Catalogue de la bibliotheque scientifique, historique et litteraire de feu M. Michel Chasles [ A. Claudin, auction catalogue, sale date: 27 Juin-18 Juillet 1881].

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Mchasles, M. Printed wrappers, 8vo, 390, [1] pp, ills. Scarce. A still rarer supplement of 24 pages is not present here. The first part of the catalogue (lots 1-1404) is arranged in five sections; the second part (Lots 1405-3926) is devoted to the extraordinary library of works on the mathematical sciences built up by Michel Chasles, himself a distinguished mathematician and one of the 72 scientists, engineers and mathematicians honoured by having their names painted on the Eiffel Tower, Chasles' other claim to fame is as one of the victims of the forger Denis Vrain-Lucas: Chasles's purchases included letters from Alexander the Great to Aristotle, from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar, and from Mary Magdalene to a revived Lazarus, all in a fake medieval French. Lot numbers written on front wrapper, wrappers darkened around spine, otherwise Near Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-52711

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