Lot Essay
This work was first published in 1751 and the present manusript was for the second edition of 1757.
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JOHN ROWE (1726-76, mathematician)
An autographed manuscript, 177pp., 4to, signed with initials ('J.R. July 5, 1757'), headed: 'Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, the manuscript of the second edition. London, 1757', including copious additions and amendments of the first edition with approximately 74 diagrams inserted in the text written in a neat cursive hand, signed on the verso of the final page, contemporary calf (damaged), Rowe's bookplate.
An autographed manuscript, 177pp., 4to, signed with initials ('J.R. July 5, 1757'), headed: 'Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions, the manuscript of the second edition. London, 1757', including copious additions and amendments of the first edition with approximately 74 diagrams inserted in the text written in a neat cursive hand, signed on the verso of the final page, contemporary calf (damaged), Rowe's bookplate.