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032-002097541

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ORIGINAL letters, chiefly addressed to Gabriel Cramer, Professor of Mathematics at Geneva; 1728-1830. The writers are [Jean le Rond] d'Alembert; Paris, 16 June, 1748. Fr. f. 4. [L'Abbé Étienne Bonnot] de Condillac; n.d. [circa 1750]. Fr.; with seal. f. 6. [Henri François] d'Aguesseau [Chancellor of France]; Paris, 6 Sept. 1748. Fr. f. 8. [George Louis Leclerc, Comte de] Buffon; Chateau de Montbard, 5 Sept. 1748. Fr.; with seal. f. 10. [Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de] Breteuil [Marquise] Duchatellet; Paris, 8 May, 1745. Fr. f. 12. [Jean Claude Adrien] Helvetius; 22 Apr. [1747]. Fr. f. 15. L[éonard] Euler; Berlin, 13 Aug. 1746. With mathematical diagrams. Fr. f. 17. [Charles] Bonnet; Tonnax [Tonnac, in Languedoc?], 23 July, 1745. Fr. f. 19. [Alexis Claude] Clairaut; Paris, 27 Apr. 1745. Fr.; with seal. f. 21. J[ean] Bernou[i]lli; Basle, 22 Aug. 1750. Fr. f. 23. [René Antoine Ferchault] de Réaumur; Vaujour, près Paris, 10 Nov. 1750. Fr.; with seal. f. 25. [L'Abbé Gabriel Bonnot de] Mably; Paris, 25 Nov. 1750. Fr.; with seal. f. 27. [Bernard Le Bouyer de] Fontenelle [Perpetual Secretary to the Académie des Sciences]; Paris, 1 Oct. 1750. Fr. f. 29. [Pierre Louis Moreau de] Maupertuis; Potsdam, 13 Oct. 1750. Fr. f. 30. [Jean Philippe] Rameau; Paris, 18 Feb, 1750, f. 31. Frederic, P[rince] H[éréditaire] de S[axe] G[otha] et A[ltenburg]; Gotha, 30 Dec. 1750. Fr. f. 32. G[uillaume] J[acob] Gravesande; Dec. 1732. Fr. f. 33. [Jean Jacob] Vernet; Parma, 15 Dec. 1728. Fr. 34. A[braham] de Moivre; London, 30 Apr. 1731. Fr. f. 36. F[rancesco] Algarotti; 18 Jan. 1741. Fr. f. 38. [Charles Marie de] La Condamine; Paris, 1 Jan. 1752. Fr. f. 39. [Jean Jacques] Dortous de Mairan; Paris, 22 July, 1750. Fr.; with seal. f. 40. [Le Père René] Bossu; Paris, 19 Nov. 1751. Fr. f. 42. J[an] V[an] Musschenbroek; Leyden, 19 Aug. 1746. Fr. f. 44. [Claudine Alexandrine Guérin, Marquise] de Tencin; Passy, 4 Sept. 1748. Fr. f. 46. G[eorges] L[ouis] Le Sage; Paris, 26 Feb. 1747. Fr. f. 48. A[braham] Trembley; Sorgoliet, 29 June, 1744. Fr. f. 50. G[iovanni] L[udovico] Calandrini; Geneva, 12 Dec. 1747. Fr. f. 52. Beaupré Bell, jun.; 16 July 1735. f. 54. G[abriel] Cramer to ; Paris, 6 May, 1729. Fr. f. 55. [Louis Jean Marie] Daubenton; Dijon, 15 Nov. 1749. Fr. f. 56. [Antoine Joseph Dezallier] d'Argenville; Paris, 15 Dec. 1749. Fr. f. 58. J[ohann] H[einrich Samuel] Formey, [Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres at Berlin]; Berlin, 10 Oct 1750. Fr. f. 60. [Daniel Charles] Trudaine [Intendant général des finances]; 19 May, 1748. Fr. f. 62. Samuel Koenig; Berne, 11 Jan. 1744. Fr. f. 63. Madame Alleon Dupré de St. Maur; Paris, 29 Dec. 1748. Fr. f. 65. J[ean] A[ndré] de Luc to J. Antoine Courlet; Windsor, 16 Sept, 1783. Fr. f. 66. [Baron Dominique Vivant] Denon to Bishop; n.d. [circa 1790 ?] Fr. f. 68. [Antoine Isaac Silvestre, Baron de Sacy] to ; Paris, 20 July, 1815. Imperfect at the end. Fr. f. 70. [Étienne Marc] Quatremère to ; Paris, 31 Aug. 1815. Fr. f. 71. [Amable Louis Marie Michel Bréchillet] Jourdain, "Secretaire de 1'école des langues Orientales," to Dr. [John David] Macbride, Professor of Arabic at Oxford; Paris, 3 Aug. 1815. Fr. f. 72. L[ouis Matthieu] Langlès to the same; [Paris], 6 Sept. 1815. Fr. f. 74. Rose de Freycinet to Miss Ashburner; [Paris], 27 Jan. 1824. Fr. f. 76. John [Jebb, Bishop of ] Limerick to Dr. Cotton [Provost of Worcester College, Oxford]; Leamington, 6 Oct. 1830. f. 78. Paper. Quarto.

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Gabriel Cramer, Mathematician, of Geneva: Letters to, from various persons: 1731-1750.: Eng. and Fr.

includes:

f. 4 Jean Alembert le Rond: Letter. to G. Cramer: 1748.: Fr.
f. 6 Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, Abbé: Letter to G. Cramer: circ. 1750.: Fr.
f. 8 Henri François d' Aguesseau, Chancellor of France, son of Henri d'Aguesseau, Intendant: Letter to G. Cramer: 1748.: Fr.
f. 10 George Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon: Letter to G. Cramer: 1748.: Fr.
f. 12 Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatellet: Letter to O. Cramer: 1745.: Fr.
f. 15 Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius, Physician to the Duc d'Orléans: Letter to G. Cramer: 1747.: Fr.
f. 17 Leonard Euler: Letter to Prof. Cramer: 1746.: Fr.
f. 19 Charles Bonnet, Swiss Naturalist: Letter to G. Cramer: 1745.: Fr.
f. 21 Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician: Letter to G. Cramer: 1745.: Fr.
f. 23 Jean Bernouilli, Professor of Mathematics at Basle: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 25 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, physicist: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 27 Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Abbé: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 29 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French author: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 30 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, FRS; French mathematician and astronomer: Letter. to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 31 Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer and theorist: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 32 Frederic Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, Hereditary Prince of, son of Frederic III, Duke of Saxe- Gotha: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 33 Willem Jacob Gravesande: Letter to G. Cramer: 1732.: Fr.
f. 34 Jean Jacob Vernet: Letter to G. Cramer: 1728.: Fr.
f.. 36 Abraham de Moivre, Mathematician: Letter to G. Cramer: 1731.: Fr.
f. 38 Count Francesco Algarotti,; Italian scholar: Letter to G. Cramer: 1741.: Fr.
f. 39 Charles Marie de La Condamine: Letter to G. Cramer: 1752.: Fr.
f. 42 René Bossu, Père: Letter to G. Cramer: 1751.: Fr.
f. 44 Jan van Musschenbrock, Mechanician: Letter to G. Cramer: 1746.: Fr.
f. 46 Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Madame de Tencin: Letter to G. Cramer: 1748.: Fr.
f. 48 Georges Louis Le Sage, The Younger: Letter to G. Cramer: 1747.: Fr.
f. 50 Jean Jacques Dortous de Mairan, FRS; French physicist: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 50 Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist: Letter to G. Cramer: 1744.: Fr.
f. 52 Giovanni Ludovico Calandrini: Letter to G. Cramer: 1747.: Fr.
f. 54 Beaupré Bell, the younger; antiquary: Letter to G. Cramer: 1735.
f. 55 Gabriel Cramer, Mathematician, of Geneva: Letter to -: 1729.: Fr.
f. 56 Louis Jean Marie Daubenton, French Naturalist: Letters to G. Cramer and another: 1749, circ. 1760.: Fr.
f. 58 Antoine Joseph Dezallier Dargenville: Letter to G. Cramer: 1749.: Fr.
f. 60 Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin: Letter to G. Cramer: 1750.: Fr.
f. 62 Daniel Charles Trudaine, Intendant Général des Finances: Letter to G. Cramer: 1748.: Fr.
f. 63 Samuel Koenig: Letter to G. Cramer: 1744.: Fr.
f. 65 Alleon Dupré de St. Maur, Madame: Letter to: 1748.: Fr.
f. 66 Jean André de Luc: Letter to J. A. Courlet: 1783.: Fr.
f. 68 Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon: Letter to --- Bishop: circ. 1790: Fr.
f. 70 Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Baron: Letters to G. Cramer: 1815: Fr.
f. 71 Etienne Marc. Quatremère, Orientalist: Letter to -: 1815.: Fr.
f. 72 Amable Louis Marie Michel Brechillet Jourdain, Secretaire de l'école des langues Orientales à Paris: Letter to Prof. Macbride: 1815.: Fr.
f. 74 Louis Matthieu Langles: Letter to Prof. Macbride: 1815.: Fr.
f. 76 Rose de Freycinet: Letter to Miss Ashburner: 1824.: Fr.
f. 78 John Jebb, Bishop of Limerick: Letter to Dr. Cotton: 1830.

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1728

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1830

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1728-1830

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Names:

Aguesseau, Henri François, Chancellor of France, son of Henri d'Aguesseau, Intendant
Algarotti, Francesco, Count, Italian scholar
Bell, Beaupré, the younger; antiquary
Bernouilli, Jean, Professor of Mathematics at Basle
Bonnet, Charles, Swiss Naturalist
Bonnot de Condillac, Etienne, Abbé
Bonnot de Mably, Gabriel, Abbé
Bossu, René, Père
Brechillet Jourdain, Amable Louis Marie Michel, Secretaire de l'école des langues Orientales à Paris
Calandrini, Giovanni Ludovico
Châtelet, Gabrielle Émilie, née Le Tonnelier de Breteuil; natural philosopher, mathematician and translator, 1706-1749
Clairaut, Alexis Claude, French mathematician
Cramer, Gabriel, Mathematician, of Geneva
Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie, naturalist, 1716-1800
Euler, Leonhard, Swiss mathematician, 1707-1783
Fontenelle, Bernard, French author and academic, 1657-1757
Formey, Johann Heinrich Samuel, Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin
Freycinet, Rose
Gravesande, Willem Jacob, mathematician and natural philosopher, 1688-1742
Helvétius, Jean Claude Adrien, Physician to the Duc d'Orléans
Jebb, John, Bishop of Limerick
Koenig, Samuel
La Condamine, Charles Marie, of Add MS 20790
Langles, Louis Matthieu
Le Clerc, George Louis, Comte de Buffon
Le Sage, Georges Louis, The Younger
Luc, Jean André
Mairan, Jean-Jacques, physicist and astronomer, 1678-1771
Moivre, Abraham, Mathematician
Moreau de Maupertuis, Pierre Louis, FRS; French mathematician and astronomer
Musschenbrock, Jan, Mechanician
Quatremère, Etienne Marc., Orientalist
Rameau, Jean-Philippe, composer and theorist, 1683-1764
Réaumur, René Antoine, entomologist, 1683-1757
Saint-Maur, Marie Marthe, wife of Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur, 1744-1801
Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, Frederic, Hereditary Prince of, son of Frederic III, Duke of Saxe- Gotha
Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine Isaac, Baron, of Add MS 21026
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, salonist and author, 1682-1749
Trembley, Abraham, Swiss naturalist
Trudaine, Daniel Charles, Intendant Général des Finances
Vernet, Jean Jacob
Vivant, Dominique, Baron Denon
d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond, French mathematician, 1717-1783
d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph Dezallier, writer and secretary to the King of France, 1680-1765