacking, worn). Second edition.

LAGRANGE, Jospeh Louis. Méchanique analytique, Paris: V. Courcier, 1811. 2 volumes, 4° (lacking half titles, some light spotting), contemporary purple calf (spines faded, very rubbed and scuffed); ownership inscription of H. Browning (1873) on endpaper in vol. I; numerous annotations and underlining in pencil in vol. I.

With 16 other French works in 42 volumes, including Emile Mathieu's Cours de physique Mathématique bound with Dynamique analytique (2 works in one vol., Paris 1873-78) and Maximilien Marie's Histoire des sciences mathematiques et physiques (Paris, 1883-88, 12 vols.) (45)

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