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Commercium philosophicum et mathematicum. Lausanne and Geneva: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1745. 2 vols. 4to (235 x 180 mm). 258 and 247 leaves, engraved frontispiece portrait of Leibniz, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, 23 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt titles on red morocco spine label, marbled paste-downs and endpapers, hinges starting, shelf wear, some pages browned. Provenance : Daniel Huber (Swiss mathematician, 1768-1829, ownership inscription dated 1792); Désiré Roustan (French philosopher, 1873-1914, bookplate); E.S. Murdoch (ownership inscription dated 1956); FIRST EDITION of this important work that contains the main arguments in Leibniz's favor in the dispute over priority claims between Leibniz and Isaac Newton over the invention of calculus, supported by the correspondence between Leibnitz and Bernoulli. Babson 196.