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Author	Napier, John, 1550-1617.
Title	Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio : ejusque usus, in utraque trigonometria; ut etiam in omni logistica mathematica, amplissimi, facillimi, & expeditissimi explicatio / authore ac inventore, Ioanne Nepero, Barone Merchistonii, &c. Scoto.
Publication Info.	Edinburgi : ex officinâ Andreae Hart bibliopôlae, M. DC. XIV. [1614]

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Winthrop	Win 177	IN LIBRARY

Description	8 unnumbered pages, 57 pages, 91 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Note	The roman numeral date is made with turned C's.
	Illustrated t.p.; headpiece; initials.
	Leaves I and m, as originally printed, formed a half-sheet.
	Pages [58]-[148] contain mathematical tables.
	Signatures: A-H⁴ I¹ (=m2) a-l⁴ m² (-m2).
Indexed In:	STC (2nd ed.), 18349
	ESTC S110079
Local Note	Library copy from the Winthrop Collection. Imperfect: title page mutilated. Inscriptions on title page and t.p. verso: 155 in pencil, No 360 in ink.
Subject	Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.
	Logarithms -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author	Hart, Andro, -1621, bookseller.
	Winthrop, John, 1606-1676, former owner.
	Winthrop Collection (New York Society Library) ZNS
Added Title	Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio

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