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HALFPENNY, William
Arithmetick and Measurement
Printed for
Richard
Ware,
London
1748
Octavo
William Halfpenny was an 18th
century architect who
published
a number of volumes on various aspects of domestic architecture and
design.
He was also
a carpenter, with a
strong
interest in the practical
considerations
of building and landscape gardening. This
rare
and curious
little book on arithmetic is both charming and informative and a
fascinating insight into the evolution of mathematics in the eighteenth
century.
Newly bound
in an eighteenth century period style of full calf, with a lightly speckled
Cambridge
panel and tooled
in gold
leaf, the book has handmade
paper
endpapers and the
original
edges have been left untouched. Housed in a leather
entry slipcase.
BKHALF.001
£950.00 |
