MONTUCLA, Jean Etienne. Histoire des Mathématiques ... nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, Paris: Henri Agasse, An VII-X [1799-1802], 4 volumes, 4°, half title, 2 engraved portraits, 45 folding engraved plates (a few paper flaws with loss of one or 2 letters, a few leaves detached, upper margin of vol. IV lightly dampstained, some plates lightly soiled, light spotting), non-uniformly bound in contemporary calf (worn, lacking 4 covers, 2 vols. rebacked). With 13 other works in 16 volumes, including a presentation copy of N. Hanbury's Supplementum analyticum ad aequationes Cartesianas (Cambridge, 1691) and a presentation copy from Maseres to the Inner Temple Library of B. Booth's Tables of simple Interest (London, 1818). (20)

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MONTUCLA, Jean Etienne. Histoire des Mathématiques ... nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, Paris: Henri Agasse, An VII-X [1799-1802], 4 volumes, 4°, half title, 2 engraved portraits, 45 folding engraved plates (a few paper flaws with loss of one or 2 letters, a few leaves detached, upper margin of vol. IV lightly dampstained, some plates lightly soiled, light spotting), non-uniformly bound in contemporary calf (worn, lacking 4 covers, 2 vols. rebacked). With 13 other works in 16 volumes, including a presentation copy of N. Hanbury's Supplementum analyticum ad aequationes Cartesianas (Cambridge, 1691) and a presentation copy from Maseres to the Inner Temple Library of B. Booth's Tables of simple Interest (London, 1818). (20)
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F. Maseres, inscription to blank, dated 3 December 1799; bookplate and stamps of the Inner Temple Library.

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