拍品 917
  • 917

TABLES - COMRIE. 12 WORKS IN 14 VOLUMES

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200 - 300 GBP
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描述

  • A collection of 12 works in 14 volumes, comprising:
i. Comrie, Leslie John (1893-1950). On the construction of tables by interpolation [offprint from:] Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 88, no. 6. [London: Priestley & Weale, 1928], one plate, original wrappers (inscribed "JT Forell | e dono auctoris"), [T&W C144; Origins of Cyberspace 258], some soilingii. Comrie, L.J. "On the construction of tables by interpolation" [within Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 88, No. 6]. [London: Priestley & Weale, 1928], one plate, disbound, [T&W C144]iii. Comrie, L.J. Mathematical tables [offprint from British Astronomical Handbook for 1929]. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1929, original wrappers, [T&W C150; Origins of Cyberspace 261], some soiling and tears to wrappersiv. Comrie, L.J. Mathematical tables [offprint from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 92, No. 4]. Edinburgh: Neill & Co., 1932, original wrappers, [T&W C151; Origins of Cyberspace 264], slight soilingv. Comrie, L.J. Four-figure tables of the natural and logarithmic trigonometrical functions with the argument in time. London: by the author, 1931, first edition, original wrappers, [T&W C146], some browning and creasesvi. Milne-Thomson, Louis Melville (1891-1974) and Comrie, L.J. Standard four-figure mathematical tables... Edition B with negative characteristics in the logarithms. London: Macmillan, 1931, first edition, original cloth, [T&W M107], library stamps, binding worn with upper joint splitvii. [Comrie, L.J.]. Interpolation and allied tables. London: HMSO, 1942, second edition, original wrappers, [T&W C148], some soiling to wrappersviii. Comrie, L.J., ed. Barlow’s tables of squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, and reciprocals... London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1944, fourth edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, [T&W C161], ink stampsix. Comrie, L.J. Chambers’s shorter six-figure mathematical tables. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1955, first edition, original cloth, [T&W C141], library stamps, binding worn with joints splittingx. Comrie, L.J. Chamber’s four-figure mathematical tables. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1947, first edition, cloth-backed boards, [T&W C140], library stampsxi.-xii. Comrie, L.J. Chambers’s six-figure mathematical tables... Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1948-49, 2 volumes, first edition, original cloth, dust-jackets, [T&W C142], adhesive tape repairs and soiling to dust-jacketsxiii-xiv. Comrie, L.J. Chambers’s six-figure mathematical tables... Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1948-49, 2 volumes, first edition, original cloth, [T&W C142], library stamps, some tears and loss to bindingsmostly small 4to, occasional browning, generally worn

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