The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments. Translated From The French of M. Bion, Chief Instrument Maker &c . / A Supplement to The English Translation of Mr. Bion's Construction and Use of Mathematical Instruments.

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First English edition translated by Edmund Stone and bound with the 1758 supplement which is paginated continously. Folio (34.5 x 23.5cm). 'The Traite gives a fairly complete list of instruments normally constructed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century.'- DSB. 'A very excellent & esteemed work.'- Lowndes. pp.viii,264;[4],265-325,[1]. With a total of 30 folding copper plates, 26 in the main section & 4 in the supplement. Four quires (16pp.) of text at the rear of the main work browned, as is common with this work & indicating the use of differing paper-stock. The first title with a few marks, some occasional unobtrusive light browing/foxing to a few plates & some text leaves, but a pleasant copy in contemporary full calf, neatly re-backed to style with label, gilt. The boards with a few light scuffs. Period engraved armorial bookplate of Jos.Townsend Esq. Vg. [DSB II, 132; Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica 406/7; Roller & Goodman I, 118; Lowndes 206; Baillie 145; Graesse I, 428].

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The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments. Translated From The French of M. Bion, Chief Instrument Maker &c . / A Supplement to The English Translation of Mr. Bion's Construction and Use of Mathematical Instruments.

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London: Printed by H.W. for John Senex, at the Globe, over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street &c.

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1723

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