Comprehensive masterpiece on conic sections, famous in its day but forgotten for 150 years
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LA HIRE, Philippe de.
Sectiones conicae in novem libros distributae, ...
Paris, Etienne Michallet, 1685. Large folio (38 x 26 cm). With a charming woodcut headpiece at the beginning of the main text, hundreds of woodcut diagrams in the text. 19th-century boards (ca. 1820?). [8], 249, [1] pp. Full description
€ 5,500
Paris, Etienne Michallet, 1685. Large folio (38 x 26 cm). With a charming woodcut headpiece at the beginning of the main text, hundreds of woodcut diagrams in the text. 19th-century boards (ca. 1820?). [8], 249, [1] pp. Full description