M. Ozanam - L'usage du Compas de proportion

Author: Jacques Ozanam (M. Ozanam of the Royal Academy of Sciences). Full title: Usage of the compass of proportion, and of the universal instrument, to promptly and very accurately solve the problems of practical geometry, both on paper and in the field, without any calculation. Edition: Nouvelle édition, enriched with copper-engraved figures. Year of publication: 1748 (MDCCXLVIII). Place and Publisher: Paris, Quai des Augustins, near Charles-Antoine Jombert. Format: In-12° (17x10 cm). Pagination / Collation: xx, 240 p., XII folded plates. Illustrations: 12 plates engraved copper plates, folded at end of volume. Binding: Contemporary 18th-century leather binding. Five raised spine bands with compartments originally decorated in gold; retains the original leather label with the title impressed in gold letters. Endpapers: Marbled endpapers present at both the beginning and end of the volume (one leaf per part). Gilding: Red-colored edges of the boards. State of conservation: A genuine and structurally solid copy, which nevertheless shows widespread signs of time. There are abrasions and superficial crackling on the boards (typical of aging leather), wear and small detachments concentrated at the headcaps and hinges, with corners worn and the underlying cardboard partially visible.

Estimate:£167.51

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