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TAYLOR, John.

Thesaurarium Mathematicae, Or The Treasury of the Mathematicks. Containing Variety of usefull Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Geography, Navigation and Surveying.

London: Printed by J.H. for W. Freeman, 1687.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002006

Thesaurarium Mathematicae, Or The Treasury of the Mathematicks. Containing Variety of usefull Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Geography, Navigation and Surveying. As also The Mensuration of Board, Glass, Tiling, Paving, Timber, Stone, and Irregular Solids. Likewise it teacheth the Art of Gauging, Dialling, Fortification, Military-orders, and Gunnery: Explains the Logarithms, Sines, Tangents and Secants: Sheweth their use in Arithmetick, &c. To which is Annexed a Table of 10000 Logarithms, Log-Sines and Log-Tangents. Illustrated with Several Mathematical Sculptures on Copper Plates. London: Printed by J.H. for W. Freeman, 1687. 3 parts in one volume. 8vo (185x115 mm). [20], 1-328, [2], [339] 340-399 [400-402] 403-416 [417] 418-507, [3] pp. including frontispiece portrait by Van Houe, 3 part titles and 8 folding engraved plates. Signatures: pi1, A-X8, Y4, Aa-Kk8, Ll7. Half leather over marbled boards with paper label to spine dated 1868 (little wear to extremities, endpapers renewed). Light age-toning of text and minor spotting in places, some fraying and soiling to fore-edges of plates not affecting image, short tears to plates 3, 6 and 8 outside plate mark, plate 6 misbound before p.217. A fine copy with ample margins. ----

Wing T534, ESTC R23734. The rare FIRST EDITION. Among the "Geographical Descriptions" is a section on America, "the fourth part of the world... When the Spanish had entred on America they found the people without Apparel, and their Bread was made from the Jucca-Root, whose juice is a strong poyson: but it being squeezed out and dried it makes bread. They worshiped Devillish Spirits..." (pp.169-180). Other sections are included on astronomy, navigation, surveying and gunnery. The pagination is continuous throughout (although there are no pages numbered 329-336) but there are separate title-pages: "A table of logarithm numbers", "A table of proportional parts" and "A table of artificial sines and tangents" on 2A1r, 2E1r and 2F1r, respectively. Advertisements on Ll6v and Ll7r.

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