TRABAUD, --.

Principes sur le Mouvement et l'Équilibre, pour servir d'Introduction aux Mecaniques et a la Physique.

25 folding engraved plates. 2 p.l., 446 pp.; 1 p.l., xxiv, 447-616, lvii, [1] pp. (a few leaves misbound). Two vols. in one. 4to, modern sheep-backed marbled boards. Paris: J. Desaint & C. Saillant, 1741. First edition. "This rare work appears here complete with the two treatises at the end, 'Sur la formation de l'ellipse' and 'Réflexions sur le mouvement,' which are often lacking. Trabaud's work is divided into six books. Book one deals with all aspects of the movement of bodies, the second book with the movement of weight, book three with percussion, and book four with statics, or the equilibrium of forces and weights. The fifth book is devoted to hydrostatics, or the equilibrium of fluids, and the sixth book to hydrodynamics, or the movement of fluids. In the text Trabaud makes reference to Jean Bernoulli, Leibniz, Varignon, Descartes, de la Hire, and other authors."­Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 325. One of the plates has a number of overlays which, when folded, represent complex forms. Very good copy. Some relatively minor marginal worming to gutter of first eighty leaves. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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