GAUSS, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855). Recherches Arithmétiques, translated by A.C.M. Poullet-Deslisle, Paris: Courcier, 1807, 4° (264 x 205mm.), FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH (lacking half title, light marginal dust-soiling, stamp to title and verso of last leaf of text), library cloth, sprinkled edges.

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GAUSS, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855). Recherches Arithmétiques, translated by A.C.M. Poullet-Deslisle, Paris: Courcier, 1807, 4° (264 x 205mm.), FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH (lacking half title, light marginal dust-soiling, stamp to title and verso of last leaf of text), library cloth, sprinkled edges.

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First French edition of Gauss's most important work Disquisitiones arithmeticae, 1801, containing his discovery of the law of quadratic reciprocity.

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