[Mathematics] OZANAM, Jacques Usage du compas de proportion, et de l'instrument universel. Pour résoudre promptement & très-exactement les problêmes de la géométrie-pratique [...] Avec un traité de la division des champs. Nouvelle édition [...]. Paris, C.-A. Jombert, 12mo: xx-[4]-pp.; pl. (sl. margin. water stains, some sl. brown. lvs, occ. foxing). Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-tooled spine with raised bands, red edges (lacks on corners and turn-ins repaired by an amateur). Successful treatise (1st ed. on the proportional compass, in use for over a century. Ill. (complete) with fold. plates. The French mathematician Ozanam (1640-was first directed by his family to priesthood, but with his father's death he was able to abandon this way and to pursue his passion for science and mathematics. Ref. CCFr. Prov. J.H. van de Laar (ms. mention). - De Brouckmans (id.). - Bookseller's stamp. Starting bid:
[Mathematics] OZANAM, Jacques Usage du compas de proportion, et de l'instrument universel. Pour résoudre promptement & très-exactement les problêmes de la géométrie-pratique [...] Avec un traité de la division des champs. Nouvelle édition [...]. Paris, C.-A. Jombert, 12mo: xx-[4]-pp.; pl. (sl. margin. water stains, some sl. brown. lvs, occ. foxing). Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-tooled spine with raised bands, red edges (lacks on corners and turn-ins repaired by an amateur). Successful treatise (1st ed. on the proportional compass, in use for over a century. Ill. (complete) with fold. plates. The French mathematician Ozanam (1640-was first directed by his family to priesthood, but with his father's death he was able to abandon this way and to pursue his passion for science and mathematics. Ref. CCFr. Prov. J.H. van de Laar (ms. mention). - De Brouckmans (id.). - Bookseller's stamp. Starting bid:
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