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Tables for Renewing and Purchasing of leases. As also For Renewing and Purchasing of lives. With other Necessary Tables For Computing of interest, either Simple of Compound
by MORRIS, Gael
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed, and Sold by J. Brotherton, 1735. iv, 48, [2], 92pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. A trifle rubbed. Title page lightly browned, later inked ownership inscription of Henry Lonsdall to recto of FFEP. Inked inscription to recto of p[1]: 'Examd. G. Morris'. The sole edition of the first published work of Gael Morris, of whom little is known; a ready-reckoner providing tables for computing interest the renewal and purchase of lease and annuities. Morris has only one other work to his name the (equally scarce) posthumously published Astronomical tables of the sun and moon... (London, 1775?). The presence of the author's inscription is clearly explained in the preface: 'The Tables of Simple Interest, I am of Opinion, will be found to be more exact than any hitherto published; but should they yet be imperfect...I will return the Money to any Person that shall shew me an Error of a Penny in any Book attested to be examined by me'. ESTC records copies at six locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Institute of Chartered Accountants, NT, Oxford, and Senate House), and a further three in North America (California, Harvard, and Pennsylvania). ESTC T93736.. First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ21860
- Title
- Tables for Renewing and Purchasing of leases. As also For Renewing and Purchasing of lives. With other Necessary Tables For Computing of interest, either Simple of Compound
- Author
- MORRIS, Gael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Printed, and Sold by J. Brotherton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1735
- Keywords
- Mathematics
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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