Traité du calcul intégral pour servir de suite à l’analyse des Infiniment-Petits par M. le marquis de l’Hôpital. Tome I.

FIRST EDITION of this important work by Bougainville, which opened the doors of the Royal Society of London to him. Volume 1. Complete with the 3 folding plates.

The volume presented here can be considered to have been part of the city of Paris library before the "transmission of books" by the Directory to the Institut and the disappearance of many scientific works

(many of which are now found in the Hermitage...). This volume does not bear the ex-libris of the Institut. It is part of the first donations from the Bishop of Livry to the Paris library (no internal mark from the Paris library). Source: Histoire de Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1873, volume 3 p. 201.

Volume 2 of this work would appear in 1756 (Brunet, VI, 7896). The 1754 part deals with the rules for calculating differentials, exponentials, and logarithms, as well as the rules for integral calculus with a single variable and of the first order. The 1756 part addresses differential calculus of higher orders and with multiple variables.