M. Ozanam - L'usage du Compas de proportion, expliqué et démontré d'une manière courte & facile - 1748
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M. Ozanam's L'usage du Compas de proportion, expliqué et démontré d'une manière courte & facile is a leather-bound revised edition from 1748 in French, 240 pages, 17 × 10 cm, with 12 copperplate folding plates and plates out of text.
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Author: Jacques Ozanam (M. Ozanam of the Royal Academy of Sciences).
Full title: Usage of the compass of proportion, and of the universal instrument, to promptly and very accurately solve the problems of practical geometry, both on paper and in the field, without any calculation.
Edition: Nouvelle édition, enriched with copper-engraved figures.
Year of publication: 1748 (MDCCXLVIII).
Place and Publisher: Paris, Quai des Augustins, near Charles-Antoine Jombert.
Format: In-12° (17x10 cm).
Pagination / Collation: xx, 240 p., XII folded plates.
Illustrations: 12 plates engraved copper plates, folded at end of volume.
Binding: Contemporary 18th-century leather binding. Five raised spine bands with compartments originally decorated in gold; retains the original leather label with the title impressed in gold letters.
Endpapers: Marbled endpapers present at both the beginning and end of the volume (one leaf per part).
Gilding: Red-colored edges of the boards.
State of conservation: A genuine and structurally solid copy, which nevertheless shows widespread signs of time. There are abrasions and superficial crackling on the boards (typical of aging leather), wear and small detachments concentrated at the headcaps and hinges, with corners worn and the underlying cardboard partially visible.
Author: Jacques Ozanam (M. Ozanam of the Royal Academy of Sciences).
Full title: Usage of the compass of proportion, and of the universal instrument, to promptly and very accurately solve the problems of practical geometry, both on paper and in the field, without any calculation.
Edition: Nouvelle édition, enriched with copper-engraved figures.
Year of publication: 1748 (MDCCXLVIII).
Place and Publisher: Paris, Quai des Augustins, near Charles-Antoine Jombert.
Format: In-12° (17x10 cm).
Pagination / Collation: xx, 240 p., XII folded plates.
Illustrations: 12 plates engraved copper plates, folded at end of volume.
Binding: Contemporary 18th-century leather binding. Five raised spine bands with compartments originally decorated in gold; retains the original leather label with the title impressed in gold letters.
Endpapers: Marbled endpapers present at both the beginning and end of the volume (one leaf per part).
Gilding: Red-colored edges of the boards.
State of conservation: A genuine and structurally solid copy, which nevertheless shows widespread signs of time. There are abrasions and superficial crackling on the boards (typical of aging leather), wear and small detachments concentrated at the headcaps and hinges, with corners worn and the underlying cardboard partially visible.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Science
Book title
L'usage du Compas de proportion, expliqué et démontré d'une manière courte & facile
Author/ Illustrator
M. Ozanam
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1748
Height
17 cm
Edition
Revised edition
Width
10 cm
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Quai des Augustins, presso Charles-Antoine Jombert
Binding/ Material
Leather
Extras
Fold out maps or plates, Tipped in plates
Number of pages
240
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