POISSON, S.D. (SIMÉON-DENIS).

Traité de Mécanique. 2 Vols.

Paris, Courcier, 1811 Clotbacked blue boards preserving the original printed title-labels. Stamps on title-pages. XXVIII,(2),507;XXVIII,(2),500 pp. and 7 folded engraved plates. A dampstain to lower right corners of 4 plates in volume I and to 3 in volume II. A dampstain to lower right corners on the first 8 leaves in volume II. A few brownspots. In general clean and printed on good paper.

First edition of this classic work, written in the style of Laplace and Lagrange it was for a long time a standard work in analytical mechanics. Here he introduced many novelties such as an explicit usage of momenta.

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