Lot 308
  • 308

Wallis, John

Estimate
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Description

  • Cono-Cuneus: or, the Shipwright's Circular Wedge. That is, A Body resembling in part a Conus, in part a Cuneux, Geometrically considered. London: printed by John Playford for Richard Davis, 1684
  • Paper, Ink, Leather
Folio (12 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 320 x 195 mm). 7 folding plates; unbound, some foxing (more important on B1). Green-cloth portfolio. 

Literature

Wing W565

Catalogue Note

First edition of the famous mathematician work on shipwrights. 
This study was published later in Treatise of Algebra, 1685.