Sales catalogue 216: Pickering & Chatto

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/119
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 216: Pickering & Chatto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    12/144 page 992
    SMYTH (NICHOLAS). 3919b FTHE HISTORY OF HERODIAN, a Greeke Authour, treating of the Roman Emperors after Marcus, translated oute of Greeke into Latin by Angelus Politianus, AND OUT OF LATIN INTO ENGLISH BY NICHOLAS SMYTH. Whereunto are annexed, the argumentes of every Booke, at the begynyng thereof, with Annotacions for the better under- standynge of the same History. Wdeliam Coplande (colophon) %lm- prynted at London, in Fletestrete, by Wyllyam Coplande, at the Signe of the Rose Garland [1550]. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Black Letter. Sm. 4to, ornamental border around title-page (see Re- production), old calf blind tooled, a small but fairly good copy of AN EXTREMELY RARE ‘BOOK. £16 16s TAVERNER (RICHARD). 3920 | THE GARDEN of Wysdome conteynynge pleasaunte floures, that is to saye, propre and qui- ke sayings of Princes, Philosophers and other sortes of men, Drawne forth of good aucthours, by Richard Taverner. Newly recognised and augmen- . ted. Imprynted at London in the Fleetstrete at the sygne of the Rose Garland by Wyllyam Copland. [c. 1550. | 12mo. Black Letter. <A few preliminary leaves stained, and one leaf Sig. F4, zu facstmile, morocco extra, gilt edges, good copy. £16 16s Richard Taverner, to the Reader (1 p.). RECORDE (ROBERT). ni 7 ae 3920a The Pathway to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geo- metrie, AS THEY MAY MOSTE APTLY BE APPLIED UNTO PRAC- TISE, BOTHE FOR USE OF INSTRUMENTES, GEOMETRIGABE AND ASTRONOMICALL, and also for Protection of plattes in everye kinde, and therefore much necessary for all sortes of men. (See Re- production of title-page.) (Colophon.) J/mfrinted at London in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Brasen Serpent, by Reynold Wolfe.... 1551. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, numerous geometrical diagrams, original vellum, RARE. | £32 The second volume has a separate title: The Second Booke of the Principles of Geometrie, containyng certaine Theoremes, which may bee called approued Truthes. And be as it were the moste certaing Groundes, whereon the practtike Conclusions of Geometrie are founded. Whereunto are annexed certaine Declarations by Examples. ... . According to Professor de Morgan this work contains the first use of the term ‘© sine.’ in English. “ He explains solar and lunar eclipses, promises a treatise on cosmography, and gives a description of Euclid Bk. I., Prop. IV., a method of working verious questions in practical geometry, and a list of astronomical instruments in use. There is also a rough determination of the magnitude of the earth, which is said to be 21,600 miles round.”—D, N. B
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