CHÉRUBIN D'ORLÉANS

Effects of the force of the continuity of bodies Paris, Edmé Couterot, 1679 A COPY BEARING THE ARMS OF MICHEL LE TELLIER DE LOUVOIS, CITED BY OLIVIER-HERMAL-DE ROTON. ORIGINAL EDITION In-12 (155 x 92 mm). Initials and woodcuts. Regulated in red COLLATION : a12 e6 A-T12 V6 CONTENTS : a1r : title, a2r : Epistle, a5r : Preface, a11r : Table of chapters, A1r : text, V6r : warning ILLUSTRATION : 21 copper engravings, out of text 17th century binding. Red morocco, gilt decoration, arms, triple fillet in frame, spines decorated with nerves, gilt edges PROVENANCE: Michel Le Tellier de Louvois (1603-1685; arms) -- Antoine-Bernard Caillard (1737-1807, Paris, his sale, 1810, No. 320) -- Librairie Ch. Bosse, ca. 1929, according to O.H.R. Without frontispiece, leaf M1 marginal tear BIBLIOGRAPHY: O.H.R., pl. 1753-5 -- Charles Perrault, Les Hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1700, t.2, p. 47-48