拍品 456
  • 456

[NAPIER], ENNEADES ARITHMETICAE, LONDON, MOXON, 1684, BOUND WITH 4 OTHER WORKS, MACCLESFIELD COPY

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描述

  • Enneades arithmeticae: the numbring nines. or, Pythagoras his table extended to all whole numbers under 10000. And the numbering rods of... John Lord Nepeer, enlarged with 9999 fixt columns or rods, [etc.]. London: for J. Moxon... Where also these Numbring Rods, (commonly call'd Napiers Bones) are made and sold, 1684, 2 folding engraved tables, [T&W Add35; ESTC R5645; Wing P4319 (and E3128)], a few leaves shaved, plates cropped
Gemma Frisius (1508-1555). Arithmeticae practicae methodus facilis... emendata, &... aucta. Huc accesserunt J. Peletarij annotationes: eiusdem item de fractionibus astronomicis compendium, [etc.]. Cologne: M. Cholinus, 1571, [T&W G36; Hoogendoorn p.363 GemF04; USTC 613040; Van Ortroy, Gemma Frisius 89; VD16 G1127] [Mabbut, George] Tables for renewing & purchasing of the leases of cathedral-churches and colleges, according to several rates of interest... Also tables for renewing and purchasing of lives, [etc.]. Cambridge: J. Hayes, 1686, FIRST EDITION, [T&W M2; ESTC R41187; Wing M113 (formerly N1050); Goldsmiths' 2633; Kress 1644], a few headlines and last leaf shaved Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob (1672-1733). Praelectio de matheseos usu in theologia. Amsterdam: R. & G. Wetstein, 1712, catalogue of Scheuchzer's writings at pp.37-45, [T&W Add39; STCN 256531528 (Utrecht, UB only)] Lightbody, James. The new art of gauging and measuring without inches or division, [etc.]. London: J. Morphew and R. Mount, 1713, woodcut diagrams, [[T&W L113; ESTC T128126 (2 copies)] 5 works in one volume (Enneades arithmeticae bound second), 8vo (145 x 85mm.), eighteenth-century English sprinkled calf, original red morocco label ("Arithmeti &c."), rebacked

來源

Earls of Macclesfield, bookplate, sale in these rooms 10 June 2004, lot 197, Erwin Tomash

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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拍品資料及來源

Three copies of Napier's Enneades arithmeticae are recorded by ESTC, located in the
British Library, National Library of Scotland, and Clark Library / UCLA. The
Honeyman copy (lot 2293, sold to Quaritch) is the one now in the National Library of
Scotland, RB.s.924 (Annual Report, 1980, p.21)