拍品 686
  • 686

WARD, THE YOUNG MATHEMATICIAN'S GUIDE, LONDON, 1707, CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO GILT

估價
500 - 700 GBP
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描述

  • The young mathematician’s guide. London: Edward Midwinter for John Taylor, 1707
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (202 x 116mm.), engraved portrait, contemporary black morocco, ornately panelled in gilt, gilt edges, binding sympathetically rebacked, corners bumped, very slightly rubbed

來源

"Ellerker Bradshaw Esquire of Risby in the East Riding of the County of York", bookplate; John Linn, signature on title; bought from The Antiquarian Scientist, Acton MA, 2001

出版

Tomash & Williams W12; ESTC T69160; Benjamin Wardhaugh, "Consuming Mathematics: John Ward's Young Mathematician's Guide (1707) and Its Owners" in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38 (March 2015), pp.65-82

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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拍品資料及來源

One of the most popular mathematical textbooks in Georgian England, and used at both Harvard and Yale. This is probably a presentation copy from the author: it bears the inscription "Ellerker Bradshaw. Ex dono spectatissimi amici 1707" (the date of publication).