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247 - [DU CHÂTELET (Émilie). Institutions de physique. Paris, Prau…
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[DU CHÂTELET (Émilie). Institutions de physique. Paris, Prault, 1740. 8 pages, marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (contemporary binding). First edition of the first work written by the Marquise du Châtelet. It is illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, 11 out-of-text plates, most of them folding, and 22 vignettes, all engraved in intaglio. From the Théodore de Bauffremont-Courtenay library, with bookplate. Without the errata, which also does not appear in the BnF copy. Corners dulled, one hinge split. Lalande, 439.
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About the sale Antiquarian books from the 15th to the 19th century - Astronomy
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