Hume, James
£500
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Traité de la trigonometrie... Paris: Nicholas et Jean de la Coste, 1636. 8vo, folding table, woodcut on verso of colophon leaf, contemporary speckled calf, lower joint split, upper joint weak, P1 misbound, some dust-soiling, a little browned in places, a few repairs to corners; Ward, John The young mathematician's guide... London: A. Bettesworth and F. Fayrham, 1724. 8vo, portrait, contemporary calf, spine and covers rubbed, joints beginning to split slightly, [ESTC T120453]; MacLaurin, Colin A treatise of algebra in three parts... London: A. Millar and J. Nourse, 1756. Second edition, 8vo, 12 folding plates, contemporary calf, spine rubbed and chipped, joints weak [ESTC T152308]; and 5 disbound numbers of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London dating from 1667 to 1670 (8)