Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 298

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LEYBOURN, WILLIAM. Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 40 (of 44) plates, most folding. [16], 360, [2], 355-440 pages, 441-526 leaves, [2], 547-652 pages, 653-694, [1], 698-724 leaves, [2], 731-904, [92] pages. Folio, 323x195 mm, modern leather; contents browned, corrections and annotations in ink in early hand, 2 of the missing plates supplied in early pen-and-ink facsimile, approximately the last 20 leaves gnawed in upper outer corners with varying text loss. Harvard College Library stamp on title (released). London: Thomas Basset et al., 1690

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first edition of a textbook of arithmetic, geometry, cosmography, astronomy, navigation, and trigonometry, with a discussion of the use of instruments. Houzeau & Lancaster 9333; Taylor (Tudor & Stuart), pages 230-31 and 406; Wing L1911.