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OUGHTRED, William (1575-1660). The Key of the Mathematicks new Forged and Filed: Together with a Treatise of the Resolution of all kinde of affected aequations in numbers. Translated by Robert Wood (ca. 1622-1685). London: Thomas Harper, for Richard Whitaker, 1647.
8o (147 x 92 mm). Collation: b8 (-b1 and b8 presumably blank) B-O8. 110 leaves. Folding engraved frontispiece portrait of the author after Wenceslaus Hollar (clean tear at lower image), 11 engraved plates at end, including one with volvelle and 2 on recto and verso of same leaf, numerous engraved diagrams in text. (Some pale dampstaining at end.) Modern calf.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Includes a short treatise at end entitled "A most easie way for the delineation of Plaine Sun-dials, only by Geometry," and is illustrated with a sun-dial volvelle and other engraved plates. Wing O-582; Norman 1622.
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Includes a short treatise at end entitled "A most easie way for the delineation of Plaine Sun-dials, only by Geometry," and is illustrated with a sun-dial volvelle and other engraved plates. Wing O-582; Norman 1622.