MEREDITH, THE DESCRIPTION AND USES OF POCKET CASES OF MATHEMATICAL OR DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, LONDON, [1791]

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (208 x 122mm.), 3 engraved plates, one folding, one full-page and one a slip, old boards, smallest and largest plate cropped, binding somewhat rubbed, neatly rebacked

Luzac & Co., London, bookseller's label; bought from B. & L. Rootenberg Rare Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, 1997

Tomash & Williams M89; ESTC T111113 (4 copies)

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Another edition, or issue, of this work was published in 1791, sold by John Field (ESTC T111112). Neither is given precedence by ESTC. Both are rare and are unrecorded at auction in over forty years.