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The Erwin Tomash Library On The History Of Computing
18 September 2018 • London
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Sale Number: L18409
942 lots
450. A description of the admirable table of logarithmes... translated into English by the late learned and famous mathematician, Edward Wright. With an addition of the Instrumentall Table to find the part proportionall... by Henrie Brigs... Whereunto is added new rules for the ease of the student. London: Simon Waterson, 1618
Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP
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451. Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio... una cum appendice... quibus accessere propositiones ad triangula sphaerica faciliore calculo resolvenda, [etc.]. Edinburgh: Andrew Hart, 1619, woodcut additional title, [Henderson pp.28-29 no. 5.0; Macdonald pp.140-141; STC 18350], some damp-staining, additional title slightly cropped at head
Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
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452. Logarithmorum canonis descriptio... Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio... Lyon: Barthélemy Vincent, 1620
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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453. Logarithmorum canonis descriptio... Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio... Lyon: Barthélemy Vincent, 1620
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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454. Rabdologiae seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo. Leiden: PieterRammazeyn, 1626
Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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455. Rabdologiae seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo: cum appendice de expeditissimo multiplicationis promptuario. Quibus accessit & arithmeticae localis liber unus. Leiden: Pieter Rammazeyn, 1628
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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456. Enneades arithmeticae: the numbring nines. or, Pythagoras his table extended to all whole numbers under 10000. And the numbering rods of... John Lord Nepeer, enlarged with 9999 fixt columns or rods, [etc.]. London: for J. Moxon... Where also these Numbring Rods, (commonly call'd Napiers Bones) are made and sold, 1684, 2 folding engraved tables, [T&W Add35; ESTC R5645; Wing P4319 (and E3128)], a few leaves shaved, plates cropped
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP
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457. Baguettes de Nepper, auteur du tables des Logarithmes
Estimate: 200 – 300 GBP
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458. Manuscript instructional manual, in German, concerning the use of Napier's bones
Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
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459. A collection of 7 volumes about Napier's logarithms, comprising:
Estimate: 500 – 800 GBP
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460. The art of sailing by the logarithms, or artificial sines and tangents. Being the most exact way of working all sort of traverses, and keeping a reckoning at sea... Being the second part of the whole art of navigation (A triangular canon logarithmical...). London: for Richard Mount, 1701
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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461. Arithmetica universalis. Cambridge: typis academicis; London: for B. Tooke, 1707
Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
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