Usage du compas de proportion, et de l'instrument universel. Pour résoudre promptement & très-exactement les problêmes de la géométrie-pratique [...] Avec un traité de la division des champs. Nouvelle édition [...].

12mo: xx-[4]-240 pp., 12 pls (sl. margin. waterstains, some sl. brown. lvs, occ. foxing).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-tooled spine on raised bands, red edges (lacks on corners and turn-ins repaired by an amateur).

New edition (1st ed.: 1688) of this successful treatise on the proportional compass, in use for over a century. Ill. complete with 12 fold. 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. CCFr. Prov. J.H. van de Laar (ms. mention). - De Brouckmans (id.). - Bookseller's stamp.