OZANAM, Jacques.
Recreations mathematiques et physiques ... Avec un traité nouveau des horloges elementaires.
"Paris" [= Northern Netherlands?], Jean Jombert, 1694. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. With diagrams and tables in text, and numerous geometrical, perspectival, technical and scientific illustrations on 64 full-page plates in the main work, and numerous illustrations of parts and details of clocks and watches on 20 full-page engraved plates in the added treatise. Contemporary sprinkled calf. [32], 400; [16], 303, [1], 163, [1], [4] pp.
€ 2,000
First edition of a popular compendium of science, presenting both serious scientific optical and physical demonstrations and experiments, and descriptions of conjuring tricks, fireworks, games with numbers, etc. The added treatise on clocks was based upon Martinelli's Horlogi elementari, with popular observations by Ozanam added. The present work became very popular and was used at schools as well as in the homes to teach youth all aspects of mathematical sciences.
The bindings show some signs of wear, mainly around the spines and the edges and corners of the boards, occasional very slight browning. Otherwise in very good condition. Hall, Old conjuring books, p. 118, et passim; Vagnetti, De naturali & artificiale perspectivs, EIIIb72; this ed. not in USTC; cf. STCN 370498976 (1 copy, 1696 ed.); USTC 1829801 (1 copy, same as STCN).
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