Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Moxon, Joseph (1627-1691)
Mathematicks Made Easie: or, a Mathematical Dictionary.

London: Printed for J. Moxon, at the Sign of Atlas, in Warwick Lane, 1692.

Octavo, engraved frontispiece portrait opposite title, illustrated with four engraved plates bound after text and a few woodcut text illustrations, bound in full contemporary speckled English sheep, somewhat bumped and worn, unsophisticated, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. [together with] John Ward's (active 1698-1709) The Young Mathematician's Guide, London: Printed by Tho. Horne, J. Woodward, and A. Bettesworth, 1713, octavo, portrait frontispiece of author opposite title, text diagrams, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, joints splitting, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.; [and] Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi's (1804-1851) Fundamenta Nova Theoriae Functionum Ellipticarum, Regiomonti: Borntraeger, 1829, large quarto, folding chart, bound in contemporary half cloth, foxing and water stains to title, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (3)

Moxon: Wing M-3007; ESTC R10338. Ward: ESTC T132407.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.