Apr 03, 2014 - Sale 2343
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Sale 2343 - Lot 116

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LEYBOURN, WILLIAM. Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 44 plates, most folding. [16], 360, [2], 355-440 pages, 441-526 leaves, [2], 547-652 pages, 653-694, [1], 698-724 leaves, [2], 731-904, [92] pages. Folio, 325x199 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, hinges reinforced; occasional faint marginal dampstaining. 18th(?)-century stamp and signature of George Fleming. London: Thomas Basset et al., 1690
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first edition of a textbook of arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, astronomy, navigation, and trigonometry, with a discussion of the use of instruments. Pages 179-90 deal with calculation by means of Napier's rods (or bones), a forerunner of the slide rule, shown in the plate facing page 202. Houzeau & Lancaster 9333; Taylor (Tudor & Stuart), pages 230-31 and 406; Wing L1911.