A Paris, Chez Gabriel-François Quillau, 1739-1736, 2 volumes, in-4 (25,5 x 19 cm - 10 x 7.5 inches), lvi - 438 pp., 217 pp., contemporary full brown calf (some rubbing on the first upper compartment spine of the first volume, little leather lacks on one spine-ends and 2 joints split on 5 cm and wears on corners), spine raised on 5 bands, 5 compartments decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, 2 compartments with gilt lettered brown morocco label (1 lacks partly), gilt rolls on the leading edges, sprinkled edges.
Second edition for the first volume (first edition in 1714) and first edition for the second volume. This last one was published only in 1736 after the author's death. It's the Father de Mazières who publishes it after the papers left by Charles-Rene Reyneau (1656-1728). This one was Malebranche's friend and Fontenelle calls him " the Euclide of the high geometry ". He was very interested in the debates on differential
and infinitesimal calculus provoked by the mathematician Michel Rolle (1652-1719) and took also part in the posthumous edition of the Geometry of Presle. Little browning in the lower part of the bottom of the leaves of the first volume without gravity .