M. Ozanam - L'usage du Compas de proportion, expliqué et démontré d'une manière courte & facile - 1748
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M. Ozanam’s French-language science book, *L'usage du Compas de proportion, expliqué et démontré d'une manière courte & facile*, is a revised 1748 edition bound in leather, with 240 pages and folding plates.
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Author: Jacques Ozanam (M. Ozanam of the Académie Royale des Sciences).
Full title: Use of the Proportional Compass and the Universal Instrument to Solve Problems in Practical Geometry Promptly and Very Precisely, Both on Paper and in the Field, Without Any Calculation.
Edition: New edition, enriched with intaglio illustrations.
Year of publication: 1748 (MDCCXLVIII).
Place and Publisher: Paris, Quai des Augustins, at Charles-Antoine Jombert’s.
Format: In-12° (17 x 10 cm).
Pagination / Collation formula: xx, 240 pp., XII leaves of folded plates.
Illustrations: 12 copper-engraved plates, outside the text and folded, at the end of the volume.
Binding: Contemporary 18th-century leather binding. Spine with five raised bands and compartments originally decorated in gilt; retains the original leather label with the title stamped in gilt lettering.
Contemporary marbled-paper endpapers present at both the beginning and end of the volume (one leaf at each end).
Edges of the boards colored red.
Condition: A genuine and structurally sound copy, although it shows widespread signs of age. There are abrasions and superficial scuffing to the boards (typical of aged leather), wear and small losses concentrated at the head and tail of the spine and along the joints, with bumped corners and the structural board partially exposed.
Author: Jacques Ozanam (M. Ozanam of the Académie Royale des Sciences).
Full title: Use of the Proportional Compass and the Universal Instrument to Solve Problems in Practical Geometry Promptly and Very Precisely, Both on Paper and in the Field, Without Any Calculation.
Edition: New edition, enriched with intaglio illustrations.
Year of publication: 1748 (MDCCXLVIII).
Place and Publisher: Paris, Quai des Augustins, at Charles-Antoine Jombert’s.
Format: In-12° (17 x 10 cm).
Pagination / Collation formula: xx, 240 pp., XII leaves of folded plates.
Illustrations: 12 copper-engraved plates, outside the text and folded, at the end of the volume.
Binding: Contemporary 18th-century leather binding. Spine with five raised bands and compartments originally decorated in gilt; retains the original leather label with the title stamped in gilt lettering.
Contemporary marbled-paper endpapers present at both the beginning and end of the volume (one leaf at each end).
Edges of the boards colored red.
Condition: A genuine and structurally sound copy, although it shows widespread signs of age. There are abrasions and superficial scuffing to the boards (typical of aged leather), wear and small losses concentrated at the head and tail of the spine and along the joints, with bumped corners and the structural board partially exposed.
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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