Shelfmark
Gb.5.11B(02)
Author
Title
Methodus incrementorum directa & inversa. / Auctore Brook Taylor, LL.D. & Regiæ Societatæ secretario.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : Typis Pearsonianis: prostant apud Gul. Innys ad Insignia Principis in Cœmeterio Paulino., MDCCXV. [1715]
Physical description
[6], 118, [2] p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (4to.)
Note
Signatures: [pi]² A-2G² [chi]1.
Note
With a final leaf of corrigenda & addenda.
Note
Woodcut geometrical diagrams and tables throughout.
Note
Woodcut title-page vignette.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T133782
Provenance
Violet ink circular stamp of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: S. Rigaud, Ex: Coll Ox: Mar. 2. 1803. S. Rigaud stamped in blind in centre of front board. Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774-1839) was a Fellow of Exeter College from 1794-1810, later appointed Savilian professor of astronomy and observer at the Radcliffe Observatory. See both Alumni Oxonienses (1891) and ODNB.
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library.
Binding
Contemporary mid brown calf, sprinkled save for inner frame; concentric frames of blind tooled double fillet and floral roll; blind tooled zigzag roll on board edges; modern rebacking in brown calf; earlier red morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet reattached; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
First of two items bound in volume.
Copy-specific note
Marginal annotations throughout (some trimmed by the binder); manuscript corrigenda and addenda on final leaf.
Subject
Calculus Early works to 1800.
Subject
Finite differences Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Innys, William, ? - -1756 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Pearson, William, active 1699 - 1735 printer.
Added entry--name
Rigaud, Stephen Peter, 1774 - 1839 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B47063