Beschreibung:

circa 22,3 x 13,8 cm., 4 ff., 142 pp., 2 ff.. Contemporary decorated wrapper First edition of this biography of the mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange who had died the same year april 10th 1813. The author Cossali highlights his contributions to analysis, number theory, mechanics etc. At the end there is a longer bibliography that names also the shorter essays by Lagrange which were published in various yearbooks.

Bemerkung:

- Only minor browning or spotting, few old notes in black ink. Nice copy, uncut, bound in pretty decorated paper.