Opera Quaedam Reliqua

Robert Simson; James Clow

[Glasgow] Glasguae : In aedibus academicis, excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1776

Quarto.  Bound in contemporary leather spine over marbled boards. Rebacked. Edges speckled red. Pages are clean and unmarked. Collation: [6], x, [2], 594; 34, [2], 33, [1]; 23, [1] pages. Woodcut diagrams in text. First edition of this posthumous edition of the unpublished works of Robert Simson (1687-1768), Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University.  According to Gaskell, the engraved portrait is rarely found, it is lacking in this copy. Ref:  Gaskell, The Foulis Press, 600.   Half-title: 'Roberti Simson, M.D. Opera quaedam geometrica post mortem ejus impensis Philippi comitis Stanhope impressa.'.   Contents: I: Apolloni pergaei de sectione determinata libri ii. Restituti duobus insuper libris aucti. II: Porismatum liber, quo doctrinam hanc veterum geometrarum ab oblivione vindicare, et ad captum hodiernorum adumbrare constitum est. III: De Logarithmis liber. IV: De limitibus quantitatum et rationum, fragmentum. V: Appendix pauca continens problemata ad illustrandam praecipue veterum geogetrarum analysin.