Shelfmark
Gb.4.03(02)
Author
Title
New logarithmes. The first inuention whereof, was, by the Honourable Lo: Iohn Nepair Baron of Marchiston, and printed at Edinburg in Scotland, anno: 1614. in whose vse was and is required the knowledge of albraicall [sic] addition and substraction, according to + and - these being extracted from and out of them (they being first ouer seene, corrected, and amended) require not at all any skill in algebra, or Cossike numbers, but may be vsed by euery one that can onely adde and substract, in whole numbers, according to the common or vulgar arithmeticke, without an consideration or respect of + and - by Iohn Speidell, professor of the mathematickes, and are to bee solde at his dwelling house in the Fields, on the backe side of Drury Lane, betweene Princes streete and the new playhouse..
Edition
The 7. inpression..
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London : [printed by Edward Allde? for John Speidell ... to be solde at his dwelling house ...], 1625.
Physical description
[122] p. : tables ; 19 cm. (4to)
Note
Printer's name from STC.
Note
Signatures: pi1 B-L⁴ M⁶(-M6) N-O⁴(-N4) P⁸.
Note
G2, MICH have the long addition, ETON the short.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.) 23064.3
Citation/references note
ESTC, S125634
Provenance
17th-century bookplate of Eton College of verso of title page of bound-with item.
Binding
Contemporary 17th-century limp vellum laced case binding with fore-edge flaps and traces of two pairs of ties; four sewing stations on alum-tawed thongs.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy imperfect (or variant?): [96] leaves; title leaf pi1 preceded by blank leaf; followed by pi2 with blank recto; M5 followed by 4 unsigned leaves of tables not corresponding to quires N-P in Bodleian copy, which are wanting in ECL copy.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is bound between parts 1 and 2 of John Speidell, A breefe treatise of sphaericall triangles ... London: E. Allde, 1627.
Copy-specific note
Previous Eton shelfmarks: Dd.4.25, Eg.4.20.
Subject
Logarithms Tables Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mathematics Tables Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Allde, Edward, ? - d. 1627 printer.
Added entry--name
Speidell, John, fl. 1600 - 1634 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B10898