Dec 02, 2004 - Sale 2025

Sale 2025 - Lot 469

Price Realized: $ 2,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MORLAND, SAMUEL. The description and use of two arithmetick instruments. Together with a Short Treatise, explaining and demonstrating the Ordinary Operations of Arithmetick. As likewise, A Perpetual Almanack. 10 full-page engraved illustrations of Morland's instruments (the first 6 printed on the page, the last 4 mounted on the page); 13 full-page engraved tables and diagrams; 2 inserted engraved tables, the second folding. [2], 6, [1], 9-10 leaves, 11-78 [i. e., 82], [2], 14, [14], [16], 16 pages. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, spine missing portion at top, front cover detached, opening leaves loose; institutional stamp on general title verso, ink accession number on facing page divisional title, entire outer margin off A4 slightly affecting text on recto but not illustration on verso. London: Moses Pitt, 1673

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