1. [Euclid / Euklid] Simson, Robert.

The Elements of Euclid ; Viz. The First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. The Errors, by which Theon, or Others, have long ago vitiated these Books, are corrected, And some of Euclid’s Demonstrations are restored. Also “The Book of Euclid’s Data”, in like manner corrected. By Robert Stimson, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. The Sixteenth Edition, carefully revised and improved. To which is added, “A Treatise on the Construction of The Trigonometrical Canon ; And a Concise Account of Lograithms”.

Sixteenth Edition. Three Volumes in One (complete). London, Printed for F.Wingrave and others, 1814. Octavo. VII, [1], 528 pages plus two plates 9as called for): 1. A Fold-Out-Plate of “Plane Trigonometry” bound in at page 484 and 2. A Fold-Ot-Plate “Spherical Trigonometry” bound in at the rear of the Volume. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Poor condition of the binding, boards nearly detached and the overall condition with stronger signs of wear. But this book is mostly interesting for the abundance of doodles by 19th-century Oxford – student Daniel Conner, from Ireland. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.