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when it was found that the whole work could not be issued in that year, the date was altered to m. dc. x x., and a few copies may have been printed before the alteration. The only copy which we have found is in the Bibliothèque Nationale. The volume contains the three parts; the Tabula has M42 blank; the Constructio has on its title-page the usual date of 1620, and has on H41 the Extraict the same as in the Advocates’ Library copy mentioned in the preceding entry.
Library. Nat. Paris;
Arcanvm|Svppvtationis|Arithmetice:|Quo Doctrina & Praxis|Sinvvm ac Triangvlorvm|mirè abbreuiatur.|Opvs Cvriosis Omnibvs,|Geometris præsertim, & Astronomis|vtilissimum.|Inuentore, nobilissimo Barone Merchistonio|Scoto-Britanno.|
Lvgdvni,|Apud Ioan. Anton. Hvgvetan,|& Mare. Ant. Ravavd.|m. dc. lviii. |
[Printed in black and red.]
This issue is evidently not a new edition, but the remainder of the edition of 1620 with the following alterations. In the Descriptio signature A has been reprinted with title-page as above, and several other less important alterations. The Tabula is unaltered, still retaining the name of Barth. Vincent on the title-page. The Constructio has the first two leaves cut out so that the first page is numbered 5. The Extraict is often wanting on M22 of the Tabula, but in the copies examined is printed on H41 of the Constructio, exactly as in the Advocates’ Library copy of 1620, the name of the work in the Extraict being that on the first title-page of the 1620 edition, and not that used in the title-page given above.
Libraries, Adv. Ed.; Un. Gl.; Kön. Berlin; Un. Breslau; Un. Halle; Stadt. Zürich;
2. Editions in English of the Descriptio Alone.
A|Description|Of The Admirable|Table Of Loga-|rithmes:|With|A Declaration Of|The Most Plentifvl, Easy,|and speedy
