MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, 3 VOL. BY SCOTT, BION AND DIDEROT, AND SOME LOOSE PLATES

i. Bion, Nicholas (1652-1733). Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique... seconde edition. Paris: widow of Jean Boudot, [&c.], 1716, 8vo, 30 engraved plates, one folding, contemporary calf, modern folding cloth box, (bought from Michael Phelps, London, 1988, Catalogue 32, item 50), [T&W B156], lacking a preliminary leaf, a few plates slightly shaved, binding worn, new endpapersii. Scott, Benjamin (1688-1751). The description and use of an universal and perpetual mathematical instrument. London: H. Whitridge, J. Wilcox and the author, 1733, 8vo, title printed in red and black, one folding engraved plate, errata leaf at end, contemporary panelled calf, (Thomas Betts, 1801, signature; bought from Richard Arkway, New York, 1990), [T&W S70; ESTC T84170], plate torn and repaired, title slightly soiled, binding rather worn, rebacked, new endleavesiii. Diderot, Denis and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. [Encyclopédie. second half 18th century], 9 engraved plates (no.1-3; no.1-6) for the section "Instrumens de mathématiques" extracted from the Encyclopédie, and one plate "Algebre et arithmetique" (no.1-2) with Napier's bones and Pascal's machine, all loose, [T&W D48, D49]iv. Diderot and d'Alembert. Recueil de planches sur les sciences... et les art méchaniques. New York: Readex Microprint Corp., 1969, folio, "compact edition" (reduced facsimile), illustrations, original leather-backed cloth, [not in T&W]

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