Title: Pleasure with profit: consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical... Author: Leybourn, William Place: London Publisher: Printed for Richard Baldwin, and John Dunton Date: 1694 Description: [2], vi, [4], 56, 68, 31, [1], 24, 63, [1], 28, 13, 2-10, 9, [1], 11, [1], 26, [4], 52 pp. With 2 folding engraved plates; diagrams in the text. (folio) 31.4x19.3 cm (12½x7½"), rebound in leather with period calf covers employed. First Edition Rather whimsically titled but important work by the English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller William Leybourn (1626-1716). Wing L1931. Lot Amendments Condition: Some expected rubbing to the old calf; early ink letters to some upper page corners; very good or better. Item number: 295371b
Title: Pleasure with profit: consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical... Author: Leybourn, William Place: London Publisher: Printed for Richard Baldwin, and John Dunton Date: 1694 Description: [2], vi, [4], 56, 68, 31, [1], 24, 63, [1], 28, 13, 2-10, 9, [1], 11, [1], 26, [4], 52 pp. With 2 folding engraved plates; diagrams in the text. (folio) 31.4x19.3 cm (12½x7½"), rebound in leather with period calf covers employed. First Edition Rather whimsically titled but important work by the English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller William Leybourn (1626-1716). Wing L1931. Lot Amendments Condition: Some expected rubbing to the old calf; early ink letters to some upper page corners; very good or better. Item number: 295371b
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