Cours de mathématiques, à l'usage des gardes du Pavillon et de la marine

First edition illustrated with 29 plates and 12 trigonometric tables. The first 3 volumes are found in second edition dated 1793.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes at head and foot. Brown morocco title labels, tan morocco volume labels. One lack at foot of volume IV. Scuffs and scratches on boards. Volume V: title page creased with a lack to inner margin not touching text. Paper generally fresh with some occasional pale foxing to titles and endpapers. One corner bumped, others rubbed. The folding plates, not always well folded, protrude. Good copy.
Detail of the volumes which concern different aspects and fields of mathematics:
I: "Éléments d'Arithmétique". II: "Contenant les Élemens de Géometrie, la Trigonométrie rectiligne, et la Trigonométrie sphérique". III: "Contenant l'Algèbre & l'application de cette science à l'Arithmétique & la Géométrie". IV: "Contenant les Principes généraux de la Méchanique, précédes des Principes de Calcul qui servent d'introduction aux Sciences Physico-Mathématiques". V: "Suite du Cours de Mathématiques . contenant le Traité de Navigation".
The mathematician Etienne Bezout remained famous, not only for his research in mathematics but especially for the eminent role he played in his time in the development of mathematics pedagogy. He was professor of mathematics to the Marine Guards and the Artillery School.