Mechain (Pierre) and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Base du Systeme Metrique Decimal, ou Mesure de l'Arc du Meridien compris entre les Paralleles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, 28 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing and browning, uncut, vol.1 and 2 in original marbled boards, vol.3 in original marbled wrappers, vol.1 and 2 with printed paper spine labels (rubbed and torn), vol.3 with manuscript spine lettering, spines worn and torn, board corners and extremities worn, [Norman 1481; PMM 260], Paris, Baudouin, 1806-07-10 § Biot (Jean Baptiste) and Dominique Francois Jean Arago. Recueil d'Observations Geodesiques, Astronomiques et Physiques, first edition, half-title, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing and light browning, first few leaves partially frayed and stained to upper edge and corner owing to lack of top half of upper wrapper, uncut in original wrappers, paper spine label rubbed, spine worn, Paris, Mme. Ve. Courcier, 1821, 4to (4) ⁂ First edition of the work which marked the introduction of the international metric system. In 1792 the pre-eminent astronomers Pierre Méchain (1744-1804) and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) were charged with measuring an arc of the meridien from Dunkirk to Barcelona. The results were presented in this ground-breaking publication. "The length of a metre [...] was marked on a platinum bar, and the unit of weight was also constructed of platinum [...] These original bars remained the basic standards until 1875 and are still preserved in Paris" (PMM). The Recueil of 1821, compiled by Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) and François Arago (1786-1862) on behalf of the French Bureau des Longitudes, contains the extension of the arc to the Balearic Islands, and represents the supplement to the Méchain-Delambre mesaurements. The complete four-volume set rarely appears on the market, and is offered here in a particularly desirable copy in its original wrappers. Contemporary ticket on upper cover of the first 3 volumes of the bookseller and publisher Matteo Margaillan, originally from Briançon (Dauphine), active in Neuchâtel and later in Milan.
Mechain (Pierre) and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Base du Systeme Metrique Decimal, ou Mesure de l'Arc du Meridien compris entre les Paralleles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, 28 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing and browning, uncut, vol.1 and 2 in original marbled boards, vol.3 in original marbled wrappers, vol.1 and 2 with printed paper spine labels (rubbed and torn), vol.3 with manuscript spine lettering, spines worn and torn, board corners and extremities worn, [Norman 1481; PMM 260], Paris, Baudouin, 1806-07-10 § Biot (Jean Baptiste) and Dominique Francois Jean Arago. Recueil d'Observations Geodesiques, Astronomiques et Physiques, first edition, half-title, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional foxing and light browning, first few leaves partially frayed and stained to upper edge and corner owing to lack of top half of upper wrapper, uncut in original wrappers, paper spine label rubbed, spine worn, Paris, Mme. Ve. Courcier, 1821, 4to (4) ⁂ First edition of the work which marked the introduction of the international metric system. In 1792 the pre-eminent astronomers Pierre Méchain (1744-1804) and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) were charged with measuring an arc of the meridien from Dunkirk to Barcelona. The results were presented in this ground-breaking publication. "The length of a metre [...] was marked on a platinum bar, and the unit of weight was also constructed of platinum [...] These original bars remained the basic standards until 1875 and are still preserved in Paris" (PMM). The Recueil of 1821, compiled by Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862) and François Arago (1786-1862) on behalf of the French Bureau des Longitudes, contains the extension of the arc to the Balearic Islands, and represents the supplement to the Méchain-Delambre mesaurements. The complete four-volume set rarely appears on the market, and is offered here in a particularly desirable copy in its original wrappers. Contemporary ticket on upper cover of the first 3 volumes of the bookseller and publisher Matteo Margaillan, originally from Briançon (Dauphine), active in Neuchâtel and later in Milan.
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