VLACQ, Adriaan.

Name: VLACQ, Adriaan.
Brand: Sokol Books Ltd
SKU: L3021b
Price: 2250.00 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Sokol Books Ltd. Canon Triangulorum Logarithmicus, Das ist: Künstliche Logaritmische Tafeln der Sinuum, Tangentium, und Secantium.

£2,250.00

Augsburg, durch Andream Aperger, 1631.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 95 unnumbered ll., wanting terminal blank. Roman and Gothic letter, logarithmic tables. T-p within typographical border, typographic ornament. Woodcut diagram at end, typographical and woodcut tailpieces. A few ll. yellowed. 15 with small printing error touching a few numbers. A very good copy in original vellum over boards, gilt, yapp edges, armorial supralibros with goat rampant rising from flames within tooled border, cornerpieces, initials M.T.K. dated 1635, all gilt, remains of clasps, edges stained blue, rear cover lightly inkspotted. Booklabel of Erwin Tomash to front pastedown. In folding box.

First edition of this very rare set of convenient, pocket-sized logarithmic tables by the Dutch publisher of mathematical tables Adriaan Vlacq (1600-67), applying the logarithmic tables published in his Arithmetica logarithmica of 1628, which had extended the English mathematician Henry Briggs's (1561-1630) tables of 1624 to include numbers 1 to 100,000 to 10 decimal places, to trigonometrical functions. It contains tables of logarithmic sines, tangents and secants. The geometrical diagram at the end is entitled 'Mysterium Astronomicum'. It was published with (but evidently also issued separately from) Johann Faulhaber's Ingenieurs-Schul of 1630, since the errata for that work appear at the end of this vol.

The thick vellum slightly patterned in the manner of pigskin suggests a Central or Eastern European binding, possibly Bohemia-Moravia, or more likely Poland-Lithuania. Unfortunately we have not succeeded in identifying the arms or monogram.

OCLC notes Columbia, Yale and Wisconsin only in the US.

Tomash & Williams V23. Hoogendoorn Vlacq 04.1. BM STC C17 Germ. V477. USTC 2112722.

L3021b