Usage de l'instrument universel. Pour resoudre promtement & tres-exactement tous les problemes de la geometrie pratique sans aucun calcul.

8vo: 116 pp.; 5 fold. pl. (light brown.).

Old sheep (sl. rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (joints, head and tail def.), sp. edges.

First edition of this successful treatise on the proportional compass, in use for over a century. Ill. (complete) with 5 fold. plates, i.e. 5 parts normally forming 2 plates. The French mathematician Ozanam (1640-1717) was first directed by his family to priesthood, but with his father's death he was able to abandon this way and to pursue his passion for science and mathematics.
Ref. Poggendorff II:341. - BnF.
Prov. Vanderstraten, 1751 (ms. entry on title).