The making, description, and use of a small portable instrument for the pocket (or according to any magnitude) in forme of a mixt trapezia thus called a horizontall quadrant
Subtitle: composed and prodused soly for the benefit & use of such which are studious of mathematicall practice
By: written and delivered by Delamain, student and teacher of the mathematickes
Contributors: Leake, William, -1673, publisher; Stuart de Rothesay, Charles Stuart, Baron, 1779-1845, former owner
Publisher: printed for William Leake and are to be sold at the crowne in Fleetstreete betweene the two temple gates
Published: 1639
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Quadrants (Astronomical instruments); Surveying
Other titles: Making, description, and vse of a small portable instrument for the pocket (or according to any magnitude) in forme of a mixt trapezia thus called a horizontall quadrant
Notes: STC suggests 1639 as the date of publication; Wing suggests 1655; the final plate is dated 1637.

Signatures: Aþ́(-A)́ aþ́ B-Oþ́

The title page is an engraved plate.

A small slip, with an engraved illustration, is tipped onto the tail of O ́(p. 103).

ESTC S1883

STC (2nd ed.) 6545

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D864A

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early sheepskin with the blind stamped armorial super-ex-libris of Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay, in the center of both covers. All text block edges are sprinkled red. The binding has been repaired and varnished.