D'Alembert (Jean le Rond): Opuscules Mathématiques, ou Mémoires sur différens sujets de Géometries, de Méchanique, d'Optique, d'Astronomie &c., Paris, chez David, 1761, 8 vols., first collected edition, half-titles to vols. IV-VIII, 30 folding engraved plates (title to vol I soiled at upper margin, some light browning and spotting), original calf-backed pink boards, blue calf spine labels (spines worn at head and with library labels at foot). [Brunet II, 471; Sotheran I, 67; Honeyman 808] | Christie's

Lot 173

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D'Alembert (Jean le Rond): Opuscules Mathématiques, ou Mémoires sur différens sujets de Géometries, de Méchanique, d'Optique, d'Astronomie &c., Paris, chez David, 1761, 8 vols., first collected edition, half-titles to vols. IV-VIII, 30 folding engraved plates (title to vol I soiled at upper margin, some light browning and spotting), original calf-backed pink boards, blue calf spine labels (spines worn at head and with library labels at foot). [Brunet II, 471; Sotheran I, 67; Honeyman 808]

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D'Alembert (Jean le Rond): Opuscules Mathématiques, ou Mémoires sur différens sujets de Géometries, de Méchanique, d'Optique, d'Astronomie &c., Paris, chez David, 1761, 8 vols., first collected edition, half-titles to vols. IV-VIII, 30 folding engraved plates (title to vol I soiled at upper margin, some light browning and spotting), original calf-backed pink boards, blue calf spine labels (spines worn at head and with library labels at foot). [Brunet II, 471; Sotheran I, 67; Honeyman 808]

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Contains 58 of the author's chief scientifis memoirs contributed to the Paris and Berlin Academies after 1760.

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