COCKER, Edward.

Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick. Wherein is shewed the Nature and Use of Decimal Fractions in the usual Rules of Arithmetick, and the Mensuration of Plains and Solids. Together with Tables of Interest and Rebate for the Valuation of Leases and Annuities... Whereunto is added, His Artifical Arithmetick, shewing the Genesis or Fabrick of the Logarithms... also His Algebraical Arithmetick, containing the Doctrine of Composing and Resolving an Equation... Perused, Corrected and Published, by John Hawkins...

London: Printed for Richard Wellington, 1713. Fourth edition, 8vo, xvi, 192, 177-436 pp, with some mispagination. Title page with loss and chipping to edges, not affecting text or borders, and with some careful repairs to the verso, leaves browned and somewhat cockled throughout, final leaf with an old repair. Neatly bound in 20th century gilt titled brown buckram. Originally published 1685. ESTC lists six copies of this edition in the UK and five in North America; none of the early editions of this work are common. Item #28382

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