LEYBOURN, William (1626-1700?). Pleasure with Profit: consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz. Numerical ... Cryptographical ... Chymical, and Historical ... To this Work is also Annext, a Treatise of Algebra ... by R. Sault. London: for R. Baldwin and J. Dunton, 1694. 7 parts in one volume, 2° (305 x 188mm). 2 folding engraved plates, engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text (bottom half of third C1 cut away with severe loss of text, clean cut in following leaf, top fore-corners of sixth C1&2 cut away with no loss, some discolouration and browning, especially at the end). Contemporary calf, panels of spine and sides ruled in blind (rubbed, joints split, corners worn). Provenance : From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing L1931.
LEYBOURN, William (1626-1700?). Pleasure with Profit: consisting of Recreations of Divers Kinds, viz. Numerical ... Cryptographical ... Chymical, and Historical ... To this Work is also Annext, a Treatise of Algebra ... by R. Sault. London: for R. Baldwin and J. Dunton, 1694. 7 parts in one volume, 2° (305 x 188mm). 2 folding engraved plates, engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text (bottom half of third C1 cut away with severe loss of text, clean cut in following leaf, top fore-corners of sixth C1&2 cut away with no loss, some discolouration and browning, especially at the end). Contemporary calf, panels of spine and sides ruled in blind (rubbed, joints split, corners worn). Provenance : From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Wing L1931.
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