A mathematical compendium; or, Useful practices in arithmetick
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630; Stephenson, N. (Nicholas), active 1674-1680, editor; Harford, Robert, active 1677-1681, bookseller
Edition: The second edition, with many large additions.
Publisher: printed for Robert Harford, at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange
Published: 1681
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Ready-reckoners; Early works to 1800; Logarithms
Other titles: Table of artificial sines and tangents for every degree and minute of the quadrant, fitted to the size of the logarithms.
Notes: Signatures: [superscript pi]A¹² A-K⁶ ²B-H¹² I⁶.

Dedication signed: Robert Harford.

"A table of artificial sines and tangents, for every degree and minute of the quadrant, fitted to the size of the logarithms." has separate title page dated 1679 on leaf ²D10r; register is continuous.

With penultimate advertisement leaf; last leaf is blank.

The first edition "collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore by Nicholas Stephenson" was published in 1674. cf. DNB.

Rare Book copy: Contemporary reversed sheep binding with morocco lettering piece.

Rare Book copy: Interleaved with extensive manuscript annotations and diagrams by an early owner.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M2573

English short title catalogue, R269