Antoine de JUSSIEU

Illustrated edition with 8 plates, most folding, and some text figures.
Contemporary marbled brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title-label and black wax volume label. Small lack to head. One corner slightly bumped. Light rubbing. Good copy.
Notable articles in each of the mentioned sections include: On the construction of compasses, by M. de La HIre. Resolution of a problem proposed by M. de Lagny, by M. le Chevalier Renau, by M. Sauveur. Experiments made in a cylindroidal vortex, by M. Saulmon. Remarks on a singular case of the general problem of tangents, by M. Saurin. Method for firing bombs successfully, by M. de Ressons. Report on different den

Duodecimo edition illustrated with a frontispiece, 4 folding plates in volume I and 14 folding plates in volume II.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title labels, and black wax volume labels. Slight lacks at head of volume I. 3 corners slightly bumped. Good copies.
Notable articles to be retained in each of the mentioned sections include: On the origin and use of thunderstone by M. de Jussieu; General method for transforming irrational numbers into series of the simplest rational fractions by M. de Lagny; Elementary proposition on triangles; Calculation of finite differences by M. Nicole; On the origin of stones called s

New edition, considered a piracy of the regular edition published in Paris by the Imprimerie Royale. It is illustrated with 17 folding plates.
Contemporary full marbled glazed calf binding. Decorated raised bands spine, roulettes at tail and head. Red morocco title label, and volume label in brown wax. A cut at head. Scattered foxing. Good copy.
Of particular note in each of the mentioned sections are the following remarkable articles
Anatomy: On the force that pushes blood in the foetus; Botany: On Ginseng; Astronomy: On the theory of eclipses, on the movement of Jupiter. As for the memoirs, we note with the greatest interest: Observation on the manner in which a girl without