The vvorks of Edmund Gunter : conteining the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, and other instruments, with a canon of artificiall signes and tangents, to a radius of 10000.0000 parts, and the use thereof in astronomie, navigation, dialling, &c. Much enlarged by the author through the whole work in his life time, together with a new treatise of fortification. Whereunto is now added the further use of the quadrant, fitted for daily practise, with new lines serving the former uses and many other purposes more accurately, By Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie, in Gresham-Colledge, London. The third edition diligently perused, corrected, and amended by Henry Bond, Practitioner in the mathematicks, in the Bulwark neer the Tower.
1653
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Title
The vvorks of Edmund Gunter : conteining the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, and other instruments, with a canon of artificiall signes and tangents, to a radius of 10000.0000 parts, and the use thereof in astronomie, navigation, dialling, &c. Much enlarged by the author through the whole work in his life time, together with a new treatise of fortification. Whereunto is now added the further use of the quadrant, fitted for daily practise, with new lines serving the former uses and many other purposes more accurately, By Samuel Foster, late professor of astronomie, in Gresham-Colledge, London. The third edition diligently perused, corrected, and amended by Henry Bond, Practitioner in the mathematicks, in the Bulwark neer the Tower.
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Created/published
London : Printed by F.N. for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marygold in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1653.
Description
[16], 32, 32-39, 41-80, 79-118, 121-125, [8], 138-163, [1]; 99, [6], 100-266, [2], 267-306; 56, 59-65, 68-75, [1]; [112] p. : ill. ; (4to)
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Note
With an added engraved title page: The workes of Edmund Gunter, ... The third edition. Printed for Fr: Eglesfield and are to be sould at the Marigold in Paulls [sic] Church yard, 1653.
With special title page: Canon Triangulorum, or tables of artificiall sines and tangents, ...London: printed by Francis Neile for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marigold in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1652.
Includes tables, diagrams.
In this edition the letter press title page has: a comma following "Quadrant" in the 14th line; a comma following "corrected" in the 20th line; and the last 'n' in "London" is not swash.
Signatures: pi², 2pi1, 3pi1, b⁴ B-X⁴ Y⁴(-Y3,4), 2A-2N⁴ 2n⁴(-2n4) 2O-3K⁴ 3L² 3M-3P⁴ 3Q⁴(3Q4+chi1), 4A-4I⁴; ²A-O⁴.
With special title page: Canon Triangulorum, or tables of artificiall sines and tangents, ...London: printed by Francis Neile for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marigold in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1652.
Includes tables, diagrams.
In this edition the letter press title page has: a comma following "Quadrant" in the 14th line; a comma following "corrected" in the 20th line; and the last 'n' in "London" is not swash.
Signatures: pi², 2pi1, 3pi1, b⁴ B-X⁴ Y⁴(-Y3,4), 2A-2N⁴ 2n⁴(-2n4) 2O-3K⁴ 3L² 3M-3P⁴ 3Q⁴(3Q4+chi1), 4A-4I⁴; ²A-O⁴.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE jre: title reads: "...sector, corss-staff [sic], and other..."; pag: ...121-128, p. 125, [8]...267-306, [2], 56,...; 3 plates (diagrams); 3L2 is blank; K4v with volvelle; sep. dated title page for "Canon Triangulorum..." is on ²A1r
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), G2239
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R30327
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R30327
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
151- 088q
Folger-specific note
Manuscript markings. 4G1 and ²B2 torn, affecting text. Wormed, affecting text. Bookseller's description laid in. Bound in sheep. Provenance: bought from F. Edwards, 12 April 1955, 753:503
Call number
153- 618q
Folger-specific note
153618. Bound at end is: Foster, Samuel. Posthuma Fosteri ... (London, 1652; Wing F1635). Manuscript markings on rear fly-leaf. Provenance: inscribed on t.p.'s: "AFletcher" (accession slip says "Andrew Fletcher" [Scottish patriot, 1655-1716?] but qu.: Abraham Fletcher, mathematician?), "RFletcher"; bought by Folger from Robinson