Anville's Proposition d'une mesure de la terre

D'ANVILLE, (JEAN-BAPTISTE BOURGIGNON). Proposition d'une mesure de la terre, dont il résulte une diminution considérable dans sa circonference sur les paralleles. Paris (chez Chaubert) 1735.Small 8:o. (10), (1)-11, (last blank), (1), xii-xxix, (3), (1)-147, (1 blank) pp. 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary brown mottled calf, somewhat worn, gilt borders, gilt inner borders, gilt edges of covers, gilt somewhat faded spine, some small damages at head and foot, marbled edges. Bookseller's label on inside of upper cover "Librairie F. Savy, Paris", bookplate of "Ex bibliotheca Michaelis Chasles Acad. Scientiar. Socii." From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).