HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, W, 785 



15586 WING (Vincent) Ephemerides of the Celestial Motions for XIII Years, 1659-1671, 

 diligently calculated according to the Doctrine of Aatronomia Instaurata, and applied to the 

 Horizon of the most famous City of London, with a brief Introduction [pp. 156] for the Use 

 thereof, with v;oodcuts and diagrams, sm. 4to. FINE COPY" iti contemporary calf, with bookplate of 

 Lord Arundell of Wardour, and auto, of [Henry 3rd] Lord Arundell [of W ardour] on title 

 (RARE), £1. 156- R. and W. Leyhovrn, 1658 



'Wing issued ephemerides, the 'exactest' then to be had, according to John Flamsteed, who maintained 'a fair 

 correspondence ' with him.' — D. N. B. They include astrological meteorology. 



15587 : Geod^tes Practicus Redivivus : the Art of Surveying, formerly publish'd by 



Vincent Wing, now much augmented and iraprov'd ; with Appendix, shewing the whole Art of 

 Surveying by a New Instrument, called the Em peri AL Table, performing the Work of the 

 Theodolite, Circumferentor, Semi-Circle. Chard and Needle ; with the Description and Use of 

 a New Quadrant, with Supplement, Scientia Stellarum, containing new and accurate Tables 

 of the Planetary Motions, etc. etc., by John Wing, with copperplates^ and numerous diagrams, 

 folio, old panelled calf, newly and nejitly rebacked (RARE), £1. 7s 6c? 1700 



The ' Emperial Table ' was the editor's own invention, and consisted of ' a perfect plain table, an exact theodolite ani 

 circumferentor, and the peractor exactly adjusted, the needle or declinatory also fully compleated thereon, in its own 

 kind and order, which instruments are here fully compleated upon this ona instrument, without the least confusion of 

 lines or parts.' 



One of Vincent Wing's best known publications was the Olympia Domata, a semi-astrological almanack, continued for 

 over a hundr<»d years by the StAtioners' Company. 



15588 Harmonicon Cceleste : or, the Ccelestiall Harmony of the Visible World : containing, 



an absolute and entire Piece of Astronomie, wherein is succinctly handled the Trigonometricall 

 Part, generally proj)ounded, and particularly applyed to the JDiurnall Motion . . . the Second 

 Motions of the Luminaries and the other Planets, with their Eclipses, etc., grounded on the most 

 Rationall Hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best Observations, especially those 

 of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern Observators, fitted to the Meridian of London, with 

 numerous diacirams, folio, boards {stained and last I. mounted), 8* 6rf R. Leybourn, 1651 



15589 WINOATE (Edmund) AuiTHMETKiUE Made easie, the Second Book : containing a perfect 

 Method for the true Knowledge, and Practice of Artificial Arithmetique performed by 

 Logarithms : and resolving all Arithmeticall Questions by Addition and Subtraction. Together 

 with the Constructi(m and use of an Instrument called the LINE of Proportion, exhibiting the 

 Logarithm of any Number under 100000, with Appendix, resolving likewise by Addition and 

 Subtraction all Questions, that concern Equation of Time, Interest of Money, and Valuation of 

 Purchases, Leases, Annuities, and the like ; 2nd Edition, much inlarged by the Author himselfe, 

 toith 10 copperplates, 24mo. hf. calf neat {title very slightly soiled, and some II. waterstained, but 

 a REMARKABLY SOUND COPY) ; very rare, £1. 10* R. and W. Leybourn, 1652 



Wingate's Arithmetic was originally published, in two parts, in 1C30. The first part appeared in lfi50, revised by 

 John Kersey the elder, as ' Arithmetique made easie.' The above second part was reprinted for the first and last 

 time in 1652. 



15590 Arithmetick, containing a plain and familiar Method for attaining the Knowledge and 



Practice of Common Arithmetick ; 4th Edition, with Appendix, containing choice Knowledge in 

 Arithmetick, both Practical and Theoretical (pp. 243), by JOHN Kersey [the Elder], 12mo. hf. 

 bound {title wanting) ; RARE, 10* 6c? [1668] 



Both the above editions were unknown to Professor de Morgan. The earliest edition described by him is that of 1673. 

 This edition was also unknown to D. N. B. 



15591 T\VELFTH Edition, with a New Supplement, of Easie Contraction in the necessary 



Parts of Arithmetick, useful Tables of Interest and Flemish Exchanges, also a Practical 

 Mensuration, by GEORGE Shelley, sm. 8vo. contemporary calf, Qs 1708 



15592 Thirteenth Edition, with a new Supplement, by George Shelley, sm. 8vo. contemp- 

 orary panelled calf {sound copy), 6* 1713 



15593 — Eighteenth Edition, with the Additions and Emendations by John Kersey and 



George Shelley, and all the Improvements that have appeared in other Writers since their 

 Time ; also sundry others, that are entirely new, by James Dodson, with frontispiece, 8vo. old 

 calf. Is 6d 1751 



The first edition published by James Dodson, and the best of the work, bat according to Professor de Morgan, with very 

 little Wingate in it. D. N. B. mistakenly gives the date as 1753. 



15504 Nineteenth Edition [unchanged], with frontispiece, 8vo. cL, 5s 1760 



15595 Another Copy, old calf 6.? 



The last edition published. 



15596 AorAPlGMOTEXNl'A, or the CONSTRUCTION and UsE of the Logarithmeticall Tables, 



by the Helpe whereof. Multiplication is performed by Addition, Division by Substraction, the 

 Extraction of the Square Root by Bipartition, and the Cube Root by Tripartition, etc. ; finally, 

 the Golden Rule, and the Resolution of Triangles as well right lined as sphericall by Addition and 

 Substraction, first published in the French Tongue, and after translated by the .«»ame Author ; 

 3rd Edition, enlarged by the Author himself, 24mo. contemporary sheep {sound and clean copy); 

 RARE, £\. \s Miles Flesher, 1648 



First publiRhed at Paris, 1626, in French. The tables of logarithms are compiled from Henrv Brioos's. 



15597 The Use of the Rule of Proportion, in Arithmetique and Geometrie, first published in. 



the French Tongue, and now translated by the same Author; whereinto is now also inserted the 

 Construction of the same Rule, and a further Use thereof, in Questions that concern Astronomie, 

 Dialling, Geographie, Navigation, Gaging of Vessels, Military Orders, Interest, and Annuities, 

 with large folding plate of Gunter's Scale, 32uio. contemporary sheep (rare), £1. 1.? 



M. F. for P. Stephensy 1645 

 An account of Gunter's logarithmic scale, which was first published (in French) at Paris in 1624. 



