Recreations mathematiques, composees de plusieurs problemes plaisans & facetieux d’arithmetique, geometrie, astrologie, optique, perspective, mechanique, & autres rares & curieux secrets

Description

Old brown leather, raised bands, gilt spine decorations. 17.5x11x3 cm. de Ville. Lyon. 1680. 3-216 :5-100 pages. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Fair, lacks the title pages and half-titles, heavy wear to covers with some loss to spine, foxed and dampstiained, small scorched spot to top edge. . French text. Important early book on recreational mathematics with problems in applied mathematics. Defective copy lacking the preliminaries for both parts, but with complete texts. weight: 0.6 lb.