Pennsylvania Logarithms .- Directions for using the
Pennsylvania Logarithms .- Directions for using the Table of Logarithms, manuscript, 17pp. text, 36pp. tables, drop-head title, ink stain obscuring a few letters of this, water-stained, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary drab wrappers, short tear to upper wrappers, water-stained, 8vo, [Pennsylvania], [c.1750].
⁂ With an interesting Pennsylvania provenance. Loosely inserted is a ms. docket made out to Paul Preston as Treasurer of Bucks County, PA, for payments to two paupers, dated August, 1770. Paul Preston's father Amor Preston 'was one of the earliest settlers in Penn's Colony...He became very friendly with the aborigines, and when his house in the woods was burned he was persuaded by the Indians to remove with them further back in the woods, near their Indian town of Hollecunk, in the Buckingham valley...The two Preston boys, Nathan and Paul were reared among the Indians and learned to speak their language before their own...Paul Preston...became an eminent mathematician and surveyor as well as an accomplished linguist...and was Treasurer of Bucks County, 1768-71' (Davis, History of Bucks County, p.666).
Provenance: The Preston family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, purchased from the estate.
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Pennsylvania Logarithms .- Directions for using the Table of Logarithms, manuscript, 17pp. text, 36pp. tables, drop-head title, ink stain obscuring a few letters of this, water-stained, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary drab wrappers, short tear to upper wrappers, water-stained, 8vo, [Pennsylvania], [c.1750].
⁂ With an interesting Pennsylvania provenance. Loosely inserted is a ms. docket made out to Paul Preston as Treasurer of Bucks County, PA, for payments to two paupers, dated August, 1770. Paul Preston's father Amor Preston 'was one of the earliest settlers in Penn's Colony...He became very friendly with the aborigines, and when his house in the woods was burned he was persuaded by the Indians to remove with them further back in the woods, near their Indian town of Hollecunk, in the Buckingham valley...The two Preston boys, Nathan and Paul were reared among the Indians and learned to speak their language before their own...Paul Preston...became an eminent mathematician and surveyor as well as an accomplished linguist...and was Treasurer of Bucks County, 1768-71' (Davis, History of Bucks County, p.666).
Provenance: The Preston family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, purchased from the estate.
