Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio : ejusque usus, in utraque trigonometria; vt etiam in omni logistica mathematica, amplissimi, facillimi, & expeditissimi explicatio. Accesserunt opera posthuma; primò, mirifici ipsius canonis constructio, & logarithmorum ad naturales ipsorum numeros habitudines. Secundò, appendix de alia, eáque praestantiore logarithmorum specie construenda. Tertiò, propositiones quaedam eminentissimae, ad triangula sphaerica mirâ facilitate resolvenda. Autore ac inventore Ioanne Nepero, Barone Merchistonii, &c. Scoto.

Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio

Edinburgi : Excudebat Andreas Hart, Anno 1619.

[8], 57, [91]; 67, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; (4to)

Title within cartouche.

Leaves ¹I and m, as originally printed, formed a half-sheet.

I1v-m1r contain mathematical tables.

"Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio .. vna cum annotationibus .. Henrici Briggii" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.

A reissue of the 1614 edition (the state with the "Admonitio" on m1v, STC 18349a), with cancel general title page and the second part added. Many copies lack the first part.

Signatures: A⁴(±A1) B-H⁴ I1 a-l⁴ m1, ²A-H⁴ ²I².

Part II published by Robert Napier after the author's death; Napier, A catalogue (1889) p. 137-141 -- DFo.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1986. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1901:9)

Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 18350
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S123220

Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

STC 18350

191609. Imperfect: lacking sigs.²C-G. Sigs.²H, ²I misbound between sigs.c and d. Cancellandum (general t.p. from 1614 issue) present. Rebound around limp vellum wrapper. Provenance: Cashel Cathedral library copy