Second edition. 8vo. [viii], 313 pp. Contemporary panelled sprinkled calf, spine with four single raised bound outlined in blind, second panel lettered in gilt with gilt floral motif on red morocco label, red and yellow speckled edges (a few faint isolated spots, contents otherwise clean and fresh; a fine copy). [Oxford], Leon. Lichfield, 1702.
A very fine copy of this early edition of an influential and frequently reprinted textbook by the mathematician John Wallis (1616-1703), Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. “In Institutio logicae (1687) Wallis put forward influential views concerning ways of treating singular terms as if they were general and conditional statements” (ODNB).
Provenance: bookplate of Lord Sandys (1726-1797), from his library at Ombersley Court in Worcestershire.
