Euler, Leonhard

Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum ... Tomus Primus [-Secundus]. Lausanne: Marcus-Michael Bousquet and associates, 1748



2 volumes in one, 4to (9 ¼ x 7 ¾ in.; 235 x 196 mm). Titles printed in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, engraved vignettes on titles, 40 folding engraved plates, woodcut head-pieces and initials, one folding table; some mostly marginal foxing throughout, some mathematical marginalia by Grosse in the first book. Contemporary mottled three-quarter calf over speckled boards; rebacked with original spine laid down, covers scuffed.

G. Grosse (signature, red wax seal and purchase note dated "10 March [17]69" on second free endpaper, and signature on second title dated "10 February 1771") — Dr. Arnold Baur, Lübeck (stamp on front free endpaper)

Enestroem 101 & 102; Norman 732; PMM 196; see DSB IV, 476-477

First edition.

"Discoveries in the field of analysis made in the middle of the eighteenth century (many of them his own) were systematically summarized by Euler in the trilogy Introductio in analysin Infinitorum (1748) ...[and his works on differential and integral calculus]. The books are still of interest, especially the first volume of the Introductio. Many of the problems considered there, however, are now so far developed that knowledge of them is limited to a few specialists, who can trace in the book the development of many fruitful methods of analysis" (DSB).

"In his 'Introduction to Mathematical Analysis' Euler did for modern analysis what Euclid had done for ancient geometry. It contains an exposition of algebra, trigonometry, and analytical geometry, both plane and solid, a definition of logarithms as exponents, and important contributions to the theory of equations" (PMM).