2 VOLUMES BY BION ABOUT MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS

i. Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique. Paris: widow of Jean Boudot, Jacques Collombat, and Jean Boudot fils, 1709, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, [8],348,[4]pp., 28 engraved plates (one folding), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, contemporary calf, ('Petri Antonii Convers Laudonensis', bookplate; bought from The Antiquarian Scientist, Acton, MA, 1986), [T&W B155; The Geometry of War 32], folding plate reinforced at verso, light dampstaining, joints starting, binding slightly rubbed and repairedii. Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique. The Hague: Pieter Husson, Thomas Johnson, Pierre Gosse, et al., 1723, 4to, [8],389,[3]pp., engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 30 folding engraved plates (some slightly shorter), contemporary speckled calf, modern folding cloth box, (Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont PC (1675–1740), bookplate; bought from Jeffrey D.Mancevice, Worcester, MA, 1989), [T&W B157; STCN 260121797], binding slightly worn

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A survey of the full range of mathematical instruments then available from the French royal instrument maker (ingénieur du roi pour les instruments de mathématique). A German translation was published in 1712 (see next lot), and frequently reissued; an English translation by Edward Stone appeared in 1723 (see lot 66).