[Rarebooks] FS: Le Clerc's geometry for surveyors and artists. Paris: 1744

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(MATHEMATICS) Le Clerc, Sebastien. PRATIQUE DE LA GEOMETRIE, SUR LE PAPIER ET SUR LE TERREIN; Ou par une Methode Nouvelle & Singuliere l'On Peut avec Facilite & en Peu de Tems Se Perfectionner en Cette Science. Paris: A Jombert. 1744. 12mo. (8),108,(4)pp. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece, engraved text vignette on the dedication leaf, and 80 copper engraved plates (40 with images on both recto and verso). Later full calf, brown calf spine label, hinges slightly rubbed. First 4 leaves with an old water stain at lower inner margin and fore-margin. Occasional light soiling. Old ownership inscription on final blank.	$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work is completely different from his TRAITE DE GEOMETRIE THEORIQUE ET PRATIQUE, A L'USUAGE DES ARTISTES, also published in 1744.


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