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Author Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Title Pleasure with profit : consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical : published to recreate ingenious spirits, and to induce them to make further scrutiny into these (and the like) sublime sciences, and to divert them from following such vices, to which youth (in this age) are so much inclin'd / by William Leybourn, Philomathes. To this work is also annext, A treatise of algebra : according to the late improvements, applied to numerical questions and geometry : with a new series for the speedy extraction of roots, as also a converging series for all manner of adsected equations / by R. Sault ...

Imprint London : Printed for Richard Baldwin, and John Dunton, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, and at the Raven in the Poultrey, 1694.

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Title Page		 Plate at 86
Plate at 86 		Title Page Divisional
Title Page Divisional
Location Call Number Status
 Stauffer Rare Book Room  QA95 .L493 1694  LIB USE ONLY
Description [2], vi, [4], 56, 86, 31, [1], 24, 63, [1], 28, 13, 2-10, 9, [1], 11, [1], 26, [4], 52 p. : ill., [2] folded leaves of plates ; 32 cm.
Note Signatures: A2-A3, A2-G2, A2-I, A2-D2, A2-C2, A2-H2, A2-N, A-O.
Each recreation paged separately.
Second work has special t. p.: "A new treatise of algebra : according to the latest improvements : apply'd to numerical questions and geometry, with a converging series for all manner of adfected equations / by Richard Sault ..."
Advertisement for author's school on p. [4] at beginning.
Spine title: "Pleasure with Profit. Leybourne."
Indexed In Wing (2nd ed.) L1931.
Neville, R. G., Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, volume 2, page 62 CHF #F
Gift Roy G. Neville; purchase; 2004.
Subject(s) Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematical recreations -- Early works to 1800.
Algebra -- Early works to 1800.
Alternate Author Sault, Richard, -1702. New treatise of algebra.
Baldwin, Richard, -1698, bookseller.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733, bookseller.
Related Title A new treatise of algebra.