Hill, John; Arithmetick both in the Theory and Practice, made plain and easie in all the common & useful rules, both in whole numbers, & fractions, vulgar & decimal....with a preface by Mr. Humphrey Ditton, Third Edition; with the addition of several algebraical equations. London, D. Midwinter, 1722. Quarto, pp. 378, 55 tables of logarithams.

The volume is complete and in a contemporary paneled calf with raised spine bands, spine titles faded, inked math computations within text, inked signature of George Turnbull with 1794 date on verso of title page, very good.
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A rare early Arithmetick. In Ditton's recommendation he says : "The Author has, in this Treatise, gone much beyond the bounds, which the common writers of this Science use to advance to. And tho' many of his practices he delivers, ex. gr. The making of LOGARITHMS, INTEREST, and COMBINATIONS OF QUANTITIES, are to be done with greater Advantage and Exactness by the help of Superior Methods, as ALGEBRA, &. Yet take him purely as an Arithmetician, and he has not only done more, and much better than WINGATE, COCKER, LEYBOURN, or any other writer in our tongue; but indeed all that can be done by Arithmetick:.." Little is known about the author, but his work which was originally published in 1713 was to go through many editions and became a valuable early mathematics text.