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RABUEL, Claude. Commentaires sur la Geometrie de M. Descartes, Lyon: Marcellin Duplain, 1730, 4°, 23 folding engraved plates by Daudet (very occasional browning), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with raised bands and morocco label (scuff marks to covers, small hole in upper joint, gilt shell-mark on back cover) Provenance: JCL. With 5 other works on geometry, including a wormed copy of Descartes' Geometria (Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1659, 2 vols., second edition), and treatises by Antonio Cagnoli, Alexis Claude Clairaut, Georg Simon Kleugel and Gaspard Monge. (8)