Arithmetica logarithmica, sive, Logarithmorum chiliades triginta pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000, et a 90,000 ad 100,000 : quorum ope multa perficiuntur arithmetica problemata et geometrica : hos numeros primus invenit clarissimus vir Iohannes Neperus baro Merchistonij : eos autem ex eiusdem sententia mutavit, eorumque ortum et vsum illustravit Henricus Briggius, in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi geometriae professor Savilianus.

Arithmetica logarithmica

Londini : Excudebat Gulielmus Iones, 1624.

[8], 88, [336] p. : ill., coat of arms ; 32 cm (fol.)

Chiefly tables.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ b-m⁴ A-Q⁶ R⁴ 4H⁸ 4I-4Q⁶ *⁶ [par.]⁶; m1 signed 'M'; [par.]6 signed '[par.]4'.

"Chilias prima" (caption title) begins an unpaginated section of tables collating A-Q⁶ R⁴ 4H⁸ 4I-O⁶ [star]⁶. "Finis" at foot of [star]6 verso. Some copies do not have the final gathering [par.]

Errata: [superscript pi]A4 recto.

English short title catalogue, S107110
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 3739

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 3739 (folio)

Includes final gathering signed "[par.]" In early leather (calf) inboard binding, rebacked; gilt arms of Henry Stanley of Middlesex on boards. Modern armorial bookplate (motto: Quod tuum tene) of Chetham's Library, "Manchester Library." Booklabel: Erwin Tomash; stamped numbers. Housed in modern folding cloth box. Acquired from Sotheby's auction of The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing (part 1, lot 92), 2018-09-18/19.

Purchase made possible by The Charles W. Engelhard Acquisitions Fund.

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