9
Clendinin’s practical surveyor’s assistant.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 9, as above, reading
p 4to.
CLENDININ,
John.
The Practical Surveyor’s Assistant. In Two Parts. Part the I. being a Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure fitted
to every Degree of the Quadrant, and continued from one tenth of a perch to a Mile. Part the II. a like Table fitted to every
Quarter of a Degree of the Quadrant, and continued from one tenth of a Perch to four hundred and fifty Perches. Calculated
by John Clendinin, land surveyor.
Philadelphia: printed for the author,
m,dcc,xciii
. [1793.]
4to. 47 leaves; no copy was seen for collation.
Evans 25305.
Karpinski, page 102.
The name John Clendinin, surveyor, appears in the Philadelphia directory (47 Sugar alley) in the year 1793 only.
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10
Geometrie de Le Clerc.
8
vo.
Paris.
1774.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 4, as above.
LE CLERC,
Sebastien.
Traité de Géométrie theorique et pratique, a l’Usage des Artistes: par Sebastien Le Clerc, Chevalier Romain, dessinateur & graveur du cabinet du Roi, professeur de géométrie & de perspective dans l’Académie Royale
de Peinture & de Sculpture. Nouvelle édition.
A
Paris: chez
Ch. Ant. Jombert,
m. dcc. lxxiv.
Avec approbation & privilege du Roi. [1774.]
QA464 .L46
8vo. 124 leaves, engraved vignette on the title-page and engraved head piece by Cochin fils, 54 folded engraved plates with vignettes by Cochin fils, Chedel, or Mlle. Taunay after Cochin fils and Chedel, below the geometrical diagrams.
Quérard V, 45.
This edition not in De Ricci-Cohen which describes an edition of 1764 with the same plates.
A copy was sent to Jefferson in Philadelphia from Paris by
Froullé, announced in a letter from the latter dated 20 juillet 1791, price
8.6.
Sebastien Le Clerc, 1637-1714, French mathematician and engraver. The first edition of his treatise on geometry was published in 1669. The first
edition with engravings appeared in 1744. For books with engravings by Le Clerc, see the Index.
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11
Playfair’s Elements of geometry.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 3, as above.
PLAYFAIR,
John.
Elements of Geometry, containing the first Six Books of Euclid, with a Supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the
Geometry of Solids.
Philadelphia: printed for
F. Nichols by
Thomas and George Palmer,
1806.
First American Edition. 8vo. 161 leaves; no copy was seen for collation.
John Playfair, 1748-1819, Scottish mathematician and geologist, was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1785
he became joint professor of mathematics with Dr. Adam Ferguson in the University of Edinburgh and later became professor
of natural philosophy in the same university. The
Elements of Geometry was first published in Edinburgh in 1795.
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