Essai sur la théorie des nombres

by Adrien Marie Legendre

$5,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Duprat, an VI 1798 . 4to. xxiv, 472, 56 pp., including half-title plus 12 tables. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, appears to have been rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. An excellent copy with a tiny ownership signature on the paste-down. Item #19321 First edition of one of the fundamental works in the history of number theory, containing

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