Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
COLLINS, JOHN. The Sector on a Quadrant; or, A Treatise containing the Description and Use of Four Several Quadrants . . . Of great use to Seamen and Practitioners in the Mathematicks. 6 leaves of engraved illustrations of quadrants and scales by Henry Sutton; woodcut text diagrams throughout. [16], 284; [2], 54, [8]; [2], 26 pages. 4to, 181x137 mm, contemporary sheep, spine heavily worn and chipped, front joint cracked and bonded; intermittent marginal dampstaining, most conspicuous on opening leaves, including the first 2 engravings. London: J. M. for George Hurlock et al., 1659

Additional Details

first edition; second issue, with cancel title dated 1659. Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners (Tudor), pages 228 and 364; Wing C5382; ESTC R32501.