![BARTON, William (17th century). Arithmeticke Abreviated. Teaching the Art of Tennes or Decimals to work all Questions in Fractions as whole Numbers, without Reduction: An easier and Plainer way than the vulgar. Shewing the use also of Napiers Bones, by which Multiplication and Division is performed without charging the Memory at all to those that will make use of them. As also the extracting of the Square and Cube Roots, with divers Applications thereof. London: [J. Beale] for James Boler and William Luggard, 1634.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/NYR/2003_NYR_01201_0019_000(054044).jpg?w=1)
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BARTON, William (17th century). Arithmeticke Abreviated. Teaching the Art of Tennes or Decimals to work all Questions in Fractions as whole Numbers, without Reduction: An easier and Plainer way than the vulgar. Shewing the use also of Napiers Bones, by which Multiplication and Division is performed without charging the Memory at all to those that will make use of them. As also the extracting of the Square and Cube Roots, with divers Applications thereof. London: [J. Beale] for James Boler and William Luggard, 1634.
8o (139 x 91 mm). Woodcut vignette on title and woodcut diagrams in text. (Small hole cut into center of title affecting a few letters.) 20th-century red half morocco gilt.
FIRST EDITION. An early publication on Napier's bones, an invention for performing arithmetic operations by the manipulation of rods, called "bones" often constructed of wood or ivory. John Napier (1550-1617) is generally considered the inventor of logarithms. STC 1541.
8o (139 x 91 mm). Woodcut vignette on title and woodcut diagrams in text. (Small hole cut into center of title affecting a few letters.) 20th-century red half morocco gilt.
FIRST EDITION. An early publication on Napier's bones, an invention for performing arithmetic operations by the manipulation of rods, called "bones" often constructed of wood or ivory. John Napier (1550-1617) is generally considered the inventor of logarithms. STC 1541.