Shelfmark
Gb.7.13
Author
Title
L'usage du compas de proportion, expliqué et demontré d'une maniere courte & facile, & augmenté d'un traité de la division des champs. Par M. Ozanam professeur en mathematique..
Edition
Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée..
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Jean Jombert, prés [sic] des Augustins, à l'Image Nôtre-Dame., M D C C. [1700]
Physical description
139, [5] p., [2] leaves of plates] : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo.)
Note
Imprimatur given on page 139.
Note
Colophon on page 139: A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de G. Paulus-du-Mesnil., 1700.
Note
Woodcut and metalcut images throughout. Two engraved plates showing illustrations of compasses, to be bound in before page 7. Signed Chapotot.
Note
Woodcut title-page vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces, signed L.S, P.L.S and V.L.S., i.e. Pierre and Vincent Le Sueur.
Note
Five pages of advertisements at end.
Provenance
Book label of Nicholas Mann on front endpaper, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Binding
Contemporary parchment over stiff boards; parchment has visible but not legible writing in [?]16th century hand concealed by brown sprinkling except on board edges and turn-ins; dark red morocco spine label with gold tooled dash roll and title; four raised bands; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Di.8.21.
Subject
Compasses (Mathematical instruments) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mathematics Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Jombert, Jean, active 1700 - ? bookseller.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Le Sueur, Vincent, 1668 - 1743 woodcutter.
Added entry--name
Le Sueur, Pierre, 1669 - 1750 woodcutter.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris
Language code
fre
Identifier
B48229