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SIMSON, Robert. Sectionum conicarum libri quinque, Edinburgh: W. Sands, A. Murray & J. Cochran, 1750. Small 4°, 39 folding engraved plates (a few plates with closed tears or small marginal repairs, light spotting and staining at beginning), contemporary calf (front cover almost detached, rear joints split but cords firmly holding, front endpaper detached, extremities very rubbed), bookplates of Coward College and Dew College. Second edition.
With 4 other works, including a second copy of the first named item, Bernhard Nieventyt's Analysis infinitorum seu curvilineorum proprietates ex polygonorum natura deducta (Amsterdam, 1695, lacks 2 plates) and Vicenzo Riccati's Opusculorum (Bologna 1757-62, lacking 10 plates, partly supplied in manuscript). (5)
With 4 other works, including a second copy of the first named item, Bernhard Nieventyt's Analysis infinitorum seu curvilineorum proprietates ex polygonorum natura deducta (Amsterdam, 1695, lacks 2 plates) and Vicenzo Riccati's Opusculorum (Bologna 1757-62, lacking 10 plates, partly supplied in manuscript). (5)