[NICHOLSON, PETER]. A Popular Course of Pure and Mixed Mathematics, for the use of Schools and Students. Including: Algebra, Euclid's Elements, Differential Calculus, Fluxions, Conic Sections, Doctrine of Curves, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Land Surveying, Gauging, Perspective, Dialling, Spherics, Mechanics, Dynamics, Hyrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, Physics, Astronomy, with Tables of Logarithms, and Numerous Questions for Exercise. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1822.
First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Thick octavo (22cm x 13cm x 6.5cm). Pp. xxxii, 777, 23, 72, 16. English text. Bound in full leather. 26 plates (one folding). Numerous diagrams and tables in the text. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Rebacked retaining the original boards. Slight rubbing to extremities. Contents complete and largely well-preserved with some light toning and previous owner scribblings to endpapers. Scarce.
