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MOORE (JONAS) A New Systeme of the Mathematicks, 8 parts in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, A. Godbid and J. Playford, for Robert Scott, 1681
15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
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MOORE (JONAS)
A New Systeme of the Mathematicks, 8 parts in 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, letterpress titles printed in red and black, 87 engraved plates (54 folding, one with volvelle supplied in facsimile) and numerous engraved illustrations ( 3 full-page, wanting the volvelle in text), volume 1 with corrected letterpress text pasted at foot of p.185, small wormtrail at foot of 7 gatherings and 3 pages with owner's inkstamp, contemporary calf, gilt red morocco spine labels, joints cracked [Wing M2579; Sabin 50415], 4to, A. Godbid and J. Playford, for Robert Scott, 1681
Footnotes
Remarkably lavish given its ostensible purpose as a textbook for Christ's Hospital. Moore tutored Flamsteed and Halley, and his work was published posthumously by Flamsteed and another of Moore's pupils, Peter Perkins. The present copy is textually complete according to ESTC, albeit bound in a different order, but plate counts vary from one copy to another.
Provenance: C.W. Black of Mossel Bay, South Africa, inkstamps and bookplate; presentation inscription to Dr. George Russell of Oudtshoom, May 1915.





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