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140 CATALOGUE.

respectively. The reprint, which will be found on pages 475 to 624 of the sixth volume, gives the Descriptio and the Canon in full, with the Admonitio on its last page.

Graesse states that the edition of 1614 was “Réimpr. sous la même date dans les Transact. of the Roy. Soc.” He probably refers to this reprint as Baron Maseres was a member of the Royal Society.

Libraries. Adv. Ed.; etc.

Mirifici|Logarithmo-|rvm Canonis|Descriptio,|Ejusque usus, in utraque Trigonome-|tria; vt etiam in omni Logistica Ma-|thematica, amplissimi, facillimi,|& expeditissimi explicatio.|Accesservnt Opera Posthvma;|Primo, Mirifici ipsius canonis constructio, & Logarith-|morum ad naturales ipsorum numeros habitudines,|Secundò, Appendix de alia, eáque præstantiore Loga-|rithmorum specie construenda.|Tertiò, Propositiones quædam eminentissimæ, ad Trian-|gula sphærica mira facilitate resolvenda.|Autore ac Inventore Ioanne Nepero,| Barone Merchistonii, &c. Scoto.|

Edinbvrgi,|Excvdebat Andreas Hart.|Anno 1619.|

[The ornamental part of the Title-page is the same as in 1614, the type only being altered.]

4°. Size 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches. [See note.]

Mirifici|Logarithmorvm|Canonis Con-|strvctio;|Et eorum ad naturales ipsorum numeros habitudines;|Vnà Cvm|Appendice, de aliâ eâque præstantiore Loga-|rithmorum specie condenda.|Qvibvs Accessere|Propositiones ad triangula sphærica faciliore calculo resolvenda:|Vnà cum Annotationibus aliquot doctissimi D. Henrici|Briggii, in eas & memoratam appendicem.|Authore & Inventore Ioanne Nepero, Barone|Merchistonii, &c. Scoto.|

Edinbvrgi,|Excudebat Andreas Hart.|Anno Domini 1619,|

A11,Title. A12, blank.A2, 2 pages, “Lectori Matheseos Studioso S.”, signed “Robertus Nepervs, F.”A31–E41, pp. 5–39, “Mirifici Logarithmorvm Canonis Constroctio; (Qui Et Tabvla Artificialis ab autore deinceps appellatur) eorumque ad naturales ipsorum numeros habitudines.”E42–F31, pp. 40–45, “Appendix” containing “De alia eaque præstantiore Logarithmorvm specie construenda; in qua scilicet, vni-

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