(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) [Greenwood Isaac] Arithmetick Vulga

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) [Greenwood, Isaac.] Arithmetick Vulgar and Decimal; with the Application . . . in Trade, and Commerce. [6], 158 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; hinges split, aggressively cropped with some text loss, particularly in the early pages, a few early annotations, leaf N1 defective, lacking final 2 leaves (table of contents). Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1729

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The first mathematics textbook by an American published in America. Greenwood had recently been appointed as the first occupant of Harvard's Hollis Chair of Mathematics, serving until his dismissal for excessive drinking in 1737. Evans 3170; Karpinski, page 43; Sabin 28689n.