ALEXANDRE (Jacques). Traité du flux et reflux de la mer (Tre - Lot 143

ALEXANDRE (Jacques). Traité du flux et reflux de la mer (Treatise on the ebb and flow of the sea), in which the nature, causes and particularities of this phenomenon are explained in a new and simple manner... A Paris, chez Babuty, 1726. In-12, XIV p., [4] f., 176 p., pl., contemporary havana basane, 5-ribbed spine, red title page, ornate caissons, red edges (rubbing, 2 corners dull). Curious work which won the Bordeaux Academy prize in 1726 and which appeared the same year in Bordeaux and in this Parisian edition. The illustration consists of 7 copper-engraved plates: only 6 are listed in the table, the last of which contains 3 figures intended as moving parts on plates no. 2, 3 and 4. Without the bookseller's catalog, often found bound at the end.