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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. [London}, for W. Freeman, 1707. 8vo, [viii], 364p. 7 engraved plates, most folding. Bound with 'A Table of Logarithm Numbers', [78p], 1707; 'A Table of Artificial Sines and Tangents', [89p], 1707; and a 3 page book catalogue. Title laid down, three leaves with wear & small loss at start & one at end. Main text complete. A good copy rebound in brown cloth gilt. Chapters on Arithmetick, Astronomy, Navigation, Surveying, Dialling, Fortification, Gunnery, Globes and Instruments. The section on ''The Description and Use of Mathematical Instruments' pp306-364 is by W Alingham. Scarce.