DIOPHANTUS of Alexandria (fl. 250 A.D.). Arithmeticorum libri sex, edited by C.G. Bachet and Pierre de Fermat, Toulouse: excudebat Bernardus Bosc, 1670, 2 parts in one volume, 2° (title perforated and with stamp on verso, accession stamp at head of dedication, title and first leaf of dedication torn at lower margin, X4v and Y1r soiled at upper margin, 2S3 folded and miscut, browned throughout), old calf (extremities worn, upper cover detached) [Brunet II, 732; Honeyman 893; Smith p. 348]

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DIOPHANTUS of Alexandria (fl. 250 A.D.). Arithmeticorum libri sex, edited by C.G. Bachet and Pierre de Fermat, Toulouse: excudebat Bernardus Bosc, 1670, 2 parts in one volume, 2° (title perforated and with stamp on verso, accession stamp at head of dedication, title and first leaf of dedication torn at lower margin, X4v and Y1r soiled at upper margin, 2S3 folded and miscut, browned throughout), old calf (extremities worn, upper cover detached) [Brunet II, 732; Honeyman 893; Smith p. 348]

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The first edition containing Fermat's important discoveries on the theory of numbers which became the foundation of the differential calculus.

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