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GUYOT, Edme-Gilles. Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques, contenant ce qui a été imaginé de plus curieux dans ce genre, et ce qui se découvre journellement. 1786.
GUYOT, Edme-Gilles.
Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques, contenant ce qui a été imaginé de plus curieux dans ce genre, et ce qui se découvre journellement.
Paris, Gueffier, 1786.
Three 8vo (194x123 mm), (2)-xv-(1)-375 pages and 32 plates / vii-(1 bl.)-410 pages and 49 plates / (4)-408-(3) pages and 22 plates. 103 plates in total. binding : Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces (chipped), red edges. Corners and two caps chipped. Spine rubbed. Minor staining on plate 13 of volume 1.
Third edition. Complete of it's 102 plates (we have 103 plates. pl. 48 of P2 in double)
34 plates of volume 2 are watercolored.
This book is one of the most complete and certainly the most beautifully illustrated works of popular science that developed in the late eighteenth century (Ozanam, Nollet, ...).
The first volume deals with mathematics, magnetism, and electricity. The second volume deals with geometry, optics, catoptrics, dioptrics, fire, air and water. The last volume is organized around the following themes: numbers, hand addresses and card tricks.
provenance: Ex libris Ancian (ownership inscription on title) on volume 1.
Price : 900 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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