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Jedidiah Buxton.
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Published pursuant to an Act of Parliament May the 1.st 1773, by B. Killingbeck at Mrs. Totton's Mount Street Berkley Square, London,
Title area smudged. Small margins; horizontal central crease.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. A 1781 state of this print gave this biography: ''Jedediah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards''.
CS 7, state i of ii.
[Ref: 61368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Published pursuant to an Act of Parliament May the 1.st 1773, by B. Killingbeck at Mrs. Totton's Mount Street Berkley Square, London,
Title area smudged. Small margins; horizontal central crease.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. A 1781 state of this print gave this biography: ''Jedediah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards''.
CS 7, state i of ii.
[Ref: 61368] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Jedidiah Buxton, A poor Day Labourer: born at Elmton in Derbyshire: who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method: perform'd the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics, by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise, nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him: he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Laid down on album sheet at sides.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. First published 1773.
CS 7, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 64704] £380.00
B. Killingbeck pinx.t. J. Spilsbury fecit.
Laid down on album sheet at sides.
A half-length portrait of Jedediah Buxton (1707-72) an illiterate farm labourer of Elmton, Derbyshire, whose ability as a mental calculator was tested by the Royal Society after he walked to London in 1754. First published 1773.
CS 7, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 64704] £380.00