John WALLIS (1616-1703). A Treatise of Algebra, both historical and practical, London: by J. Playford for Richard Davis, 1685, 5 parts in one volume, 2°, 10 folding engraved plates, woodcut diagrams (lacking the engraved portrait, repair to inner margin of title, 2E3v- 2F2 of part one slightly stained, title to the section "Of Angular Sections" torn and repaired at outer margin, A3 of the next part holed and repaired at outer margin, occasional small rust spots), modern black buckram [Honeyman 3086; Wing W613] Provenance: Coll. Reg. (?)...on. Bibl. (old, partly erased stamp at foot of title); and a volume of logarithm tables (London, 1792). (2)