Arithmetical recreations, or, Enchiridion of arithmetical questions : both delightful and profitable : all of them performed without algebra : with several arithmetical problems, and their answers : also, divers subtile contracts or agreements : a discourse concerning the harmony of numbers, and variety of numbers, and variety of compendiums in the several rules of arithmetick / by Will. Leybourn, philomathemat.
Arithmetical recreations, or, Enchiridion of arithmetical questions : both delightful and profitable : all of them performed without algebra : with several arithmetical problems, and their answers : also, divers subtile contracts or agreements : a discourse concerning the harmony of numbers, and variety of numbers, and variety of compendiums in the several rules of arithmetick / by Will. Leybourn, philomathemat.
Uniform title
Arithmetical recreations
Edition
The second edition, corrected, and very much enlarged / by the author.
Created/published
London : Printed for Hen. Brome, at the Gun at the west-end of St. Paul's, 1676.
Description
[12], 108, 107-130, 133-191, [1] p. ; 13 cm (12mo)
English short title catalogue, R259 Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) L1898
Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
270- 336q
Folger-specific note
In manuscript in early hands: Tho. Wotton; William Marwell his book a[u]gust [the] 10 day 92; Tho. Young his booke rest him. Lists of manuscript prices, calculations; a couple of manuscript corrections in the text. Bottom portion of first fly-leaf (detached paste-down?) torn away; manuscript text just above reads "Ma amoure." Booklabel: Erwin Tomash. In an early leather (sheep) inboard binding. Acquired from Sotheby's auction of The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing (part 1, lot 361), 2018-09-18/19.
