CHAULNES, 2 VOLUMES ON INSTRUMENTS AND DIVIDING ENGINES

i. Nouvelle méthode pour diviser les instruments de mathématique et d'astronomie. [Paris]: (L. F. Delatours), 1768, FIRST EDITION, folio, uncut, 15 engraved plates, contemporary marbled boards, large white spine label, modern folding cloth box, (bought from Pickering & Chatto, London, 1986), [T&W C75], plates crudely stitched, binding slightly wornii. Neue Art, mathematische und astronomische Instrumente abzutheilen. Berlin: Joachim Pauli, 1788, FIRST GERMAN EDITION, 4to, 10 folding engraved plates (all edge-mounted, one slightly shorter), later boards, modern folding cloth box, ("Comes de Solms", armorial bookplate; Swann Galleries, 27 September 1979, lot 201, Erwin Tomash), [T&W C76; VD18 15340570], boards somewhat soiled and browned

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