EULER, LEONHARD.
Élémens D'Algebre. Traduits de L'Allemand, avec des Notes et des Additions. 2 vols. (1. De L'Analyse Déterminée - 2. De L'Analyse Indéterminée).
A Lyon, Bruygset et A Paris, Veuve De-Saint, 1774. 8vo. 2 cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt backs, divided in 6 compartments by 5 raised bands. Tome- and title-labels in red leather, gilt. Covers with a few scratches, corners lightly bumped. Light wear to small part of gilding on vol. I. Bookseller's label pasted on inside of front cover: "Se vend á Bordeaux, chez P. Gauvry, Libraire..." XVI (incl. htitle),704;(4) incl. htitle,664 pp. + Approbation and Privilege du Roi (4) pp. Internally fine and clean, on good paper and with broad margins. A few pages with some ink-notes in cont. hand.
¶ First French edition of Euler's famous algebraic work, translated by his friend D. Bernoulli, and for the first time in the French translation with his "elaborated fractions" as answers to his discussion with Lagrange.
The work greatly influenced nineteenth-and twentieth-century texts on the subject, and it is one of the earliest attempts to put the fundamental processes on a sound basis.
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