Lot 295
  • 295

HUTTON, 2 VOLUMES

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700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Two volumes, comprising:
i. Tables of the products and powers of numbers. London: Commissioners of Longitude, 1781, folio, contemporary calf, (ownership inscription of James Harrison; bookplates of Richard Sutton and Anthony R. Michaelis, 1916-2008), [T&W Ad27; ESTC T53102], joints worn ii. Mathematical tables: containing common, hyperbolic, and logistic logarithms. London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson and R. Baldwin, 1785, 8vo, contemporary calf, (ownership inscriptions of Thomas Wright Hill (1763-1951), mathematician and schoolmaster and Sir Roland Hill (1795-1879); bought from Pickering & Chatto, 1991), [T&W H193; ESTC T53067; Henderson pp.87-89, 168, 179 no. 88.0], rebacked

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Hutton’s Mathematical tables, here in first edition, is dedicated to Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal. Included in the introduction are a history of trigonometrical tables and of logarithms, an essay on the construction of logarithms, and "Description and Use of Logarithmic Tables".