Compendious Course Practical Mathematicks Adapted by Webster William (2 results)

Condition: Fair. [4], 231 p. interspersed with plates. 17 cm. Black and red title page. 10-fold-out plates. From our As Is shelf. Front board missing and leather rear board detached. Spine deteriorated and cracked. Title, dedication, and Contents pages as well as rear free endpapers detached. First page of text loosening. Ink signature and notations title and on rear pastedown. Title darkened with chips to edges. Title continues: "For the most Part translated from the Tracts publish'd in French by P. Hoste, Professor of Mathematicks in the Royal Academy of Thoulon. Vol. III containing, I. Use of the Globes. II. Navigation. III. The Theory of Working A Ship. To which are added, I. An Alphabetical Explanation of such Sea-Terms and Phrases as occur in the Work. II. An Appendix, containing the Descriptions and Use of a Complete Set of Case of Pocket-Instruments.".

Vol. I. subtitled Arithmetick in epitme, or, a compendium of all its rules both Vulgar and Decimal. Small 8vo [xiv], 226, [ii] pages. Leather, hinges broken, very rubbed. Internally good condition, with light foxing and spotting. Front end-paper inscribed by private collector "William Baron, his book, anno domini 1733".