SLIDE RULE MANUALS IN FRENCH, 14 VOL.

i. [Anonymous]. Instruction sur la manière de se servir de la règle a calcul, dite règle Anglaise, ou sliding rule. Dijon: Douillier, 1823, 13 lithographed plates with figs. 1-20, [T&W M136], most plates looseii. [Anonymous]. Instruction sur la manière de se servir de la règle a calcul… seconde édition. Dijon: Douillier, 1824, 14 plates with figs. 1-21, [T&W M137]iii. [Anonymous]. Instruction sur la manière de se servir de la règle a calcul… seconde édition. Paris: Bachelier & Dijon: Douillier, 1825, 14 plates with figs. 1-21, contemporary calf-backed boards, [T&W M138]iv. Mouzin, P. Instruction sur la manière de se servir de la règle a calcul… troisième édition. Paris: Bachelier & Dijon: Douillier, 1837, signed by Mouzin, 14 plates with figs. 1-23, half morocco, (James Carson Brevoort (1818-1887), book label, and note by his grandson), [T&W M139], spottedv. Mannheim, [Victor Mayer] Amédée (1831-1906‏). Règle à calculs. Paris: Tavernier-Gravet, [?1851], 4pp., unbound, [T&W M32], cropped with slight lossvi. Labosne, A. Instruction sur la régle a calcul. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1872, (bought from Pickering & Chatto, 1992), [T&W L7], spottedvii. Guy, F. Instruction sur la règle a calcul. Paris: Tavernier-Gravet, 1872, [T&W G110]viii. Peraux, E. Instruction sur la règle a calcul. Paris: Tavernier-Gravet, 1893, half calf with original wrappers bound in, (bookplate of Sir David Lionel Salomons), [T&W P42]ix. Beghin, Auguste. Règle à calculs. Paris: Béranger, 1904, (bought from Brieux, 1996), [T&W B126]x. Ibid. Règle à calculs. Paris: Béranger, 1912, [T&W B127]xi. Dreyssé, A. Instruction détaillée sur la règle a calcul Mannheim. Paris: Vuibert et Nony, [?1910], [T&W D65]xii. Arnault, Jules, and Paineau, Louis. Mode d'emploi du nouveau calculateur Arnault-Paineau. [No place, c.1920], [T&W A98]xiii. Lemoine, Jean. Instruction pratique sur la règle à calculs universelle Barbotheu "J.D.". Vincennes: Rosay, 1925, [T&W L75]xiv. Morellon, P. Pour calculer facilement avec rapidité et precision… la règle à calcul. Paris, [c.1950], [T&W M128] 12mo and 8vo, all in original wrappers unless otherwise stated, a few slightly worn

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Tomash & Williams attribute the first three volumes in this lot to Mouzin. However it seems Mouzin was not involved until the edition of 1837.