words at length. Also Rules to be observed in estimating the Value of Annuities, and Leases for Lives, &c. By John Ward, of Chester; formerly Chief Surveyor and Gauger-General in the Excise. The
Second Edition, carefully corrected; and improved with large additions, throughout the whole, by the Author.
London: printed for
Dan. Browne Jun
r.
,
m.dcc.xxiv.
[1724.]
QA35 .W26
8vo. 116 leaves, mathematical diagrams and tables.
This edition not in Lowndes.
The first edition was printed in London in 1695.
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9
Saunderson’s Algebra.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 31, as above.
SAUNDERSON,
Nicholas.
The Elements of Algebra, in Ten Books: By Nicholas Saunderson LL. D. late Lucasian Professor of the Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Volume
the First, containing the Five First Books. To which are prefixed I. The Life and Character of the Author. II. His Palpable Arithmetic
Decyphered.
Cambridge: printed at
the University-Press,
mdccxl
. [1740.]
QA154 .S25
First Edition. 2 vol. 4to. 207 and 210 leaves with continuous signatures and pagination; engraved frontispiece portrait by Vander Gucht after Vanderbanck, 9 plates, some folded; the title of the second volume varies from that of the first. List of subscribers on four leaves
in volume I, followed by a leaf with the errata list.
De Morgan, page 68.
Bowes 458.
Nicholas Saunderson, 1682-1739, English mathematician, succeeded William Whiston as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University.
Saunderson lost his sight and his eyes through smallpox before he was one year old. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society,
and was a friend of Newton, De Moivre, Keill and others whose works appear in this catalogue.
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10
Emerson’s Algebra.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 109, no. 10, as above.
EMERSON,
William.
A Treatise of Algebra, in Two Books . . .
Jefferson’s copy of this work lost its title-page before the printing of any catalogue which noted the edition. In the absence
of his own copy therefore it is not possible to know which edition was sold by him to Congress.
William Emerson, 1701-1782, English mathematician and author, and a nephew by marriage of Dr. Johnson, published the first edition of this
work in 1764. For other works by him see the Index.
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11
M
c.laurin’s Algebra.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 9, as above.
MACLAURIN,
Colin.
A Treatise of Algebra, in three parts. Containing I. The fundamental Rules and Operations. II. The Composition and Resolution
of Equations of all Degrees; and the different affections of their roots. III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to
each other. To which is added an Appendix, concerning the general
