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FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, diagrams in the text, first and last leaves slightly browned (offsetting from acidic flyleaves), pp. [xi], 239, [1, Errata and ads], 8vo, uncut in early to mid-twentieth-century cloth backed boards, trifle worn, good. A scarce work by Charles Hutton (17371823), English mathematician and professor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich who penned the present work for the benefit of his pupiles. 'Although Invention was not my immediate object, yet throughout the whole there will be found many things that are new' (Preface). (ESTC T53064).