Lot 52
  • 52

BARTON, ARITHMETICKE ABREVIATED, LONDON, 1634, MODERN HALF MOROCCO

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Arithmeticke abbreviated. Teaching the art of tennes or decimals to worke all questions in fractions as whole numbers, without reduction... Shewing the use also of Napiers bones. London: [John Beale] for James Boler and William Luggard, 1634
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (140 x 85mm.), woodcut vignette on title, diagrams and tables in text, errata leaf at end, modern half morocco, minor repair to title (with a few letters reinstated in pen and ink) and C3

Provenance

Illinois Institute of Technology, sold Christie's New York, 25 February 2003, lot 19; bought from Martayan Lan, New York, 2003

Literature

Tomash & Williams B111; ESTC S104508; STC 1541

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Catalogue Note

RARE. This is the only copy recorded at auction in over 40 years. It is one of the earliest works to explain the use of Napier's rods as a method for facilitating multiplication, division and extraction of roots.