Sectionum conicarum libri V / auctore Roberto Simson ...

Accession number: 
PML 195281
Author: 
Simson, Robert, 1687-1768.
Published: 
Edinburgi : Apud T. & W. Ruddimannos, 1735.
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr., and on the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Fund, 2009.
Description: 
viii, 204 p. : 36 fold. plates ; 22 cm.
Binding: 
Red goatskin gilt in a characteristic Scottish herringbone design with thistle, vase, turnip and sunburst tools; gilt endpapers; gilt edges; in a box case. Possibly a presentation binding to the mathematician William Jones, who bequeathed his library to the second earl of Macclesfield.
Provenance: 
South Library bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield.
Classification: 
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