Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

279 c   (CIPHERING BOOK.) Greene, William. Well-illustrated eighteenth century manuscript ciphering book. 58 leaves of neat ink manuscript with many watercolor diagrams and stylized folkish drawings on “Pro Patria” watermarked paper, 23 blank leaves. 8vo, 8x6 1 / 4 inches, worn period reversed sheep, front cover detached; minor bleed-through of oxidized ink; bookplate of William G. Nightingale. [Cambridge, MA, 1783-1784] [800/1,200] An attractive eighteenth century manuscript manual detailing exercises in mathematics, geometry, plain- scale measurements, surveying, dialing, trigonometry, heights and distances, and navigation. Inscription from the front endpaper: “William Greene’s manuscript began April ye 12, 1783 and compleated or finished June ye 18 AD 1784 at Harvard College in Cambridge, New England. Began April 12 1783 in my junior year and finished June 18 1784 in my senior year. Sign’d Seal’d and deliver’d in presence of &c &c.” 280 c   (CIPHERING BOOKS.) Baugh- man, John B. Two illustrated nineteenth century manuscript ciphering books. Approximately 50 manuscript leaves, printed paper boards, worn; the other approximately 30 manuscript leaves, without covers. American, circa 1838 [250/350] 279 280