Moore, Jonas, Sir (5 results)

In 1661 Jonas Moore the mathematician & surveyor was commisioned by the Earl of Bedford to survey the Manor of Woburn.The result was a large vellum map which was displayed in the estate's London office and a Survey Book [held in Bedfordshire Record Office] The undated work here is printed for private circulation and marked volume two. It comprises . Woburn Demesnes,Tenants for Lives,for Years,ditto at Will,Copy Holders Free Holders etc.Crown 8vo. 95pps Full Leather a.e.g.with marbled endpapers. A Fine Copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. later edition. Second edition 1660. 8vo. This edition scarcer on the market than the first. Full title : Moor's arithmetick in two books. The first treating of the vulgar arithmetick. The second of arithmetick in species or algebra. To which are added two treatises: 1. A new contemplation geometrical upon the. ellipsis. 2. The two first books of Mydorgius his conical sections, analized by. W. Oughtred, Englished and completed with cuts (A canon of the squares and cubes of all numbers under 1000.). London: J.G. for Nath. Brook, 1660This copy lacking the general title, portrait frontis and 2 folding plates. The text is otherwise complete and 5 folding engraved plates are present with one of them loose. The precise collation is :Three blanks to front and to rear, the first and last excised, the others all with extensive contemporary mathematical annotations in ink.Title ("Algebra Arithmetick")Title ("Contemplationes Geometrica")[iv] (Dedications)224pp; 95pp; 33pp; 39pp; 48ppOF the 5 folding plates two have fold tears without loss and all have minor ink annotations.Contemporary ink calculations to free endpapers (one at rear defective) and some to text, a little browned, some stains, a few marginal defects, contemporary calf, slightly worn and rubbed, but generally very good and all original.[Wing M2564].

Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover Book. Original or very early binding in full brown leather, with no title, and incised border lines to front and back covers. Title page, A3 (contents), 81pp, 15.5 x 10cm. The title page states: 'With a large map of the said Level, as Drained, Surveyed & Described by Sir Jonas Moore.' : note that this copy lacks this map. Otherwise a Good+ copy of a rare and very early book on the surveying and draining of the Fens, that appears to have belonged at a later date to Lord Milton of Peterborough, as a plain bookplate (Milton, Peterborough), is pasted inside the front cover (this partly obscures the Bookseller's text to the Reader which is printed on the front pastedown). The probable original owner's name is inscribed on the back of the title page: Geo. Underwood, 1699; he has also inscribed his name in the margins of three pages in 1699 and 1704, with a correction to the text possibly made by him on one of those pages. A later hand has added a note in pencil on title margin that the author was Samuel Fortrey, surveyor of the Middle Level. Other than this the text is generally clean, with the odd spot or brown mark; the binding is sound though stretched and the covers rubbed to edges and spine. Pictures available.

1st Edn, 124 + (4) pages, without 1/2 title, woodcut frontis plate, 7 folding plates + table plates + 4 pages on A Defination Of Gunsmithing showing figures with explanation, the plates show various figures depicting ammunition, carriages, the guns, loads, angles, barrells etc. bookplate of D.G.Mackenzie to front paste down, slip pasted to rear paste down noting the book was re-backed, re-labelled, fly leaves repaired by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in 1954. The treatise is divided into five parts: 1 Of Things General To All Artillery; 2 Of Forming the Bore Or Choke; 3 Of Carriages; 4 Of The Charge Of Powder And Shot; 5 Of Shooting In Great Artillery, a vg clean tight copy. Riling 181.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT'S COPY Practised and Designed by the Latest and most Experienced Ingeneers of this last Age, Italian, French, Dutch, and English. And the manner of Defending and Besieging Forts and Places. With the use of a Joynt-Ruler or Sector, for the speedy Description of any Fortification. By Sir Jonas Moore, Master Surveyor of His Majesties Ordnance. Engraved frontispiece and nine folding plates and tables in the text. First Edition. 8vo. [185 x 115 x 30 mm]. [8]ff, 127 pp. Bound in near contemporary calf, the covers tooled in blind with a double fillet border and a panel of a double fillet and zig-zag roll with a floral tool in the outer corners. The spine divided into five panels with raised bands, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others with gilt floral tools, the edges of the boards tooled with the zig-zag roll in gilt, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Worn, with patches of insect activity on the covers). In later red cloth chemise and and quarter red goatskin slipcase with cloth sides and spine lettered in gilt. [ebc8052] London: printed by W. Godbid, for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1673. Wing M.2576. ESTC locates eight copies in the UK and five in North America. The frontispiece is included in the pagination and the plates are numbered 1-10, with one having two numbers. Bound with: MORETTI (Tomaso). A General Treatise of Artillery: Or, Great Ordnance Writ in Italian by Tomaso Moretii of Brescia Ingenier first to the Emperour, and now to the most Serene Republick of Venice. Translated into English, with Notes thereupom, and some Additions out of French for Sea-Gunners. By Sir Jonas Moore, Kt. With an Appendix of Artificial Fire-works for War and Delight, by Sir Abraham Dager Kt. Ingenier. Illustrated with divers Cuts. Woodcut frontispiece, seven folding plates, and four pages of diagrams with descriptive text. Second Edition. 8vo. [5]ff, 124pp. London: printed by A. G. and J. P. for Obadiah Blagrave at the Bear in St. Paul's-Church-Yard, 1683 Wing M.2726. ESTC locates ten copies in the the UK and six in North America. A reissue of the 1673 edition of Moore's translation of Moretti's Trattato dell'Artiglieria, which is known only from a single copy at the Huntington. This second edition has a cancel title-page, an added quire "I" and leaves A2-3 cancelled with four pages of the "Definition of Geometry" substituted. Dager's "Appendix" appears here for the first time, and it also includes Georges Fournier's "Advice for Ship-gunners". Bound without the two leaves of advertisements at the end, as is the case in most copies, including the Folger and Macclesfield. The Macclesfield copy, which sold at Sotheby's as lot 3672 on 30/10/2007, was catalogued as lacking two preliminary leaves, which is incorrect, as these were cancelled in this second edition, with the new text substitued. Consequently this copy was also described as imperfect when sold at Swann Galleries in 2017. Very good clean copies of both works. Inscribed in ink on the front flyleaf "H. Slingsby Badminton Jan. ye 27 1693". And beneath "bought by me 1695 Worcester". With the bookplate of "The Most Noble Henry Duke of Beaufort 1705" and two sets of Badminton House shelf-marks. Sir Henry Slingsby (c.1621-c.1688) was Master of the Mint and had two sons, Anthony and Henry, the latter presumably being the owner of this volume. Charles Somerset (1660-1698) was the eldest surviving son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, and was styled as Marquess of Worcester from 1682. On his death the title passed to his son Henry Somerset (1684-1714) who succeeded his grandfather as 2nd Duke of Beaufort and inherited Badminton in 1700. The 9th Duke had a clear-out of books in about 1920 and this volume made its way to then USA.The chemise has the bookplate of Raymond L. J. Riling and label of "The Military Library of Richard Allen Johnson U.S.M.A. 1946". In 1997 I sold a copy of Moretti'.