COWLEY JOHN LODGE An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid 176

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COWLEY, JOHN LODGE. An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid. 42 engraved plates intended to be cut and folded into geometric solids. [4], 14 pages. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 calf, rebacked; contents clean, plates 1-5, 7, 16, and 18 lack folding parts, some of the remaining plates partly cut but intact, with unobtrusive minor tape reinforcement on verso. London: T. Cadell, [1765?]

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Second edition of a 1758 textbook of solid geometry employing plates with folding parts to facilitate the study of polyhedra. Cowley taught at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners (Hanoverian), page 460.