Catoptricae et dioptricae sphaericae elementa.
Dr David Gregory (1659-1708)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3187581
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 99, [1] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 4158. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Mr. J: P: in printers Court in Printers Street at Mrs. Saudfords [or Sandfords] / West...[illegible]". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf (in same hand as on pastedown): "Tempest Slings"[?], "2s: 6d", "Tempt: Slingar 1704"[?], plus a number of mathematical equations. Binding: late seventeenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges.
Makers and roles
Dr David Gregory (1659-1708)