| Description | Two manuscript volumes [1771]: Tables de Logarithmes depuis 1 jusqu'a 250,000 (tables of logarithms from 1 to 250,000, worked out to seven decimal places). With an entry from Maynard's Sale Catalogue, 1854 (vol 1, f 3r), and an entry detailing its provenance as executed by a 'Cur de Campagne nomm Robert et un Commis de la Marine nomm Cartaud' (Robert, a priest, and Cartaud, a marine clerk) (vol 1, f 1v). |
| CustodialHistory | Once in the possession of Lalande and later of Dr Scott. A letter from the Revd Th[omas] J Hussey to Dr J Scott is pasted on folio 5r of the first volume. The manuscript was sold at the sale of Scott's library by Sotheby & Co in 1850, and must soon afterwards have come into the possession of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 1131. Other pressmark: 141.f.9-10. |