Opuscules mathématiques, ou Mémoires sur différens sujets de géométrie, de méchanique, d’optique, d’astronomie, &c
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First edition
Paris: David vols. I–II ; Briasson III–VI ; C.-A. Jombert VII–VIII , 1761–1780. First edition, the only edition of his lifetime, of the eight quarto volumes in which Jean le Rond d’Alembert gathered the fifty-eight memoirs of the second half of his working life, with all thirty folding plates, entirely untrimmed, and from two published libraries of the history of science, Verne L. Roberts’s Bibliotheca
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