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Lot 250
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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700
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$315
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Lot Description
[MANUSCRIPTS—MATHEMATICS]. “Elemens de Geometrie a l’usage des enfans de France.” [France, 18th century].
173 pages, 4to (253 x 184mm). In French. Written in a cursive hand in dark brown and blackish ink by a Dumoutier? Deprice. Illustrated with 23 folding plates containing detailed diagrams in black ink and wash. (Some minor marginal dampstaining, a few leaves with margins a little frayed.) Bound in contemporary French calf (modern rebacking, corners and edges worn). Provenance: Dumoutier ?Deprice (inscription on title).
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil