Price: £1,200
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1798
Stock Number: 62694
(Your basket is currently empty)containing Essays, Problems, Solutions, Theorems, &c. selected from an extensive correspondence.
Description: with 13 engraved plates, one catchword trimmed, minor browning and staining, pp. iv, [5-] 228, bound with other items (see below), 4to, modern brown morocco backed marbled boards, ownership inscription on preserved fly-leaf of Geo. Sherwin of Dale Abbey dated 1800Publication Details: Printed for Messrs. Whiting, Davis, Gale, Leybourn, and Kemmish; And sold by T.N. Longman, 1798
Notes: This volume is a bit of a puzzle. ESTC T110407 records Mathematical, Geometrical, and Philosophical Delights, puiblished in 11 parts 1792-98, with 13 plates preceded by a separate title-page dated 1797. Bound with the volume as described above (sans 1797 title-page) we have the parts issue, each numbered and consisting of 4 pp. - except part 11, where we have the title-page only, and a page of advertisement referring to No. 16 of the Scientific Receptacle (a stable-mate). These parts, a little soiled, and cut close, are evidently disbound from a calf-bound volume, and are in fact almost detach...more
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