Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1941
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON, W.C.2. 5Y MATHEMATICS. BAKER (HUMPHREY) ARITHMETICK: Teaching the perfect Work and PRACTICE 01 ARITHMETICK, both in WHOLE NUMBERS and FRACTIONS ; whereunto are added many RULES and TABLES of INTEREST, REBATE, and PURCHASES, etc., also the ART of DECIMAL FRACTIONS . . . newly Corrected and Enlarged, and made more plain and easie by HENRY PHILLIPPES, BEST EDITION, sm. 8vo., contemp. sheep, 1670 ($12.60) £3/3/- Phillippes added considerably to Baker’s Book in this edition, giving, among other things, a chapter “‘ of Sports and Pastime done by numbers, to know what number anyone thinketh,”’ etc. BION (NICOLAS) TRAITE de la CONSTRUCTION et des PRINCIPAUX USAGES des INSTRU- MENS de MATHEMATIQUE, PREMIERE EDITION, with 28 fine copper-plates, 8vo., half mo- rocco, Paris, 1709 ($10) £2/10/- This edition is very rare and is unknown to Brunet and Quérard. On page 86 is a chapter ‘“‘ Construction de la Plume sans fin,’ which gives the first de- scription of a Fountain Pen (illustrated on plate 9). COCKER (EpwarbD, late Practitioner in the Arts of Writing Arithmetick and Engraving) DECIMAL ARITHMETICK : wherein is shewed the Nature and Life of Decimal Fractions, . . whereunto is added His ARTIFICIAL ARITHMETICK, shewing the Genesis or Fabrick of the Logarithmes . . . also His ALGEBRAICAL ARITHMETICK, containing the Doctrine of Composing and Resolving an Equation . . .; Perused, Corrected, and Published by JOHN HAwkKINs, The Extremely Rare First Edition, sm. 8vo., sprinkled calf gilt, by Bedford (upper joint cracking, but a nice copy), 1685 ($36) £9/-/- All seventeenth century editions of Cocker’s arithmetical books are rare, more especially the above work. This copy is in excellent state of preservation, uncropped by the binder ; has the ‘‘ De- dication’’ leaf; and the Commendatory Verses by William Salmon, William Ley- bourn, John Robinson, etc. EUCLID. ELEMENTS of GEOMETRY, from the Latin translation of COMMANDINE ; to which is added, a TREATISE of the NATURE and ARITHMETICK of LOGARITHMS ;.. . TRI- GONOMETRY ... etc., by DR. JOHN KEIL, . . . now done into English by SAMUEL CUNN, 18 folding plates, 8vo., half calf, 1723 ($3) 15/- EVERARD (THOMAS) STEREOMETRY, or the ART of GAUGING made easie, by the HELP of a SLIDING-RULE: which shews the Area’s of Circles in Gallons, and the Square and Cube-Root of any number under 100,000 by Inspection . . . with an APPENDIX on CONICK SECTIONS, FOURTH EDITION . . . to which is added several NEw TABLES, with SHORT and PLAIN RuLEs for GAUGING of MALT ; 2 folding plates, sm. 8vo., old calf, rebacked, 1703 ($8) £2/-/- The sliding-rule described was the author’s own invention. HOOPER (W.) RATIONAL RECREATIONS, in which the PRINCIPLES of NUMBERS and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY are clearly and copiously elucidated, by a series of EASy, ENTER- TAINING, INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS, among which are all those commonly performed with the cards, SECOND EDITION, corrected, with 65 folding plates, 4 vols, 8vo., calf, 1783 ($10) £2/10/- LE CLERC (SEBASTIEN) PRACTICAL GEOMETRY : or a NEW and Easy METHOD of TREAT- ING that ART, FOURTH EDITION of the English Translation, with 80 copper-plates, sm. 8vo., contemp. calf, 1742 . ($3.60) 18/- Remarkable for the numerous pretty views to be found on the plates, all engraved by the author himself. The book went through many editions down to 1774. MOXON (JosEPH) MATHEMATICS MADE EASIE: or a MATHEMATICAL DICTIONARY, ex- plaining the Terms of Art, and Difficult Phrases used in ARITHMETICK, GEOMETRY, ASTRONOMY, ASTROLOGY, and other MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, ... with an Appendix... of WEIGHTS and MEASURES, etc., SECOND EDITION, corrected and much enlarged by HENRY COLEY, portrait engraved by Van Hove, and 4 plates, 8vo., old rebacked panelled calf, 1692 ($7) £1/15/- WELLS (EDWARD) THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN’S TRIGONOMETRY, MECHANICKS, and Op- TICKS, containing such Elements of the said Arts or Sciences, as are most useful and Easy to be known, First EDITION, 8 plates of trigonometry, 9 of mechanical diagrams, and 14 of optics, 8vo., contemp. panelled calf, neatly rebacked, 1714 ($4) £1/-/- Each part has separate title, but pagination and signatures to the second and third parts are continuous. :
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