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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ROE, NATHANIEL (1596-1656). Tabulae logarithmicae, or two tables of logarithmes. London: P. Stephens and C. Meredith, 1633. FIRST EDITION. Small 8 vo. Eighteenth century calf, rebacked. (xvi), (300, tables), (4), 70, (10) pp. Last leaf is headed: 'A Table for the Speedy Reduction of Centesmes or Decimall Minutes to Sexagenary Minutes'. It includes a table intended to fold out as a reference when the rest of the book is closed. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Hancock Hall. A few pages numbers partially trimmed in the second part, old rebacking a bit awkwardly accomplished; otherwise, about a very good copy. "This volume comprises two tables, one of the logarithms of natural numbers and the other of logarithms of the sine and tangent functions. The latter is an unusual table in that each degree is divided into 100 parts (each being thirty-six seconds of arc). It is only the second such table printed (the first by Henry Briggs and Henry Gellibrand in the same year, but it was to fourteen decimal places where this table is to ten places). The Wingate essay is on the use of the tables in problems of plane and spherical triangles, the latter containing information on astronomy, geography and navigation" (Tomash Lib. R103). Books Exhibited at the Napier Tercentenary (1914), no. 53. Taylor II. 157.