Lot 1296 , Leybourn, William - Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in nine books ... With the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments ...

° Leybourn, William - Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in nine books ... With the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments ... 43 plates (many folded), a tipped-in engraved illus. & text engravings; newly rebound gilt lettered calf backed buckram, roy.4to. printed for Thomas Best (& 4 others), 1690
£600-900

Condition:
New e/ps and blanks (front blank with a mod. birthday inscriptn), title frayed at fore and lower edges and laid down (but no printing loss); pp.433/34 torn away at lower fore-edge corner with a loss of last / first words of some 14 final lines; folded plt./p.398) with creasing, 3 or 4 plates with some edge fraying, folded plt. (p.463) with old pencilled marginal notes; some minor stains here and there (markedly p.419, less so pp.247-50); at end lacks final 2 leaves (pp.89-92); pp.(87/88) repaired and laid down (no loss); 1 or 2 plts. (only) cut close. Pagination - includes foliation: (15),360,(1),355-440pp.; 441-526.; (I), 547-652pp.; 653-694, (I), 698-724ff.; (I), 731-904 and (88)pp. incl. part titles. The tipped in illus (p.406, 'The Topicall Projection') is creased down the inside edge: fol.479 has a map on each page; plate at fol.477 has frayed fore-edge, just affecting sm.part of engraved surface. ESTC. R2239. Prelims. incl. Corrigenda leaf.

Sold for £600