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Wm. Beveridge Institutionum Chronologicarum 1669

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Title: Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II
Author: Beveregium, Guilelm [Beveridge, William]
Description: [viii], 259, [4] pp. (4to) 7½x5½, disbound with a portion of the period calf spine remaining. First Edition. Beveridge was an expert on the scholarly languages and his Institutiones chronologicarum was the result of twelve years study. The second section, 'Arithmetices chronologicae', besides calendrical calculations, gives an account of Roman, Hebrew, Sumarian, Greek, Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopian number systems, with typeset characters in tables and in the text. Wing B2095
Place Published: London
Publisher Name: Thomas Roycroft
Date Published: 1669

Covers and blanks lacking, spine chipped; browning and light chipping to a few leaves at the front and rear without loss of text; occasional marginalia in an early hand; else very good and worthy of restoration.

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