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Leybourn, William (1626-1716) Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in Nine Books.
London: Printed for Thomas Basset, Benjamin Tooke, Thomas Sawbridge, Awnsham & John Churchill, 1690.
First edition, folio, title page printed in red and black, engraved author frontispiece facing title; illustrated with 44 engravings [of which 3 are folding in this copy, the plates with blank conjugates meant to create a spacer thereby throwing the image out beyond the fore-edge of the book were instead folded in half and bound with the blank preceding the plate]; bound in slightly later speckled calf, (joints cracking, new endpapers); ex libris language educator and entrepreneur James Hamilton (1769-1831), with his signature on the title page; 12 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
ESTC R2239; Wing L-1911.
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
