Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305
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Sale 2305 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 2,500
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
NAPIER, JOHN. Logarithmorum canonis descriptio [with Tabula canonis logarithmorum and Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio]. [8], 56; [92]; 62, [2] pages. 3 volumes in one. 8vo, later 19th-century 1/4 vellum; contents heavily browned with occasional marginal dampstaining and minor worming in blank upper outer corners toward end. Lyon: Barthélemy Vincent, 1620
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first lyon edition of Napier's 1614 description and canon of logarithms and posthumous 1619 treatise on their construction; second issue, with first title dated 1620 instead of 1619. Honeyman Sale 2292 (this edition); Grolier/Horblit 77a-b; Printing and the Mind of Man 116 (original editions).