England's Interest: or, The Gentleman and Farmer's Friend. Shewing . . . How Land May be Improved . . . How to Make Cyder . . . Goose-berry, Mul-berry, and Birch wines, as Strong and Wholesome as French and Spanish Wines . . by MOORE, JONAS - 1721

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New York: DAW Books, 1996. Book. Illus. by Vincent Di Fate;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. (vi) 320 pp. DAW Collectors Book 1014. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; store stamped. Wraparound cover art by Vincent di Fate. This anthology contains: I Was a Teenage Boycrazy Blob by Nina Kiriki Hoffman; Plan 10 from Inner Space by Karl Edward Wagner; Talkin' Trailer Trash by Edward Bryant; 10585 by Sean A. Moore; Big Bust at Herbert Hoover High by Jay R. Bonansinga; Tuesday Weld Sunday Services by Rex Miller; Die Baby Die Die Die by Dan Perez; The Yellers of Their Eyes by Tia Travis; Underground Atlanta by Gregory Nicoll; The Morning of August 18th by Ed Gorman; The Thing from Lovers' Lane by Nancy A. Collins; Jungle J.D. by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Blood on Satan's Harley by Gary Jonas; Bullets Can't Stop It by Wayne Allen Sallee; Race with the Devil by Randy Fox; The Good the Bad and the Danged by Adam Troy-Castro; Frightfully Huge Woman by Robert… Read More

London: J.G. for Nath. Brook, 1660. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition 1660. 8vo. This edition scarcer on the market than the first. Full title : Moor's arithmetick in two books. The first treating of the vulgar arithmetick... The second of arithmetick in species or algebra... To which are added two treatises: 1. A new contemplation geometrical upon the... ellipsis. 2. The two first books of Mydorgius his conical sections, analized by... W. Oughtred, Englished and completed with cuts (A canon of the squares and cubes of all numbers under 1000...). London: J.G. for Nath. Brook, 1660This copy lacking the general title, portrait frontis and 2 folding plates. The text is otherwise complete and 5 folding engraved plates are present with one of them loose. The precise collation is :Three blanks to front and to rear, the first and last excised, the others all with extensive contemporary mathematical annotations in ink.Title ("Algebra Arithmetick")Title ("Contemplationes… Read More

London: Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St.Paul's Church-yard, 1685 First edition. Hardcover Book. Original or very early binding in full brown leather, with no title, and incised border lines to front and back covers. Title page, A3 (contents), 81pp, 15.5 x 10cm. The title page states: 'With a large map of the said Level, as Drained, Surveyed & Described by Sir Jonas Moore..' : note that this copy lacks this map. Otherwise a Good+ copy of a rare and very early book on the surveying and draining of the Fens, that appears to have belonged at a later date to Lord Milton of Peterborough, as a plain bookplate (Milton, Peterborough), is pasted inside the front cover (this partly obscures the Bookseller's text to the Reader which is printed on the front pastedown). The probable original owner's name is inscribed on the back of the title page: Geo. Underwood, 1699; he has also inscribed his name in the margins of three pages in 1699 and 1704, with a correction to the text… Read More

London: Printed for Robert Harford, 1681. or, Useful Practices In Arithmetick, Geometry, And Astronomy, Geography And Navigation, Embattelling, And Quartering Of Armies, Fortification And Gunnery, Gauging And Dyalling. Explaining The Logarithms, With New Indices; Nepair'S Rods Or Bones Making Of Movements, And The Application Of Pendulums; With The Projection Of The Sphere For An Universal Dyal, &c. By Sir Jonas Moore, Knt. late surveyor general of his Majesty's Ord'nance. The Second Edition, with any large Additions. London: Printed for Robert Harford, 1681. [With separate title-page but continuous collation]: A Table Of Artificial Sines And Tangents, For Every Degree And Minute Of The Quadrant, Fitted To The Size Of The Logarithms. London: Printed for Robert Harford, 1679. Second and much expanded edition. Two parts in one twelvemo volume (5 x 2 7/8 inches; 125 x 73 mm). 24, 120, [178], [2, advertisements] pp. With one engraved folding plate (often lacking) and six engraved plates in the text,… Read More