MOORE, Jonas, Sir (1617-1679) -- MILLINGTON, Edward, bookseller. Bibliotheca mathematica optimis libris diversarum linguarum refertissima: unà cum variis philologicis, historicis, & geographicis adornata: honoratissim. equitis Jonae Mori ... tertio die Novembris 1684 . [London]: given gratis at Mr. Nott's, Mr. Wilkinson's, Mr. Miller's, Mr. Anthony Stephen's, Mr Francis Hicks, [1684]. 4° (239 x 185mm). (A few tears at hinge of title page, browned.) 19th-century dark blue quarter roan, spine lettered in gilt (very slightly worn at extremities). Provenance : Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) -- Lionel and Philip Robinson (label recording gift to:) -- The Grolier Club, New York (deaccession stamp). Mathematician, Surveyor General of the Ordnance, and patron of astronomy and of John Flamsteed in particular, Moore applied his skills to engineering projects such as draining the Fens and founding, constructing and equipping the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. He wrote numerous mathematical texts, and his library contained a wealth of titles on mathematics, horology, astronomy and related subjects, as well as history and geography. It was first offered en bloc to Oxford and Cambridge universities, but sold at auction in 1684, when the successful purchasers included Flamsteed, Hans Sloane, Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley (of G. Mandelbrote, 'Scientific books and their owners', Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors , ed. A. Hunter 2000, p. 356). Munby & Coral, p. 5; Wing (2nd ed.) M-2567.
MOORE, Jonas, Sir (1617-1679) -- MILLINGTON, Edward, bookseller. Bibliotheca mathematica optimis libris diversarum linguarum refertissima: unà cum variis philologicis, historicis, & geographicis adornata: honoratissim. equitis Jonae Mori ... tertio die Novembris 1684 . [London]: given gratis at Mr. Nott's, Mr. Wilkinson's, Mr. Miller's, Mr. Anthony Stephen's, Mr Francis Hicks, [1684]. 4° (239 x 185mm). (A few tears at hinge of title page, browned.) 19th-century dark blue quarter roan, spine lettered in gilt (very slightly worn at extremities). Provenance : Bibliotheca Lindesiana (bookplate) -- Lionel and Philip Robinson (label recording gift to:) -- The Grolier Club, New York (deaccession stamp). Mathematician, Surveyor General of the Ordnance, and patron of astronomy and of John Flamsteed in particular, Moore applied his skills to engineering projects such as draining the Fens and founding, constructing and equipping the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. He wrote numerous mathematical texts, and his library contained a wealth of titles on mathematics, horology, astronomy and related subjects, as well as history and geography. It was first offered en bloc to Oxford and Cambridge universities, but sold at auction in 1684, when the successful purchasers included Flamsteed, Hans Sloane, Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley (of G. Mandelbrote, 'Scientific books and their owners', Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors , ed. A. Hunter 2000, p. 356). Munby & Coral, p. 5; Wing (2nd ed.) M-2567.
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