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132 CATALOGUE. Rabdologi|Sev Nvmerationis|per Virgulas libri duo:|Cum Appendice de expe-|ditissimo Mvltiplicationis|promptvario.|Quibus accessit & Arithme-|tic Localis Liber unus.|Authore & Inventore Ioanne|Nepero, Barone Merchisto-|nij, &c. Scoto.| Lygdvni.|Typis Petri Rammasenij.||

12°. Size $5 1⁄2$ x $3 1⁄4$ inches.&dagger;1$1$, Title. &dagger;1$2$, blank. &dagger;2$1$–&dagger;4$2$, 6 pages, Dedication to Alex. Seton, Lord Dunfermline.&dagger;5$1$, Verses.&dagger;5$2$–&dagger;6$2$, 3 pages, Elenchvs Capitvm, with the 2 lines at end, A$1$–B9$2$, pp. 1–42, Rabdologi, Lib. I. B10$1$–D6$2$, pp. 43–84, Lib. II.D7$1$–E3$2$, pp. 85–102, Mult. prompituario.E4$1$–G4$1$, pp. 103–139, Arith. Localis.G4$2$–G6$2$, 5 pages, all blank.

Signatures. &dagger; + in six + A to E in twelves + F and G in sixes = 78 leaves.

Paging. 12 + 139 numbered + 5 = 156 pages.

There are 9 folding diagrams to face pages 49, 51, 59, 81, 94, 97, 98, 115, and 117; those facing pages 94, 97, 98, and 117, correspond to the 4 folding plates of the 1617 edition, the others are tables which in 1617 were printed in the text.

The numbering of the pages, though somewhat indistinct, seems to be correct throughout. In printing the signatures, however, C7 is numbered in error C6, and E3 has no signature printed.

Libraries. Un. Ed.; Un. Ab.; Un. St And.; Greenock; Bodl. Oxf.; Chetham’s Manch.; Trin. Col. Dub.; Kön. Berlin; Un. Breslau; Stadt, Frankfurt; K. Hof u. Staats. München; Astor, New York;

Rabdologi|Sev Nvmerationis|per Virgulas libri duo:|Cum Appendice de expe-|ditissimo Mvltiplicationis|promptvario. | Quibus accessit & Arithmeti-|c Localis Liber vnus|Authore & Inventore Ioanne Nepero Barone Merchisto-|nij, &c. Scoto.|Lvgd. Batavorvm. | Typis Petri Rammasenij. | M. DC: XXVIII.|

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