A proposal about printing A treatise of algebra, historical and practical written by the Reverend and learned Dr. John Wallis (Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford), containing not only a history, but an institution of algebra, according to several methods hitherto in practice; with many additions of his own.

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Place of publication conjectured by the cataloger; date of publication from Wing. "A treatise of algebra, both historical and practical" was published in 1685. On p. [4]: "For the ease of the subscribers, they may pay in their money either to Richard Davis in Oxford, or to any of the booksellers under-named, .. " followed by a list of nine London and six provincial booksellers, and a professor of mathematics in Dublin. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.