Author: FERGUSON, J.J.
Title: Tafelen van 't geene elck ende yegelijck van de Seven Vereenighde Provincien in een voor-gegeven Somme moet contribueren; Midtsgaders een seer lichte maniere om het selve sonder behulp van tafelen te calculeren. Als mede Eenige Exempelen dienende tot elucidatie van 't geene voorschreven staet.
Description: 's Graven-hage, By Jacobus Scheltus, 's Landts Drucker, 1675. 4to. 2 parts in 1 vol. W. woodc. vign. on printed title. Superb contemp. vellum, thong laced w. original green silken ties / ribbons preserved. [A-O4 (O4 blank); A-H4 (H4 blank)]. (109, III (Blank); 61, III (Blank) pp.). (first 4 lvs. a smal vague watersp. to upper righthand blank margin, unimportant; fine fresh and clean copy.). First edition, later variant. Printed title reset, using, a.o., a much larger pointsize for the 'Eenige Exempelen..' line. Furthermore correcting the 'Mitsgaders' into 'Midtsgaders'; idem 'Manniere' into 'Maniere'; Most printing errors corrected. Leaf D2 signed correctly. In the true first edition all mistakes corrected in ink by the author himself. Not in Kress: Not in Fundaburk: BdH, 1396 & 1397 [appendix]: Econ. Hist. Bibl. 181: First and only edition. Contains tables for calculating the height of contributions to be made by the Seven Provinces to the States General, accompanied by a number of examples. On the Scheltus printer's family, 'Landsdrukkers', printers to the Court of Holland, States General and the Prince of Orange, see Kossmann, Boekhandel in Den Haag, pp. 340 -346: The author of the book Johan Jacob Ferguson [see van der Aa F, p. 22] was known as an excellent mathematician, publishing his 'Labyrinthius Algebrae' with Jacobus Scheltus in 1667.

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