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12885 OZANAM (Jacques; de /' Academic des Sciences) CURSUS MATHEMATICUS : or a Corapleat 

 Course of the Mathematics, VOLS. I-IV, containing I. Algebra, and the Elements of Euclid. 

 II. Arithmetic and Trigonometry. III. Geometry and Fortification. IV. Mechanics, and 

 Perspective, now done in English, with Additions and Corrections by Several Hands, with numer- 

 ous copperplates, 4 vols. 8vo. contemporary calf, 4s Orf 1712 



12886 [ ] METHODE de LEVER les PLANS et Jes CARTES de TERRE et de MER, avec toutes Sortes 

 d'Instrumens et sans Instrumens ; nouvelle Edition ; with 16 folding copperplates of Surveying 

 Instruments, etc., IQmn.fine copy in old calf gilt, 5s 1750 



NOUVEAUX ELEMENS d'ALGEBRE, ou Principes generaux, pour resoudre toutes Sortes 

 de Problmes de Mathernatique ; with front, and diagrams, 2 vols. 8vo. in 1, old calf (joints 

 cracked), Is Qd Amsterdam, 1702 



'Leibnitz parle avantageusement de cet ouvrage dans son Commercium Epistolicum avec Bernoulli, a cause de quelques 

 methodes algebriques utiles dans la reduction des quantites irrationnelles. II y resoud d'ailleurs un grand norabre de 

 questions de 1'analyse indeterminee, et sur les triangles rectangles en nombres.' Montucla. 



12888 RECREATIONS MATHEMATIQUES et PHYSIQUES, qui contiennent plusieurs Problemes 



d'Arithmetique, de Geometrie, de Musique, d'Optique, de Gnomonique, de Cosmographie, de 

 Mecanique, de Pyrotechnic, et de Physique, avec un TRAITE des HORLOGES ELEMENTAIRES ; 

 nouvelle Edition, augmentee [par M. GRANDIN] ; with over 100 copperplates, 4 vols. 8vo. con- 

 temporary calf, 12s Qd 1725, or '50 



' Get ouvrage curieuxcontient la solution d'une foule de problemes. On y trouve encore un traite de horloges tlementaires, 

 une dissertation sur les lampes perpetuclles, enfin un ample recueil de tours de gobeJets et d'escamotage '. Qiwrard. 



' Best edition of an interesting work. Half the first volume is devoted to the theory of numbers, of which 

 Ozanam was a perfect master*. Libri Catalogue. 



It is the final edition in the original form of this well-known work, which was afterwards almost entirely rewritten 

 by Montucla. 



]o 889 RECREATIONS MATHEMATICAL and PHYSICAL; laying down and solving many 



Profitable and Delightful Problems, of Arithmetick, Geometry, Opticks, Gnomonicks, Cosmo- 

 graphy, Mechanicks, Physics, and Pyrotechny, done into English, with 28 copperplates, and 

 numerous woodcuts, 8vo. old calf gilt (one joint cracked, but a sound copy) ; rare, 10s 6d 1708 



12890 NEW EDITION, styled : RECREATIONS in MATHEMATICS and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, 



lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged by J. E. MONTUCLA ; and now translated, with many 

 Additions and Observations, by CHARLES BUTTON, F.R.S., with 98 folding plates, 4 thick vols. 

 Svo. contemporary hf. morocco (SCARCE), 1. Is 1803 



BEST ENGLISH EDITION of this popular work. Ozanam's work itself was based on those of Bachet de Meziriac (v. Nos. 

 204 and 5901), Jean Leurechon (' Henri van Etten ' ; v. Nos. 7604-8 and 10770-4), and Mydorgue (v. No. 3170). 



' I believe that it would be difficult to find in any of the books current in England on mathematical amusements as 

 many as a dozen puzzles which are not contained in one of these four volumes '. W. W. R Ball. The above edition has 

 also been used, and is frequently referred to, in Mr. BaU's Mathematical Recreations and Problems. 



12891 TABULAE SINUUM, TANGENTIUM et SECANTIUM ad 10000000 Partium Radium, necnon 



LOGARITHMORUM, Sinuum ac Tangentium ad 10000000000 Partium Radium, Svo. old calf (sound 

 copy), 5s Amstelodami, 1697 



12892 TRAITE des LIGNES du PREMIER GENRE, expliquees par une Methode nouvelle et facile : 



TRAITE de la CONSTRUCTION des EQUATIONS, pour la Solution des PROBLEMES INDETERMINEZ : 

 TRAITE des LIEUX GEOMETRIQUES, expliquez par une Methode courte et facile ; with 34 plates, 

 3 vols. 4to. in 1, old calf gilt (back slightly rubbed), with armorial bookplate of l Lady Dowager 

 Arundell ' (RARE), 15s 1687 



The author solves equations of a higher degree than the second by means of conic sections. The third work is a 

 treatise on analytical geometry, while the first contains the solution of 4 ' curious ' problems, ' qui estdenotre invention, et 

 que je n'ay communiquee qu'a pen de personnes.' 



12893 TREATISE of FORTIFICATION, containing the Ancient and Modern Method of the Con- 

 struction and Defence of Places, and the Manner of Carrying on Sieges, done into English, and 

 amended by J. T. DESAGULIERS, of Hart-Hall, Oxon. [F.R.S.], with Appendix, concerning the 

 Manner of Fortifying, which is truly MR. VAUBAN'S : never before in English, with 46 plates 

 (many folding), Svo. old calf (back damaged), 5s Oxford, 1711 



12894 SECOND EDITION, with PLAN of GIBRALTAR, with its Fortifications, shewing* the great 



Strength and Use of it, with 46 plates, and 2 folding maps, Svo. old calf, neatly rebacked, with the 

 fine gilt morocco armorial booklabel of Edward Hailstone, 8s tid 1727 



Gibraltar in English hands had already withstood one stiff siege in 1704-5. 



12895 USAGE du COMPAS de PROPORTION, et de UNSTRUMENT UNIVERSEL, pour resoudre 



promptement et tres-exactement les Problemes de la Geometrie pratique, tant sur le Papier que 

 sur le Terrein, sans aucun Calcul, avec Traite de la Division des Champs ; nouvelle Edition ; with 

 Infolding copperplates, large 12mo. sound copy in old French calf extra (rare), 10s 6d 1769 



The first edition containing a description of both instruments. It was unknown to Querard. 



12896 USAGE de HNSTRUMENT UNIVERSEL, pour resoudre promtement et tres-exactement 



tous les Problemes de la Geometric pratique sans aucun Calcul, premiere edition ; withl folding 

 plates (one illustrating the instrument), 12mo. old calf gilt (rare), 8* 6d 1688 



The author claims to have been the first to use the instrument in all surveying operations. 



It would be interesting to know for certain whether Ozanam the mathematician was an ancestor of the pious and 

 gifted litterateur ANTOINE FREDERIC OZANAM, friend of Lacordaire and co-founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 

 the centenary of whose birth was kept in Paris in April, 1013. 



12897 PAGNINI (Giovanni) COSTRUZIONE ed Usodel COMPASSO di PROPORZIONE ; with 15 plates, 

 4to. hf. cL, Is 6d Napoli, 1753 



'Si esteude particolarmente nella risoluzione di molti probleini relativi all' uso di questo strumento.' Riccardi. 



12898 PALAA (Germain, conducteur des ponts et chaussees) DICTIONNAIRE LEGISLATIF et REGLE- 

 MENTAIRE des CHEMINS de PER, contenant le Resume" des Documents Officiels en Vigueur et les 

 principaux Renseignements Pratiques sur I'Etablissement, 1'Entretien, la Police et 1'Exploitation 

 des Voies Ferrees, roy. Svo. (pp. 1018), hf. calf gilt, 5s 1864 



