SLIDE RULE, ENGLISH, 5 VOLUMES

i. Foster, Samuel (d. 1652). The art of measuring, containing the description and explanation of the carpenters new rule… The second edition with additions, by W. Leybourn. To which is added, A supplement, being the description of the line of numbers… By John Wiblin, carpenter. London: John Williamson, 1677, 8vo, frontispiece, folding plate, woodcut diagrams, contemporary sheep, (bought from Roger Gaskell, Warboys, 1999), [T&W F90, L93, W46; ESTC R215073], cropped, rebacked and repaired ii. Brown, John. The description and use of the carpenter’s-rule: together with the use of the line of numbers commonly call’d Gunter’s-Line. London: Richard Mount, 1704, 12mo, one plate, contemporary sheep, (bought from E.M. Lawson, East Hagbourne, 1993, Catalogue 263, item 69), [T&W B273; ESTC T110704 (3 copies); Harris 63; Hoock & Jeannin II/B43.7; cf. Instruments in print 21 (1662 edition)], rebackediii. Darling, John. The carpenters rule made easie: or, the art of measuring supeficies and solids (issued with: Lands, Heber. A short treatise of practical gauging), London: J. How for G. Sawbridge, 1709, seventh edition, 12mo, later half morocco, (bookplate of Robert Carl Sticht (1856-1922), metallurgist resident in Tasmania; bought from Rogers Turner, 1999), [T&W D9, L24; ESTC T200833, N36838; Harris 182; Goldsmiths’ 4533.1; Hoock & Jeannin II/D7.6 and II/L9.3]iv. Good, John (active 1706-1733). Measuring made easy: or the description and use of Coggeshall’s sliding-rule. London: Thomas Page, William and Fisher Mount, 1726, 8vo, (bought from Michael Phelps, 1990), [T&W G61; ESTC T174756 (1 copy); Harris 266; this edition not in Adams, Mount & Page], contemporary calf, rebacked v. Coggeshall, Henry (1623-1690). The art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule. London: John Oswald, 1745, sixth edition, 8vo, 4 folding engraved plates, contemporary sheep, [T&W C109; ESTC N32080; Harris 146], (bought from Newby, 1994), binding rubbed

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