THE DOCTRINE OF UNIVERSAL COMPARISON Or General Proportion [bound with] THE ANTECEDENTAL CALCULUS [&] AN ESSAY ON THE THEORY OF THE VARIOUS ORDERS OF LOGARITHMIC TRANSCENDENTS [&] A TREATISE ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE HIGHER EQUATIONS IN ALGEBRA

1st edn. 4 vols bound as 1. 4to (10½ x 8½ ins). Contemporary half calf recently re-backed with gilt ruled raised-ribbed spine with contrasting label (spine Fine, boards scratched and lightly rubbed at edges). Pp. [vi] + 45 + [1] blank [&] 16 [&] xiv + 128 [&] vii + [1] errata + 40, vols I and IV with half titles, illus with mathematical notations in text (previous owner's neat ink inscription on front free endpaper and annotations on rear paste-down; vol III pp. 62-63 with light annotations in margins and pp. 73-84 heavily spotted). James Glenie: The Doctrine of Universal Comparison or General Proportion (G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1st edn 1789); James Glenie: The Antecedental Calculus or a Geometrical Method of Reasoning Without any Consideration of Motion or Velocity Applicable to Every Purpose to which Fluxions Have Been or Can Be Applied (G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1st edn 1793); William Spence: An Essay on the Theory of the Various Orders of Logarithmic Transcendents with an Inquiry into Their Applications to the Integral Calculus and the Summation of Series (John Murray 1st edn 1809); W. Lea: Treatise on the Resolution of the Higher Equations in Algebra (J. Johnson and Co. 1st edn 1811).…