COTES, Roger (1682-1716). Harmonia Mensuarum ... Accedunt alia Opuscula Mathematica, edited by Robert Smith, Cambridge: 1722, 4°, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved table, woodcut (lacking 3L2 called for by Norman, first three leaves almost detached, first leaf of the dedication to Richard Mead slightly soiled on recto, later manuscript pencil note at foot of 3*1, E3-4 and F3-4 slightly wormed at outer margin), later half sheep over old marbled boards (extremities rubbed, library markings in gilt, front inner hinges split) [Honeyman 768; Norman 519; Sotheran I, 876] Provenance: C. Lendesdorf, Pemb. Coll. Oxford, May 1876 (ownership inscription on front blank); JCL. Toether with a second work by Bungus. (2)

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COTES, Roger (1682-1716). Harmonia Mensuarum ... Accedunt alia Opuscula Mathematica, edited by Robert Smith, Cambridge: 1722, 4°, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved table, woodcut (lacking 3L2 called for by Norman, first three leaves almost detached, first leaf of the dedication to Richard Mead slightly soiled on recto, later manuscript pencil note at foot of 3*¹, E³-⁴ and F³-⁴ slightly wormed at outer margin), later half sheep over old marbled boards (extremities rubbed, library markings in gilt, front inner hinges split) [Honeyman 768; Norman 519; Sotheran I, 876] Provenance: C. Lendesdorf, Pemb. Coll. Oxford, May 1876 (ownership inscription on front blank); JCL. Toether with a second work by Bungus. (2)

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Roger Cotes's death at the age of 33 had been "untimely" since he was regarded as "one of the very few British mathematicians capable of following on from Newton's great work" (DSB).

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