Memoria Technica: Or, A New Method of Artificial Memory, GREY (Richard).
Applied to, and exemplified in Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy. Also Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, and Measures, &c. With Tables proper to the respective Sciences, and Memorial Lines adapted to each Table. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improved.
Title printed in red and black. Woodcut ornaments,
8vo. [179 x 115 x 20 mm]. [2]ff, xvi, [viii], 159, [29] pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the coves with a gilt double fillet border. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands flanked with gilt double fillets, red sprinkled edges. (Lacking front free endleaf and rear pastedown, a little worn around the edges).
London: printed [by William Bowyer] for John Stagg in Westminster Hall; and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater Noster Row, F. Clay, and D. Brown without Temple Bar, 1737
A few marks and signs of use but a very good copy. Early ink ownership inscription at the head of the title "Morshead. E. Coll. Exon" - i.e. an undergraduate named Morshead from Exeter College, Oxford.
Previously published in 1730 and 1732. 12 editions were published by 1799, including Dublin, Exeter and Wolverhampton printings.
Stock no. ebc7952
Applied to, and exemplified in Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy. Also Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, and Measures, &c. With Tables proper to the respective Sciences, and Memorial Lines adapted to each Table. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improved.
Title printed in red and black. Woodcut ornaments,
8vo. [179 x 115 x 20 mm]. [2]ff, xvi, [viii], 159, [29] pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the coves with a gilt double fillet border. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands flanked with gilt double fillets, red sprinkled edges. (Lacking front free endleaf and rear pastedown, a little worn around the edges).
London: printed [by William Bowyer] for John Stagg in Westminster Hall; and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater Noster Row, F. Clay, and D. Brown without Temple Bar, 1737
A few marks and signs of use but a very good copy. Early ink ownership inscription at the head of the title "Morshead. E. Coll. Exon" - i.e. an undergraduate named Morshead from Exeter College, Oxford.
Previously published in 1730 and 1732. 12 editions were published by 1799, including Dublin, Exeter and Wolverhampton printings.
Stock no. ebc7952
Applied to, and exemplified in Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy. Also Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, and Measures, &c. With Tables proper to the respective Sciences, and Memorial Lines adapted to each Table. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improved.
Title printed in red and black. Woodcut ornaments,
8vo. [179 x 115 x 20 mm]. [2]ff, xvi, [viii], 159, [29] pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the coves with a gilt double fillet border. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands flanked with gilt double fillets, red sprinkled edges. (Lacking front free endleaf and rear pastedown, a little worn around the edges).
London: printed [by William Bowyer] for John Stagg in Westminster Hall; and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater Noster Row, F. Clay, and D. Brown without Temple Bar, 1737
A few marks and signs of use but a very good copy. Early ink ownership inscription at the head of the title "Morshead. E. Coll. Exon" - i.e. an undergraduate named Morshead from Exeter College, Oxford.
Previously published in 1730 and 1732. 12 editions were published by 1799, including Dublin, Exeter and Wolverhampton printings.
Stock no. ebc7952