STIRRUP, THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE UNIVERSALL QUADRAT (SIC), LONDON, 1655

FIRST EDITION, 4to (176 x 132mm.), title within typographic border, 3 engraved plates, one folding, woodcut diagrams, contemporary calf, lacking π1 (half-title) and A4 (blank?), occasional minor staining, binding rebacked, corners restored, new endpapers

bought from E.M. Lawson & Company, East Hagbourne, 1980

Tomash & Williams S192; ESTC R207671; Wing S5687

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Rare at auction with just two copies recorded in forty years (the Honeyman copy and another, very imperfect). The British Library copy (E.823.8.) likewise has no half-title and A4 is cancelled