Midy, E. De Quleques Proprietes des Nombres et des Fractions Decimales Peridoiques. Published in Nantes, 1836. 10x7 inches, 21pp. Long (and large) presentation copy, taking half of the printed cover wrapper: signed with "hommage" and Midy's initials, 1861. This is also one of the longest-after-publication dedications that I have ever seen. In the original printed wrappers. Near-fine copy. $350. SOLD (The presentation is to a M. Beaudremont/Beaumont (?) on the sciences faculty of the University of Bordeaux.)
The first publication of Midy's theorem: see here for "Generalizations of Mody's Theorem on Repeating Decimals", in Integers: Electronic Journal of Combinaorial Number Theory, 7 (2007) #A03, by Harold W. Martin and "A Theorem on Repeating Decimals" by W. G. Leavitt in American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 74, No. 6 (June – July, 1967) , pp. 669–673.
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