The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1791 (-1797): Being the Third After Bissextile - Containing Many Useful and Entertaining Particulars, Peculiarly Adapted to the Ingenious Gentlemen Engaged in the Delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks (7 Bound Editions in One Volume)

SEVEN BOUND EDITIONS in the ONE VOLUME: 1791 - 1797 inclusive. Full title as follows: "The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1791 (-1797): Being the Third After Bissextile - Containing Many Useful and Entertaining Particulars, Peculiarly Adapted to the Ingenious Gentlemen Engaged in the Delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks". The 1791 edition states "The fifty-first almanack published of this kind; and the thirty-ninth of the new style in England" (to the 1797 edition) "The fifty-seventh almanack published - - and the forty-fifth of the new style in England". Numerous formulas, figures, tables & mathematical diagrams throughout. Title pages printed in black & red (with some additional text printed in red). Small volume (17 x 10.5cm). Bound in contemporary half-leather & marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-ruled spine, no external lettering. NOTE: Boards rubbed, hinges cracked & both boards very loose (but still attached), each title page with excise tax stamp (dated 1791-1797), a couple of very neat ink notations in the text, mild browning to endpapers, otherwise a nice clean tight copy. Internally VG. Paginated within each year (48pp x 7). RARE. …