Mathematicall Recreations Collection Problemes by Leurechon Jean (11 results)

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Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 348 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 156.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 354. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1653 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 354.

Full title - MATHEMATICALL RECREATIONS. OR A COLLECTION OF SUNDRIE PROBLEMES; EXTRACTED OUT OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERNE PHILOSOPHERS, AS SECRETS IN NATURE, AND EXPERIMENTS IN ARITHMETICKE, GEOMETRIE, COSMOGRAPHIE, HOROLOGOGRAPHIE, ASTRONOMIE, NAVIGATION, MUSICKE, OPTICKS, ARCHITECTURE, STATICKE, MACHANICKS, CHIMESTRIE, WATERWORKES, FIREWORKS, &C. NOT VULGARLY MADE MANIFEST UNTIL THIS TIME: FIT FOR SCHOLLERS, STUDENTS, AND GENTLEMEN, THAT DESIRE TO KNOW THE PHILOSOPHICALL CAUSE OF MANY ADMIRABLE CONCLUSIONS. USEFUL FOR OTHERS, TO ACUATE AND STIRRE THEM UP TO THE SEARCH OF FURTHER KNOWLEDGE; AND SERVICE-ABLE TO ALL FOR MANY EXCELLENT THINGS, BOTH FOR PLEASURE AND RECREATION. MOST OF WHICH WERE WRITTEN FIRST IN GREEKE AND LATINE, LATELY COMPILED IN FRENCH, BY HENRY VAN ETTEN GENT. AND NOW DELIVERED IN THE ENGLISH TONGUE, WITH THE EXAMINATIONS, CORRECTIONS, AND AUGMENTATIONS. British and English language first edition (1633 on frontis and title page and 1632 on rear license leaf). Hardcover: H 17.5cm x L 10.25cm. [front pastedown], [blank recto | verso "prefatory poem "On the Frontispice and Booke" by "W.S."], [recto pictorial frontis+title | blank verso], [1-38], 1-[287], [1-4+blank verso], [rear pastedown]. Sold as is. Should be re-backed at the minimum but with that decision and aesthetic left to the purchaser. Older, perhaps contemporary but at least 18th century, English speckled calfskin boards minimally decorated with blindstamped lines at margins; board leather scuffed and quite edge-worn particularly at corners; rear board leather peeling back from underlying cardstock with much milder separation to front board leather; detached remnant spine leather now laid-in leaving quires fully exposed lengthwise and adversely affecting joints/hinges so that both boards are only tenuously attached; spine leather likely not contemporary as it has blindstamped horizontal lines instead of raised bands nor do the lines match up to the spine's horizontal stitching. Relatively modern pencil notes and a few older ink markings on front and rear pastedowns; several margin chips and tears to interior leaves with largest being a fore-edge chip to pages 71-72 just abutting text but no loss thereto; some soiling and age toning/foxing throughout. Early 20th century bookseller ticket for the venerable San Francisco dealer John Howell at rear pastedown's bottom left. At least nineteen typographical errors to pagination (collation upon request). Frontispiece fore-edge curled and worn as it extends past the text block. Evidently the dual presence of frontispiece and its opposing "W.S." prefatory poem are unusual in extant copies. OCLC locates fifteen copies of this 1633 British edition at thirteen institutions plus a non-OCLC recorded copy turns up at LoC. "Recreations Mathematiques" was first published in France in 1624 with a "revised, corrected, and augmented" edition in 1626 followed by other seven other French editions inclusive to 1639 but this British edition is scarcer than most of its early French counterparts. Featuring text and 131 problems apparently sourced from three different French editions, this London Cotes-Hawkins imprint adds to the book's convoluted and confusing history with authorship, translation, and other bibliographic details addressed in an extensive Brown University library catalog entry. London printer Thomas Cotes and London bookseller/publisher Richard Hawkins were both involved in the publishing of William Shakespeare's 1632 Second Folio with Hawkins also being the publisher of the second quarto of Othello in 1630. Although without any markings as such this book was acquired from the estate of University of Alabama Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Oscar Richard Ainsworth (1922-2001). Additional jpeg images furnished upon request. Please note that this book will require additional postage and insurance for registered courier delivery.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 156.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1653 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 353 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 353.