LEIBNIZ, [Gottfried Wilhelm von] (1646-1716) and Jean BERNOULLI (1667-1748). Commercium philosophicum et mathematicum . Lausanne and Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1745.
LEIBNIZ, [Gottfried Wilhelm von] (1646-1716) and Jean BERNOULLI (1667-1748). Commercium philosophicum et mathematicum . Lausanne and Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1745. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (244 x 194mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Leibniz, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, 23 folding engraved plates. (Some light spotting). Contemporary marbled boards (textblock detached at upper joint, endpapers renewed). Provenance : 'J.C.H. Gebauer / Hamburg. 1827' (inscriptions on title versos). FIRST EDITION on this important work ‘on the question of the rival claims to priority in the invention of the calculus, between Newton and Leibniz. It was the only serious claim published in Leibniz’s favour’ (Babson). Babson 196; Honeyman 1975.
LEIBNIZ, [Gottfried Wilhelm von] (1646-1716) and Jean BERNOULLI (1667-1748). Commercium philosophicum et mathematicum . Lausanne and Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1745.
LEIBNIZ, [Gottfried Wilhelm von] (1646-1716) and Jean BERNOULLI (1667-1748). Commercium philosophicum et mathematicum . Lausanne and Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1745. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (244 x 194mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Leibniz, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, 23 folding engraved plates. (Some light spotting). Contemporary marbled boards (textblock detached at upper joint, endpapers renewed). Provenance : 'J.C.H. Gebauer / Hamburg. 1827' (inscriptions on title versos). FIRST EDITION on this important work ‘on the question of the rival claims to priority in the invention of the calculus, between Newton and Leibniz. It was the only serious claim published in Leibniz’s favour’ (Babson). Babson 196; Honeyman 1975.
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