Research Catalog

Title

A pocket book : containing severall choice collections in arithmetick, astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gageing / by John Seller ...

Author

Seller, John, active 1658-1698.

Publication

[London] : And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping and at his shoop [sic] ... in Cornhill, London, [1680?]

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Details

Description

[2], 40 p., [94] leaves of plates : ill., [7] maps; 14 cm. (8vo)

Donor/Sponsor

• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 3037.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

• Almanacs, English > Early works to 1800
• Mathematics > Practice > England
• Astronomy > Early works to 1800

Note

• Signatures: [pi]1 (engraved), A-E⁴.
• In this edition, the lunar table is dated 1680-1700.
• Ten of the plates are double. Two plates have volvelles.

Indexed In (note)

• Variant of Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
• Variant of Sabin

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6225

LCCN

04008340

OCLC

19081477

Author

Seller, John, active 1658-1698.

Title

A pocket book : containing severall choice collections in arithmetick, astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gageing / by John Seller ...

Imprint

[London] : And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping and at his shoop [sic] ... in Cornhill, London, [1680?]

Indexed In:

Variant of Wing (2nd ed., 1994) S2480C

Variant of Sabin 79029

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6225 [LHS 3037; atlas cases]