8vo. xv, [1], 334pp, [2]. With a half-title, three engraved folding plates, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf. Housed in modern tan cloth clamshell case. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Recent book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP.

A revised and expanded edition of Scottish natural philosopher James Ferguson's (1710-1776) mathematical tables relating to applied sciences such as annuities, astronomy, chronology, geography, and weights and measures.

From the recently dispersed library of Erwin Tomash (1921-2012), American engineer recognised for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. His library consisted of over 3,000 books and manuscripts relevant to the history of computation, from medieval and renaissance works on arithmetic, finger-reckoning and the abacus, to the birth in the twentieth century of theoretical and practical computer science under Alan Turing.