Lot 1216: LE CLERC, SEBASTIEN (1637-1714).

Pratique de la géometrie, sur le papier et sur le terrain. Avec un nouvel ordre & une methode particulière. Paris: Thomas Jolly (imprimerie de Jean Cusson, 1668) 1669

Condition Note: 12mo (147 x 85mm.), [6], 4, [3 (2 blank)], 6-41 [1 (blank)], 139, [9]pp., illustration : engraved frontispiece and 82 full-page engravings in text, first leaf of dedication to the marquis de Seignelay partly engraved, binding : contemporary mottled calf, engraving on L6 printed upside-down

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PROVENANCE

William Herbert, presentation inscription by Herbert on flyleaf, dated 1671
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Vagnetti EIIIb60
CATALOGUE NOTE

first edition of this influential work.