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              A geometrical Practise, named Pantometria, diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by perspectiue glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an whole region: framed by Leonard Digges gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a mathematicall treatise of the fiue regulare Platonicall bodies, and their Metamorphosis or transformation into fiue other equilater vniforme solides Geometricall, of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned of by any geometricians.
              GB 2014 WS-01-BUS-PRS/1/12c · Item · 1571
              Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

              Illustration on title page is coloured.

               Digges, Leonard,
              A Fragment on Government
              GB 2014 WS-01-GRE-VII/iv/19 · Item · 1776
              Part of Westminster School's Archive and Collections

              First edition of Bentham's first published work, a radical critique of the theoretical foundations of Blackstone's Commentaries and the first statement of the principle of utility underlying Bentham's system of thought.

               Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832