Speidell (John) A Geometrical Extraction, or a Compendious Collection of the chiefe and choyse problemes, collected out of the best, and latest writers. Whereunto is added about 30. Problemes of the Authors Invention, being for the most part, performed by a better and briefer way, then by any former writer, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, numerous woodcut diagramatic illustrations, lacking initial and terminal blanks, P1&2 misbound before O1, closely shaved at head, occasionally touching headlines, some light marginal browning or soiling, occasional mathematical notes in a later hand, ink inscription to endpaper, 19th century half calf, [STC 23061], small 4to, by Edward Allde, and are to be solde at the authors house in the fields betweene Princes streete and the Cockpit, 1616. ⁂ Scarce in the first edition, A Geometrical Extraction was clearly popular and ran through several editions. John Speidell was a mathematics teacher based in London and a follower of Napier. Provenance: 'Presented to Professor Blackburn by W. Overland Dungar March 1869' (ink inscription).
Speidell (John) A Geometrical Extraction, or a Compendious Collection of the chiefe and choyse problemes, collected out of the best, and latest writers. Whereunto is added about 30. Problemes of the Authors Invention, being for the most part, performed by a better and briefer way, then by any former writer, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, numerous woodcut diagramatic illustrations, lacking initial and terminal blanks, P1&2 misbound before O1, closely shaved at head, occasionally touching headlines, some light marginal browning or soiling, occasional mathematical notes in a later hand, ink inscription to endpaper, 19th century half calf, [STC 23061], small 4to, by Edward Allde, and are to be solde at the authors house in the fields betweene Princes streete and the Cockpit, 1616. ⁂ Scarce in the first edition, A Geometrical Extraction was clearly popular and ran through several editions. John Speidell was a mathematics teacher based in London and a follower of Napier. Provenance: 'Presented to Professor Blackburn by W. Overland Dungar March 1869' (ink inscription).
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