BESSON (François). La pratique de géométrie... divisée en tr - Lot 82

BESSON (François). La pratique de géométrie... divisée en trois livres... Ensemble les IV. & XIII. livres des Élémens d'Euclide... Et une poligonométrie. Paris, Jean Moreau, 1626. In-4, 17.5 x 23 cm, 2ff. 226pp. 1 f., 19th-century binding in marbled fawn half-basane, spine decorated with gilt faux-nerfs. First edition illustrated with numerous woodcut geometrical figures. Poligonometry has a special title. François Besson was clerk of the finance office of the generality of Languedoc, in Bourges. Good condition. Significant traces of dried soil on a few leaves. Faint old wetness at the end of the volume. Period handwritten bookplate on title Pierre Noiset (the translator of C. Siemienowicz's Grand art d'artillerie in 1651?). Spine rubbed, one corner of binding broken, but not missing.