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NAPIER, A COLLECTION OF 7 VOLUMES

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500 - 800 GBP
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描述

  • A collection of 7 volumes about Napier's logarithms, comprising:
i. Hobson, Ernest William. John Napier and the Invention of Logarithms, 1614. Cambridge: University Press, 1914, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, (George A. Gibson, signature), [T&W H142]ii. Knott, Cargill Gilston, ed. Napier Tercentary Memorial Volume. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1915, 4to, original cream cloth gilt, [T&W K56]iii. Napier, Mark. Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1834, 4to, brown quarter morocco, blindstamped terracotta boards, (William Stirling, bookplate), [T&W N16], occasional spotting [bound with] Napier, Mark. "On the progress and prospects of science in Scotland at the close of the sixteenth and commencment of the seventeenth centuries, as compared with the same at Cambridge a century later", communicated to the Historical Section at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute in Edinburgh, July 25, 1856, 8vo, 42pp., [T&W N17] iv. Napier, John and William Rae Macdonald. The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms ... with notes and a catalogue of the various editions of Napier's works. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1889, 4to, quarter vellum, maroon boards, with smaller facsimile of "A description of the admirable table of logarithms..., 1618" loosely inserted,  (Kenneth Garth Huston, bookplate; bought from Jeremy Norman, 1989), [T&W N13]v. Napier, John. De arte logistica Joannis Naperi merchistonii baronis libri qui supersunt. Edinburgh: (Ballantyne and Hughes), 1839, 4to, old boards, [T&W N14bis], rebacked with calf spine, portrait becoming detached vi. Napier, John. De arte logistica Joannis Naperi merchistonii baronis libri qui supersunt. Edinburgh: (Ballantyne and Hughes), 1839, 4to, old marbled boards, (PRESENTATION COPY: "To William Stirling [Maxwell] Esq. of Keir with the editor's best regards", inscription on front flyleaf), [T&W N14], spotting, rebacked with green morocco retaining original spine, slightly wornvii. Ocagne, Philbert Maurice d'. "Some remarks on logarithms apropos to their tercentenary" in Annual Report Smithsonian Institution, 1914, pp.175-181, 8vo, blue wrappers, [not in T&W]

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