A Treatise of Such Mathematical Instruments, As Are Usually Put into a Portable Case. Shewing Some Signs of Their Uses in Arithmetic, Geometry &c. With An Appendix; Containing The Description and Use of the Gunners Callipers &c.

ROBERTSON John.

Published by London: Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand,, 1775

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The third edition, with many additions. pp. xxiv,233,[3]. With three final pages of advertisments. With 12 folding copper plates, a number of which with creasing & some damp-staining, one with loss to outer margin, but no loss to engraved area. Contemporary full vellum, slighty bowed and marked, & lacking the marbled free-endpapers. However, a sound & presentable copy. [Poggendorff II, 663; Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica 14341; BMC 21, 790].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Treatise of Such Mathematical Instruments, As Are Usually Put into a Portable Case. Shewing Some Signs of Their Uses in Arithmetic, Geometry &c. With An Appendix; Containing The Description and Use of the Gunners Callipers &c.
• Publisher: London: Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand,
• Publication Date: 1775