Meanings of first treatise in English

At the commencement of the first treatise page 6 you see that Mr.

The first treatise appeared: its subject was NONCHALANCE.

Postscript to the first treatise.

In architecture's first treatise, Vitruvius describes a remarkably similar evolutionary process, and he was writing almost two thousand years before Darwin.

Although this volume is the first treatise on the subject of which I know, it is less an original offering than a compilation.

In his four volumes of "Politique Positive," M. Comte revises and reelaborates the scientific and historical expositions of his first treatise.

For further information on this subject see the first Treatise on the Var.

Its first treatises appeared in sixpenny numbers, once a fortnight.

This reference to long exile leads to an inference that the First Treatise was written much later than 1300.