BONNER, Robert. Autograph manuscript with various calligraphic additions on navigation, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, economics, navigation, and trade. Barton, 1769.
BONNER, Robert. Autograph manuscript with various calligraphic additions on navigation, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, economics, navigation, and trade. Barton, 1769.

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BONNER, Robert. Autograph manuscript with various calligraphic additions on navigation, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, economics, navigation, and trade. Barton, 1769.

2 volumes, 8o (183 x 111 mm). Vol. 1: 182 pages; vol. 2: 176 pages. Wash cartouche in vol. 2 with author's name, place and date, other watercolor and wash headpieces and diagrams in vol. 2, each section divider and headpiece calligraphically titled. Contemporary uniform speckled calf, vol. 2 with colored engravings of a Red-Bird and finch mounted on pastedowns. Provenance: purchased from Harry A. Levinson, 1953.

Bonner's is a very fine 18th-century hand, and his calligraphic and watercolor decoration greatly enhance the quality of his exercises. (2)

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