(Mathematics) Bernard Forest de Bélidor. "New... Lot 43

(Mathematics) Bernard Forest de Bélidor. "New course of mathematics has the use of the artillery and the genius or one applies the most useful parts of this science to the theory & to the practice of the various subjects which can have report with the war. Dedicated to his Serene Highness Monseigneur the Duke of Maine ". In Paris, at Nyon, 1725. In-4 bound in full contemporary basane, spine ribbed and decorated. Red leather title-piece. Colored endpapers. Title, (XI ff) 560 pages. Table. Two cartouches. Complete with 34 plates. A solidly bound copy. First edition. Plate 1 defoliated and soiled, classical rubbing to the boards, small leather lacks to the binding, endpapers and edges lightened, a clear ring running through the book in the inner margin without affecting the text except on the last few leaves of the table a bit more pronounced.