Pleasure With Profit; Consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds; viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical. Published to Recreate Ingenious Spirits; and to induce them to make farther scrutiny into these (and the like), sublime sciences and to divert them from following such Vices, to which Youth(in this age) as so much inclin'd., to this work is also annext, A Treatise of Algebra. by R. Sault,

LEYBOURN, William

Verlag: Printed for Richard Baldwin and John Dunton, London, 1694

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Published: 1694. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Quarter leather with five ridged spine and paper covered boards. Title within double-ruled border, diagrams and charts, engraved plates. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Heavy wear to corners, edges and chipped spine ends. Rubbed boards and leather spine edges and ridges. Cracked front endpapers. Firm hinges. Bookplate to front paste down [David F. Cromie]. Half of rear endpaper missing. Some very old annotations in pen and pencil to page margins. Hole to fore edge of first page of Chapter VIII, Mechanical Recreations. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: cm by cm. AUTHOR: Leybourn was a man of multifarious talents: a mathematician, surveyor, astronomer, author, printer and bookseller. Despite the loss of the printing business in the Great Fire of 1666, he was contracted to lead a survey of London after the fire. This led him to write his 1693 work Panarithmologia, a comprehensive guide for builders to estimate needed building materials. It remained in print into the 19th century. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10248

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Titel: Pleasure With Profit; Consisting of ...

Verlag: Printed for Richard Baldwin and John Dunton, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1694

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No DJ

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