OUGHTRED, TRIGONOMETRIE, LONDON, 1657

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 3 parts in one, 4to (174 x 127mm.), engraved portrait (A1v), engraved and woodcut diagrams, errata leaf at end, contemporary calf, first part somewhat soiled, other parts damp-stained, cropped at foot at beginning with some loss (and also p.77 part 2), p.7-8 torn with loss of a few words, part 2 slightly wormed at centre of page, lacks final leaf (presumably blank), binding rubbed, rebacked

Godfrey Rooes (?Rools), signature on title (slightly cropped); "George Dicken his book 1772", inscription on endleaf and further inscribed by him ("Dickins") on verso of divisional title to part 3, dated 1775; Harrison D. Horblit (1912-1988), book label; H.P. Kraus, New York, Catalogue 169, item 112, $680; bought from Kraus, 1990

Tomash & Williams O56; ESTC R24021; Wing O590

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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This is a translation of Oughtred's Trigonometria (see lot 481), which was published in Latin a few months earlier in the same year. It is issued with Canones sinuum, tangentium, secantium: et logarithmorum pro sinubus et tangentibus (London: Joseph Moxon for Thomas Johnson, 1657), which is in 2 parts. The second part of which has been inscribed on the verso of its title "From Numbers Aid and Art / Never will the same depart", probably by its former owner Dicken (or Dickins).