Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MANUSCRIPT.) Mathematics [spine title]. illustrated manuscript in english on paper with multiple watermarks, including that of Floyd & Co. dated 1800, written in disciplined cursive hand in brownish black ink with numerous pen-and-ink diagrams in the text. 288 pages, ruled in red throughout. 290x230 mm, contemporary tree calf gilt with royal arms of the United Kingdom on covers, top of spine worn, joints partly cracked, binding still sound; contents generally clean. Modern bookplates of Newton H. Shaffer and Robert William Morgan. Great Britain, circa 1802

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Proficiently executed academic copybook including sections on the definitions and principles of arithmetic, fractions, square and cube roots, logarithms, geometry, and plane trigonometry, with profuse examples of the topics covered. The manuscript is signed Thos. Collingwood on page 64, and his name appears on a lettering piece dated 1802 at the foot of the spine.