Auguste MUTEL
Cours d'arithmétique à l'usage des aspirans à l'Ecole polytechnique
[Course in Arithmetic for Candidates to the École Polytechnique]
Périsse frères • Bachelier|Lyon • Paris 1832|13 x 21.2 cm|Broché
Third edition.
Our copy is preserved in its original state, issued in temporary blue paper wrappers, with some losses to the corners and a mounted title label on the spine.
Some light foxing.
Pierre-Auguste Mutel (1795–1847) entered the École Polytechnique in 1813, graduating 34th in the class of 1815, and went on to serve in the artillery corps.
Manuscript ex-libris of Becquerel, dated 24 October 1833; it is difficult to determine which member of this illustrious family should be associated with this provenance.
€900