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LEURECHON, Jean (1591-1670). Mathematicall Recreations. Or, a Collection of many problemes extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers, as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie… London: William Leake, 1653.
8° (160 x 103mm). Additional folding engraved title, numerous engraved illustrations, one full-page, woodcut headpieces and initials. (Lightly browned throughout, a few margins with thin wormtrack.) Contemporary calf (rear cover detached, front cover repaired along front joint with new cords but joint broken, head and tail of spine chipped). Provenance: John, Marquess of Tweeddale (bookplate).
First published under the pseudonym of Henrik van Etten in Rouen, 1624, the Récréations mathématique is Leurechon’s most famous work. It was first published in English in 1651. This is the second edition in English which is the first to contain William Oughtred’s 16-page essay ‘The description and use of the double horizontall dyall’ and the first English translation of Leurechon’s section on artificial fireworks. The work was so popular that some thirty edition were published by 1700. Wing L-1790.
8° (160 x 103mm). Additional folding engraved title, numerous engraved illustrations, one full-page, woodcut headpieces and initials. (Lightly browned throughout, a few margins with thin wormtrack.) Contemporary calf (rear cover detached, front cover repaired along front joint with new cords but joint broken, head and tail of spine chipped). Provenance: John, Marquess of Tweeddale (bookplate).
First published under the pseudonym of Henrik van Etten in Rouen, 1624, the Récréations mathématique is Leurechon’s most famous work. It was first published in English in 1651. This is the second edition in English which is the first to contain William Oughtred’s 16-page essay ‘The description and use of the double horizontall dyall’ and the first English translation of Leurechon’s section on artificial fireworks. The work was so popular that some thirty edition were published by 1700. Wing L-1790.
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