CATALOGUE. 147
Signatures. As in 1616 edition 105 leaves + A, in eight (commencing with A3 and ending with A 10), = 113 leaves.
Paging. As in 1616 edition 210 pages + 16 numbered = 226.
Libraries. Un. Ed.; Un. Gl. (2); Roy. Soc. Lon.; Bodl. Oxf.; Un. Camb.; Trin. Col. Camb.;
The Wonderful|Canon Of Logarithms|or the|First Table Of Logarithms|with a full description of their ready use and easy| application, both in plane and spherical trigono-|metry, as also in all mathematical|calculations.|Invented and published by|John Napier,|Baron of Merchiston, etc., a native of Scotland, a.d. 1614.|Re-translated from the Latin text, and enlarged with a table of|hyperbolic logarithms to all numbers from 1 to 1201.| By Herschell Filipowski.
Published for the Editor|By W. H. Lizars|3 St. James’ Square, Edinburgh.|1857.|
16°. Size 518 x 378 inches.a11, Title.a12, blank.a21, “This edition is inscribed to William Thomas Thomson, Esq.,.…”a22, blank. A3, pp. v and vi, Dedication to Prince Charles, signed “John Nepair.”a4, pp. vii. and viii., The Author's preface. a51–a62, pp. ix-xii, “The Preface To The Reader By Henry Briggs.”a71–b12, pp. xiii-xviii, “Translator’s Preface.”b21, p. xix, Notes. b22, Errata. A11–B42, pp. 1–24, Book. I. B42–F41, pp. 24–71, Book II.F42, “Note to Table II. by the Translator.”A11–F62, 92 pages, “Table I., Napier’s Logarithms of Sines.”, the title occupies the first page, the last is blank, and the table occupies the intervening 90.F71–G82, 20 pages, “Table II., Napier’s Logarithms to Numbers, called also Hyperbolic Logarithms, from 1.01 to 1200.”, on first page is the title, then follow the table occupying 18 pages, and on the last page is printed “END” within an ornamental device.
Signatures. [a] in 8 + b in 2, + A, B, C and E in eights + F in four + A to G in eights = 102 leaves.
Paging. xx numbered + 72 numbered + 112 = 204 pages.
The numbers and logarithms in Table I. are those of the Canon of 1614, each divided by 10,000,000, so that the logarithms are strictly to base e−1. The Admonitio at the end of the Table is wanting. The logarithms in Table II. are to base e.
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