Mathematics - Presentation Copy, Scottish Imprint, Leslie (J...

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Mathematics - Presentation Copy, Scottish Imprint, Leslie (John, F.R.S.E.), The Philosophy of Arithmetic; Exhibiting a Progressive View of the Theory and Practice of Calculation, with an Enlarged Table of the Products of Numbers Under One Hundred, first edition, inscribed presentation copy from the author, Edinburgh: Printed by Abernethy & Walker [...], 1817, pp: iv, 240, fold-out 10-fold multiplication table, contemporary boards as issued, 8vo, [1]

Provenance: ? James Stodart F.R.S.L. (1760–1823)?, the London cutler and scientist, whom in 1818 began a series of experiments with Michael Faraday on the alloys of steel. Contemporary ink MS presentation inscription to recto pastedown: To James Stodart Esqr., with the Author's best respects.