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	BROWN (JOHN): Arithmetica Infinita Or The Accurate Accomptant's Best Companion Contriver and Calculated. [Edinburgh]: Printed for the Author, 1718. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 16mo, pp. [iv], 126, 10, engraved throughout, except for the second leaf, the letter from John Keill, which is letterpress, later 18th century sheepskin; no portrait, spine a little defective, and front joint slightly cracked. ESTC calls for a portrait, but only the BL copy seems to have one. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 301.75 US$ 454.85 \| JP¥ 39129] Book number: 3750 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	DAVIES (CHARLES): A Treatise on Shades and Shadows, and Linear Perspective. Second Edition. New York, Wiley & Putnam, Collins, Keese, & Co...., 1838. Tall 8vo, pp. 159 [160 blank], 22 folding engraved plates, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed); occasional foxing of text and plates, front joint cracked and tender, rear joint very slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the contemporary autograph "George Stark/ Piscataguog (?) Villa/ Bedford N. H." on the recto of the front free end-paper. Davies' work was first published in 1832. He was Professor of Mathematics at West Point Military Academy. When the first edition was published, the reviewer in The New England Magazine for May 1832, observed, "No man should presume to criticise even a painting or engraving unless he has studied perspective.... Mr. Davies's book...is the best of its kind, yet published, and the demonstrations are as plain and concise, almost, as the subject will admit." GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 3949 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	EMERSON (WILLIAM): The Arithmetic of Infinites, and the Differential Method; Illustrated by Examples. London: Printed for J. Nourse..., 1767. FIRST EDITION, second issue. 8vo, pp. 4, 44, [2], ii, 225 {226 blank], iv, 115 [116 Contents, 117 Errata, 118 blank, 119-120 adverts], 49 folding engraved plates, Z3 signed Y3, contemporary quarter calf, continental marbled boards (slightly rubbed and worn); spine dried, lacks label, top and base of spine chipped. William Emerson (1701 - 1782) was one of those "natural" mathematicians to whom complex equations and algorithms, as well as music theory, were child's play, so much so that his textbooks proved to be somewhat truncated for his pupils' abilities. The first issue of this work is dated 1767. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 301.75 US$ 454.85 \| JP¥ 39129] Book number: 2649 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	FENNING (DANIEL): The Young Algebraist's Companion; Or, A New and Easy Guide to Algebra; Introduced by the Doctrine of Vulgar Fractions. Designed for the use of Schools.... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. To which is added, An Appendix, On the Rudiments of Quadratic Equa London: Printed for J. Robinson...[et al], 1772. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xii, 240, contemporary sheepskin; lightly browned throughout, spine and hinges vandalized with tape, ex-library, with institutional label on front paste-down end-paper and paper shelf label on spine. The first edition of this work, with a list of subscribers, appeared in 1750; the Appendix on quadratic equations first appeared in the third edition of 1759. ESTC T133072 locates copies in LCue, LEu, LVu O, Ob. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 71.5 US$ 107.51 \| JP¥ 9249] Book number: 4998 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	HAWNEY (WILLIAM): The Complete Measurer; Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. In Two Parts. The First Part teaching Decimal Arithmetic, with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. And Also the Multiplication of Feet and Inches.... The Second Part teaching to Measure all London: Printed for R. Ware., J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman...[et al], 1748. 12mo (in 6s), pp. ix [x - xii Contents], 346 [347 - 348 adverts], illustrations in text, contemporary sheepskin (slightly worn); front cover detached, rear joint cracked. The first edition of this work traced in ESTC on-line was published in 1717, followed by a second edition in 1721 and a third in 1729; thereafter, fourth, fifth, and sixth editions proliferate, both in Britain and Ireland. ESTC records 23 editions published in the 18th century and locates three copies of the above edition, the British Library and Reading University Library in the UK and Texas University Library in the United States. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 1406 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	HUTTON (CHARLES): Mathematical Tables: Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms, and Sines, Tangents, Secants, and Versed Sines, both Natural and Logarithmic. Together with Several Other Tables useful in Mathematical Calculations. Also the Complete Des London: Longman, Brown, and Co...., 1846. Tall 8vo, pp. lxviii, 368, contemporary sheepskin, with initials G. Traherne on front cover and his autograph and calligraphic inscription on front free end-paper and computations on rear end-papers; binding a little worn and wormed. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.5 US$ 90.97 \| JP¥ 7826] Book number: 3743 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	LUDLAM (WILLIAM): Mathematical Essays. The Second Edition, with Additions. Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon...For J. & J. Merrill..., 1787. 8vo, 202 x 126 mms., pp. [ii], 97 [98 blank], 3 folding engraved plates at end, modern floral motif wrappers. A very good copy. The theologian and mathematician William Ludlam (1717 - 1788) achieved some distinction with his skills in mathematics, astronomy, and practical mechanics. The two essays on ultimate ratios and the power of the wedge were first published in 1770, and that on Newton's second law of motion in 1780. An essay on the properties of the cycloid and on one of the propositions in Newton's Principia are new to this edition. ESTC T125052 locates 14 copies in UK libraries; and American Philosophical Society, Harvard, Library Company of Philadelphia, Stanford, LC in the USA, as well as one at Monash. OCLC adds Cornell. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 6639 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MACGREGOR (JOHN): A Complete Treatise on Practical Mathematics: Including the Nature and Use of Mathematical Instruments: Logarithmic Tables. Trigonometry. Mensuration of Heights and Distances; Of Surfaces & Solids. Land-Surveying. Gunnery. Gauging. Artificer's Measuring. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute, and G. G. J & J. Robinson, London, 1792. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii,64, [1], 58-117, [4], 114-431 [432 blank], 9 (ex 10?) folding engraved plates at end, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; first few pages very soiled, rest of text, rest of text occasionally finger, folding plates creased and worn, binding a bit rubbed and worn, an insalubrious copy. ESTC T90812 locates copies in the BL, NLS, Cambridge, Bodleian; and University of Waterloo Libraries, University of Michigan Libraries, Library Company of Philadelphia. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 5654 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MAYNARD (SAMUEL): A Key to Bonnycastle's Introduction to Mensuration; Containing the solution to all the questions in that work conformable to the present improved state of the science. With references to the problems, rules, and notes, by which the solutions are obtaine London: Printed for Longman and Co... [et al], 1837. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xii, 121 [122 blank, 123 adverts, 124 blank], contemporary sheepskin, recent leather reback. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 2134 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MAZEAS (J. M.): Elemens d'Arithmetique. d'Algebre, et de Geometrie, Avec une Introduction aux Sections coniques. Ouvrage utile pour fair entrer dans l'esprit de ces Sciences & pour disposer a l'etude de la Physique & des Sciences Physico-Mathematiques. Cinquieme Editi A Paris, Chez. Ph. D. Pierres..., 1774. 8vo, pp. xii, 530 [531 - 532 errata], 16 folding engraved plates at end, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, morocco label; plates a little frayed at edges and some worming of margins, slight water-staining of lower portion of first 20 leaves of text, corners worn, with lower front cover damaged. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 1770 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	PIKE (NICHOLAS): The New Complete System of Arithmetick, Composed for the Use of the Citizen of the United States. Abridged for the Use of Schools. Fifth Edition. Boston [Massachusetts]: Printed by J. T. Buckingham, For Thomas & Andrews, 1804. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [6] - 352, contemporary sheepskin; text fingered, soiled, and browned, binding rubbed and wormed on rear cover. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 2660 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	WARD (JOHN): The Posthumous Works of Mr. John Ward. .Published By a particular Friend of the Author from the original Manuscript, and revised by Mr. George Gordon. London, Printed for L. Hawes.., 1765. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 493 [494 blank], one folding plate with moveable cuts, contemporary sheepskin, rebacked, morocco label; ex-library with library stamps on title-page, and library sticker, 1807, of Mathematical Society, Spitalfields on front paste-down end-paper, corners worn, some other wear to binding. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 241.5 US$ 363.88 \| JP¥ 31303] Book number: 2909 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.

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	BROWN (JOHN): Arithmetica Infinita Or The Accurate Accomptant's Best Companion Contriver and Calculated. [Edinburgh]: Printed for the Author, 1718. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 16mo, pp. [iv], 126, 10, engraved throughout, except for the second leaf, the letter from John Keill, which is letterpress, later 18th century sheepskin; no portrait, spine a little defective, and front joint slightly cracked. ESTC calls for a portrait, but only the BL copy seems to have one. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 301.75 US$ 454.85 \| JP¥ 39129] Book number: 3750 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	DAVIES (CHARLES): A Treatise on Shades and Shadows, and Linear Perspective. Second Edition. New York, Wiley & Putnam, Collins, Keese, & Co...., 1838. Tall 8vo, pp. 159 [160 blank], 22 folding engraved plates, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed); occasional foxing of text and plates, front joint cracked and tender, rear joint very slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped. With the contemporary autograph "George Stark/ Piscataguog (?) Villa/ Bedford N. H." on the recto of the front free end-paper. Davies' work was first published in 1832. He was Professor of Mathematics at West Point Military Academy. When the first edition was published, the reviewer in The New England Magazine for May 1832, observed, "No man should presume to criticise even a painting or engraving unless he has studied perspective.... Mr. Davies's book...is the best of its kind, yet published, and the demonstrations are as plain and concise, almost, as the subject will admit." GBP 385.00 [Appr.: EURO 422.5 US$ 636.79 \| JP¥ 54780] Book number: 3949 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	EMERSON (WILLIAM): The Arithmetic of Infinites, and the Differential Method; Illustrated by Examples. London: Printed for J. Nourse..., 1767. FIRST EDITION, second issue. 8vo, pp. 4, 44, [2], ii, 225 {226 blank], iv, 115 [116 Contents, 117 Errata, 118 blank, 119-120 adverts], 49 folding engraved plates, Z3 signed Y3, contemporary quarter calf, continental marbled boards (slightly rubbed and worn); spine dried, lacks label, top and base of spine chipped. William Emerson (1701 - 1782) was one of those "natural" mathematicians to whom complex equations and algorithms, as well as music theory, were child's play, so much so that his textbooks proved to be somewhat truncated for his pupils' abilities. The first issue of this work is dated 1767. GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 301.75 US$ 454.85 \| JP¥ 39129] Book number: 2649 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	FENNING (DANIEL): The Young Algebraist's Companion; Or, A New and Easy Guide to Algebra; Introduced by the Doctrine of Vulgar Fractions. Designed for the use of Schools.... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. To which is added, An Appendix, On the Rudiments of Quadratic Equa London: Printed for J. Robinson...[et al], 1772. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xii, 240, contemporary sheepskin; lightly browned throughout, spine and hinges vandalized with tape, ex-library, with institutional label on front paste-down end-paper and paper shelf label on spine. The first edition of this work, with a list of subscribers, appeared in 1750; the Appendix on quadratic equations first appeared in the third edition of 1759. ESTC T133072 locates copies in LCue, LEu, LVu O, Ob. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 71.5 US$ 107.51 \| JP¥ 9249] Book number: 4998 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	HAWNEY (WILLIAM): The Complete Measurer; Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. In Two Parts. The First Part teaching Decimal Arithmetic, with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. And Also the Multiplication of Feet and Inches.... The Second Part teaching to Measure all London: Printed for R. Ware., J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman...[et al], 1748. 12mo (in 6s), pp. ix [x - xii Contents], 346 [347 - 348 adverts], illustrations in text, contemporary sheepskin (slightly worn); front cover detached, rear joint cracked. The first edition of this work traced in ESTC on-line was published in 1717, followed by a second edition in 1721 and a third in 1729; thereafter, fourth, fifth, and sixth editions proliferate, both in Britain and Ireland. ESTC records 23 editions published in the 18th century and locates three copies of the above edition, the British Library and Reading University Library in the UK and Texas University Library in the United States. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 1406 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	HUTTON (CHARLES): Mathematical Tables: Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms, and Sines, Tangents, Secants, and Versed Sines, both Natural and Logarithmic. Together with Several Other Tables useful in Mathematical Calculations. Also the Complete Des London: Longman, Brown, and Co...., 1846. Tall 8vo, pp. lxviii, 368, contemporary sheepskin, with initials G. Traherne on front cover and his autograph and calligraphic inscription on front free end-paper and computations on rear end-papers; binding a little worn and wormed. GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.5 US$ 90.97 \| JP¥ 7826] Book number: 3743 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	LUDLAM (WILLIAM): Mathematical Essays. The Second Edition, with Additions. Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon...For J. & J. Merrill..., 1787. 8vo, 202 x 126 mms., pp. [ii], 97 [98 blank], 3 folding engraved plates at end, modern floral motif wrappers. A very good copy. The theologian and mathematician William Ludlam (1717 - 1788) achieved some distinction with his skills in mathematics, astronomy, and practical mechanics. The two essays on ultimate ratios and the power of the wedge were first published in 1770, and that on Newton's second law of motion in 1780. An essay on the properties of the cycloid and on one of the propositions in Newton's Principia are new to this edition. ESTC T125052 locates 14 copies in UK libraries; and American Philosophical Society, Harvard, Library Company of Philadelphia, Stanford, LC in the USA, as well as one at Monash. OCLC adds Cornell. GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 181.25 US$ 272.91 \| JP¥ 23477] Book number: 6639 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MACGREGOR (JOHN): A Complete Treatise on Practical Mathematics: Including the Nature and Use of Mathematical Instruments: Logarithmic Tables. Trigonometry. Mensuration of Heights and Distances; Of Surfaces & Solids. Land-Surveying. Gunnery. Gauging. Artificer's Measuring. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute, and G. G. J & J. Robinson, London, 1792. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii,64, [1], 58-117, [4], 114-431 [432 blank], 9 (ex 10?) folding engraved plates at end, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; first few pages very soiled, rest of text, rest of text occasionally finger, folding plates creased and worn, binding a bit rubbed and worn, an insalubrious copy. ESTC T90812 locates copies in the BL, NLS, Cambridge, Bodleian; and University of Waterloo Libraries, University of Michigan Libraries, Library Company of Philadelphia. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 5654 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MAYNARD (SAMUEL): A Key to Bonnycastle's Introduction to Mensuration; Containing the solution to all the questions in that work conformable to the present improved state of the science. With references to the problems, rules, and notes, by which the solutions are obtaine London: Printed for Longman and Co... [et al], 1837. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xii, 121 [122 blank, 123 adverts, 124 blank], contemporary sheepskin, recent leather reback. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 2134 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	MAZEAS (J. M.): Elemens d'Arithmetique. d'Algebre, et de Geometrie, Avec une Introduction aux Sections coniques. Ouvrage utile pour fair entrer dans l'esprit de ces Sciences & pour disposer a l'etude de la Physique & des Sciences Physico-Mathematiques. Cinquieme Editi A Paris, Chez. Ph. D. Pierres..., 1774. 8vo, pp. xii, 530 [531 - 532 errata], 16 folding engraved plates at end, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, morocco label; plates a little frayed at edges and some worming of margins, slight water-staining of lower portion of first 20 leaves of text, corners worn, with lower front cover damaged. GBP 110.00 [Appr.: EURO 120.75 US$ 181.94 \| JP¥ 15652] Book number: 1770 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	PIKE (NICHOLAS): The New Complete System of Arithmetick, Composed for the Use of the Citizen of the United States. Abridged for the Use of Schools. Fifth Edition. Boston [Massachusetts]: Printed by J. T. Buckingham, For Thomas & Andrews, 1804. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [6] - 352, contemporary sheepskin; text fingered, soiled, and browned, binding rubbed and wormed on rear cover. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 US$ 140.59 \| JP¥ 12094] Book number: 2660 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.
	WARD (JOHN): The Posthumous Works of Mr. John Ward. .Published By a particular Friend of the Author from the original Manuscript, and revised by Mr. George Gordon. London, Printed for L. Hawes.., 1765. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 493 [494 blank], one folding plate with moveable cuts, contemporary sheepskin, rebacked, morocco label; ex-library with library stamps on title-page, and library sticker, 1807, of Mathematical Society, Spitalfields on front paste-down end-paper, corners worn, some other wear to binding. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 241.5 US$ 363.88 \| JP¥ 31303] Book number: 2909 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books.