D'ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond (editor) (1717-1783). Encyclopédie Méthodique: Mathématiques, Paris: chez Panckoucke & Liège: chez Plomteux, 1784-89, 3 volumes, 4°, 16 engraved plates (library markings, including title perforation, some light spotting, occasional browning), modern brown buckram. (3)

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D'ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond (editor) (1717-1783). Encyclopédie Méthodique: Mathématiques, Paris: chez Panckoucke & Liège: chez Plomteux, 1784-89, 3 volumes, 4°, 16 engraved plates (library markings, including title perforation, some light spotting, occasional browning), modern brown buckram. (3)

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This copy is without the Vocabulaire universel mentioned in the half title as containing portraits of Diderot and D'Alembert. Other contributors, besides D'Alembert himself, include Bossut, de La Lande, Condorcet, and Jean Bernoulli.

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